iPod, THEREFORE I AM......
Before i begin, i've nicked the title from journalist and editor of GQ Dylan Jones' fine book about the iPod and his own lifes' journey of musical discovery. Worth a read. Since the beginning of the '00s, music had increasingly become available as a digital file (or MP3) to be shared, downloaded and played through the internet, and not always legally! This gave unsigned bands another route to an audience that bypassed record companies, and became another way to discover music from throughout the decades without shelling out a fortune on CDs. All of this was fine, but it meant that you either had to burn the files to blank CD's or sit at your PC if you wanted to hear the songs, as there was no way to make them portable. So when i first started downloading songs - almost always singles - from iTunes, it meant that i had to copy them to a CD, then copy the CD to MiniDisc, a time consuming task. When the first iPods came out in 2001 they were way out of my price range