After a nuclear apocalypse sends humanity back into the Stone Age, your CDs will be useless.
As for the vinyl, you will be able to rig up a turntable, using a bicycle chain mechanism and the tip of a bayonet palm for a stylus.
When some future civilization digs up the relics of the 20th and 21st centuries, the records will still play. The CDs, not likely.
You overestimate the post-apocalypse. LPs and CDs will melt like so much oxygenized rot, leaving partially-burnt sheet music to be performed by travelling troupes, in gaudy rubber tire couture, and played on semi-intact xylophones damaged exclusively by bicycle chain debris, glockenspiels, spanked baby butts, and the ever vaunted mainstay of future music, the mouth twang and the human beatbox. Welcome to the new normal. Anybody up for a half-remembered concert of "Exsultate Justi"?
What LP's survive, will be used in the fire to generate heat or melted to create a temporary roof on something. Anybody even daring to use a bike chain, what precious few remain, will probably be beaten to death.
What LP's survive, will be used in the fire to generate heat or melted to create a temporary roof on something. Anybody even daring to use a bike chain, what precious few remain, will probably be beaten to death.
And it wouldn't be an FSM thread without someone claiming somebody said something that somebody didn't say. He asked for the format to die, not for the score to not be released. It's not like vinyl is the only format.
