{"id":8439,"date":"2015-11-29T10:33:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T10:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=8439"},"modified":"2021-12-06T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:08:13","slug":"well-somethings-lost-and-somethings-gained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=8439","title":{"rendered":"Well &#8230; Something&#8217;s Lost, and Something&#8217;s Gained &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n20-30 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) &#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.\n\nNow it&#8217;s a case of seeing the announcement of album launch on facebook &#8230; launch Spotify &#8230; click-click-click &#8230; and am listening to it.\n\nWell &#8230; something&#8217;s lost, but something&#8217;s gained.\n\n\n\nThe Corrs&#8217; new album is out.\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/z-1-320x320.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: White Light\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/1JifWi3bCvGr7MsdHYumjD?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?tag=entertainment\">#entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Originally created with EverNote at 20151129T103316Z<\/i><\/p>\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":8780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[205],"class_list":["post-8439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439","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=8439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8439\/revisions\/8781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}