Listening to Music

Does anyone else remember buying albums (round disks about 12" wide that contained music)? How about cassette tapes? Wow -wasn't that the coolest innovation ever at the time? You suddenly were not tied to the stereo in your bedroom, or worse, your parent's living room, to listen to your tunes. You had portability to take your cassette player to any room in the house, or a friend's house, plug it in and you were good. MAYBE you were lucky enough to have batteries and then your music could really travel with you. Yes, life was good then! You could even sit by the radio and record your favorite songs onto a cassette...and hope the DJ did not talk over the beginning or ending. You might have to wait a long time to hear that favorite song, but eventually, it would be played. Then...Walkman entered. Your cassettes were REALLY portable. You could easily carry your music with you wherever you went and listen on headphones....but now, now, we really have it made. We have ipods. Some are so small we easily lose them at the bottom of a bookbag, purse, or even a coat pocket. We can download anything we want from the Internet and listen through our headphones, thus ensuring hearing loss at an early age, or through speakers designed to play our ipods in the same way as the old stereo system that sat in our bedroom, or our parent's living room. Hmmmm....the more things change the more they...No, I can't even finish the cliche', but you know you already did in your head. :)