Tag Archives: Music Geek

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 5 – All Roads Lead to the Internet

August 28, 2012 Trev

With the advent of the iPod and iTunes, the internet was playing an increasingly vital role in our media consumption. We were no longer tied to brick and mortar stores to purchase and discover new music, we merely had to think about a band we liked,punchthatinformation into www.google.com and travel (more…) Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 4

August 23, 2012 Trev

The iPod also brought with it another amazing feature which is both a pro and a con. It brought with it iTunes which essentially put the local record shop in your home, no longer did you have to visit Championship Vinyl (or other local record shop),you'djustneed to fire up your (more…) Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 3

August 20, 2012 Trev

I remember seeing ads for MP3 players and the iPod and not really cluing into what Creative and Apple were hoping to accomplish initially. "Why would you ever want to move away from this relatively stable media format?" (by this time, anti-skip wasassistingthemusic geeks in a big way) I thought (more…) Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 2

August 17, 2012 Trev

Compact Discs were shiny, fancy and new, and proved to bring along with them a new slew of headaches. No more pencils in spokes, no more worrying about the Boom Box's appetite for iron oxidized plastic film, but now you had to be something of a bombspecialist,moveto fast, step (more…) Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 1

August 14, 2012 Trev

Music Geeks much like Geek Culture in general have experienced a boom with the advent of the Internet, but it wasn't always this way. In stopping to think about what I used to haul around with me, it's almost silly in retrospect, mind you at leastIwasn'thauling around a milk crate. (more…) Read More