Music and CDs

In the same way that a lot of people like vinyls (which I have no real affection for) I quite like a CD. I think they look very good and have a nice aesthetic (think that's the word all the kids of today use) and I like the idea of putting in a CD and letting the music play. Same as how I remember fondly the idea of putting in the Now that's what I call music! into the CD slot in my mum's Nissan Micra.

CDs are not particularly useful when it comes to actually listening to music. I suppose in that way they are similar to vinyls. You need some good equipment (or equipment at least) that is quite expensive to play it, speakers and the like, and then a collection of CDs. When you have a CD in, it's difficult to change the music once you've started - really, you'd just have to listen through an album, with the strong songs and the weak ones too. Also, it's most convenient to listen to it out loud; you don't really use earphones for it.

Compared to how I listen to music at the moment, which is via my phone, by plugging in my earphones (I still use a 3.5mm jack!) and picking the songs in VLC that I want to listen to, it's far less advanced. I can't make a playlist of all of the songs I want from a given artist. I can't go from one classical performance (short things like sonatas) to another immediately. It'd be more cumbersome.

I think there's a certain benefit to this, though. It's hard to tell where I'd be seeking out deliberate suffering for sufferings sake, and just making life hard for myself, or where I would be actually giving myself difficulty that benefits me in a way. I tend to like to make my life difficult.

I think it would be nice to have a little collection, of course. A physical representation of the music that is meaningful to me. So far I have only one CD

• Sofia Sacco's performance of the Shostakovich's 24 preludes and fugues. I saw her performance some of them live and they were very impressive!

Sadly I have no CD player ...