{"id":3589,"date":"2015-11-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=3589"},"modified":"2021-12-04T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T19:13:20","slug":"20-30-years-ago-a-new-album-launch-would-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=3589","title":{"rendered":"20-30 years ago a new album launch would mean &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">20-30 years ago a new album launch would mean waiting for the local music store to stock it, checking every few days (there was a time when we were <i>months<\/i> behind on international releases) &#8230; waiting for it to come on the radio (the DJ&#8217;s often would import stuff themselves) &#8230; the thrill of finally seeing the album in the store &#8230; choosing the cassette\/disc towards the back so that it was the least handled and less scratched &#8230; buying it followed by the unwrapping and relishing over cover and notes on the way home &#8230; with all the excitement building up to the first listening session.Now it&#8217;s: see announcement of album launch on facebook &#8230; launch Spotify &#8230; click-click-click &#8230; and am listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well something&#8217;s lost, but something&#8217;s gained.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>LINK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/1JifWi3bCvGr7MsdHYumjD\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/9\/90\/WhiteLightAlbumCover1b.jpg\/220px-WhiteLightAlbumCover1b.jpg\" alt=\"White Light (The Corrs album) - Wikipedia\" \/><br \/>\nWhite Light<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This post was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+shahadaabubakar\/posts\/KPkzUU8Q47b\">published<\/a> publicly on <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\">Google+<\/a> at 2015-11-29 18:32:03+0800<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20-30 years ago a new album launch would mean waiting for the local music store to stock it, checking every few days (there was a time when we were months behind on international releases)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6401,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3589\/revisions\/6401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}