okay what kind of music do you like
well i um several years ago a radio broke in my car and i never i got out of the habit of listening to the radio and so
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i haven't been listening i i used to just listen to the rock stations but um lately i have been going back to classical music i don't really know what
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too many of the most popular songs are unless you know they're in the the news or something but um so i tend to listen to some of the older
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songs that were popular back when i was paying attention and then i like some classical music and some of the
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pieces that have been around a while i haven't paid much attention to most of the current music what about you
um i listen i listen to a wide variety of music sometimes i'll turn on the classical music sometimes i'll listen to jazz uh every now and then country and western um
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i'll listen to some of the rock stations i also like the uh the the classic rock stations that play the older more mellow type
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rock music um some of the some of the rock stations now are the i guess the top forty stations or whatever they just it really gets on my nerves because they play so many commercials and
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sometimes the deejays are just kind of annoying and irritating and uh it gets kind of old and they play the same songs over and over and i just get kind of tired of all that
that's true
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so lots of times i'll just play cassettes instead of listening to the radio actually but uh most of my cassettes i guess i don't i don't like hard rock
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um i have some some rock and some jazz and couple of maybe one or two country and western some uh
oh i can't believe i can't think of his name um Garth Brooks i have a couple of his tapes
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and um
but it's mainly it's mainly just the the light rock type stuff
yes i don't i never liked any of the heavy metal music i never really listened to it because i you know i prefer to have more i guess an established pattern of
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music to listen to but and i back a long time ago when the rap music first came out it was kind of a novelty and i listened to some of it but i you know now that there's just a million rap groups and
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and uh they try to tend to try to do outdo each other with raciness i think and
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so i you know i'm not attracted to that at all but um it made a big difference in my life not to have a radio that was a easy access and so now that i do have one i just don't automatically turn it on
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unless there's something i'm particularly listening to but you know if you go two or three years without having that what i got the most exposure to
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it really changed my lifestyle and kept me from
just having a you know easy access to current music and so i did like i say tend to go back to
albums and cassettes and things that i had already had purchased but we don't have a CD yet do you
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no i don't
i sure don't because i have so many albums and cassettes i feel like gosh i have to go out and buy a CD player and then start collecting CDs and it just i haven't gotten around to doing it yet
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yeah i i kind of decided to wait until it it was around a while it was kind of like remember when personal calculators first came out and they were really really expensive and then now you can get one for two or three dollars
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just like VCRs too yeah i thought of that too that if i wait it'll get a lot less expensive and i can do without it for a while
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sure and also they get better quality with and they learn to have more features and things and without and making them less expensive so we're kind of waiting
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to like uh now you know and the price of cassettes has gone down because CDs are so popular so
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that's and a CD is a lot more expensive than a cassette ever was too right now i think
i haven't even priced them i guess they must be
they're somewhere between ten and fifteen dollars a piece
oh really that is awful
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i bought some at Christmas time for friends of mine that have CD players i thought my gosh now i know another reason why i'm not going to get a CD player for a while
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take our time well i can't imagine um you can't record on them and so
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they won't be as functional as like a cassette player where if you heard something
you could record it you know uh if you have i guess if you wanted to record something to play out in your car or something that you'd heard or that you owned an album of so CDs won't be nearly as handy
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yeah see i've got a on my stereo i've got a a uh turntable and then i've got a dual cassette so i can record off other cassettes
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but i never realized you couldn't record onto CD i just never really thought about it because i haven't really looked into it very much i don't have one and and i've never really looked at one very closely but that that would be inconvenient because i have a cassette player in my car now i guess
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you know one of these days when i get a new car maybe i guess all of them probably will have CDs players by then but uh i'm not planning on doing that for a while i just got mine paid off so i'm going to stick with the cassettes and and uh you know until
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until they now my sister my younger sister has a she does have a CD player that she got for Christmas and she's got the the cassette so she can record off cassettes onto CDs i mean i'm sorry other way around off CDs onto cassettes um
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well that's good
so i can record some things from her and you know get cassettes and record off other ones or off the radio if i want to but
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but um i just haven't gone to CD yet
why we haven't either but we you know we like the
the idea of having great um extra quality you know in your music and things but but i'm satisfied to just have what i've been used to not have to think about the great financial
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sacrifice that that would be to suddenly try to switch over to all CDs or something but i know one thing that has colored my music choice is
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when we had children um i really started to think about what kind of television programs i was watching and what kind of music i was listening to and activities because um you know i just didn't want them to be exposed to
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a lot of things and a lot of the lot of the songs have some lyrics that um i just wasn't pleased with you know
oh yeah and they get worse and worse too
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our taste there to make uh you know our children not be exposed to so many negative negative things so early in life
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well that's amazing how i used to when i was in college i used to have the stereo on all the time or i had on MTV or something but ever since i've been out of college
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i guess over the last several years
i listen to the stereo less and less now i will turn on i've got a small jam box in my bathroom i'll turn that on while i'm in the shower and while i'm getting ready because there's really not much else i can do and it's kind of boring standing there putting on makeup so i'll turn the radio on and
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and then i listen to it when i'm in the car driving to work because again there's you know there's nothing else going on i might as well listen to the radio while i'm driving to work but other than that i've i really don't
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i don't listen to the radio or even to my albums or cassettes or anything very often anymore i guess i'm just too busy doing other things that it's
too much trouble to get up and go decide what i want to listen to and put it on the on the turntable i don't know i just don't don't bother to do it very much anymore
yes i know what you mean i i know my husband he um
plays an instrument and he played in the band when he was in college and in high school and so he has a lot of all different kinds of music and he goes out of his way to play marching band music or
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like you say jazz or classical to the children to to give them some exposure to different kinds of music and i think that's really good because they're learning to like all different kinds and
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that's good what instrument does he play
he plays the it's a euphonium it's like a small
a really small not a tuba but
i think it's hard to explain i never had known anyone to play one before but it's kind of like a small small tuba but it's not the kind that sits up on your shoulder
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uh-huh i've never heard of that
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but it's a cross between a tuba and and an and you know a horn it's a brass instrument
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so he plays that and and a little bit of piano and
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but he has some real fond memories of marching band and
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concert band type
activities and he thinks that'd be good for the kids
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so i was i was a real good piano player but then i got interested in a lot of other things and i got real involved in many things and
and now i don't have a piano in my apartment or anything i could sit back down and play a few things but not like i used to be able to it's kind of sad that i've let that slip away
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and i took guitar lessons i think for one or two years and uh
that was about the same time i was taking piano and then i got too busy in high school to really keep up with it between homework
