CD's

As MP3's became more prominent, many people thought that buying CD's was useless. Most people would rather rip something off of the internet for free than shell out a few dollars for a CD. In my case, I prefer having the physical copy of the CD instead of some bootlegged album with decent quality. I choose to use CD's still due to their reliability and it's basically a 2-in-1 deal. You can just pop the CD into your computer/laptop and import the CD into your iTunes library, giving you a digital copy of the album as well. I also prefer CD's due to the fact that my car stereo can only use CD's. Throughout my years of growing up, I was vastly interested in collecting CD's. I probably have well over a hundred now. My collection has a wide taste of genres, it goes all the way from hardcore punk bands like Minor Threat and Bad Brains, to rap artists such as Tyler, the Creator and Earl Sweatshirt. When I was younger, I was realty into punk/rock bands and that was the only genre I would listen to. Basically if it wasn't punk, I wouldn't listen to it. My first few CD's were bands like blink-182, Sum-41,and Box Car Racer. Although these bands are more-so labeled as "pop-punk," they allowed me to dive deeper into the punk genre. I would later be introduced to bands such as NOFX, Screeching Weasels, Descendents, the Misfits, the Ramones, and other bands along those lines. As I got older, I started to expand my music taste. I was so close-minded as a child growing up and I would bash on music that wasn't heavy or fast. A few years ago, I stumbled across a hip-hop collective known as Odd Future. This was a group that mostly consisted of Tyler the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Hodgy Beats, Left Brain, Mike G, Domo Genesis, Frank Ocean, Taco, Syd The Kid, and Jasper the Dolphin. What really got me to start listening to them was Tyler and Hodgy's appearance on Jimmy Fallon, where they both performed the song "Sandwitches" off of Tyler's album Goblin. The energy that they gave off was phenomenal, Tyler was running around and yelling, and it honestly opened up my mind about music. I have all of Tyler, the Creator's albums on CD, as well as all of Earl Sweatshirt. The most recent album that I bought a physical copy of was Weezer's first album, for around $5.

These are just a number of albums that I own in my possession.