The other day, I foolishly left my tiny mp3 player where a certain lady could get her hands on it. As I was travelling to work the following morning, imagine my horror to find the headphones blaring out the following ignoble play list:

"Jet" by Wings

"How Soon Is Now?" not the Smiths original, but a cover version by those desperate attention seekers Tatu (rendering the central son/sun pun redundant, I might add... grrr...)

"Indestructible" by Alicia's Attic, which has a good chorus hook, but that's about it...

"You're my hero" or whatever, by Mariah Carey, the "Why Pop is Bad" Poster Child...

"Trouble" by Shampoo. Yay!

"It must have been love..." by Roxette AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Get it out of my head!

And last, but by no means least: "Achy Breaky Heart"


Have you had a similar experience, and what was playing instead of your usual choice?


(It's not as if she doesn't have a giant 40GB brick of her own, "But that's too difficult to find what I want to listen to, and yours was just sitting there...")

I've never had this experience, and don't expect to; my music is sacrosanct. Nobody in my household would DARE touch my mp3 player.

As to player size, I agree completely. I must be one of the three people on the planet that doesn't own an iPod. My little bitty Sony with 1 GB that runs on 1 AAA battery for 70 hours does it just fine for me.
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I can't say that i've ever had any problems with people putting -music- on my PMP-140 (40GB hard disk player). Technicians at my old school borrowed it to transfer PC images across, and I regularly set up a music trade ring among my friends with similar devices - one of them thought it would be funny to put pornography on there. And i'm not talking about the Cure album, either...

Personally, I have an mp3-cd player, basically, plays data cds with mp3s on them...As I'm the only one in the house with a cd burner, it hasn't happened yet

I'd love to get an iPod, but I can't afford one

I'm doing just fine with my MuVo 256mb player. As my MP3 collection wouldn't fit onto a 60GB player, I don't see any need to buy such a big, bulky and expensive device, when you get a MuVo and a 120 gb player for a little more than 100$...

I don't have an MP3 player, as I don't really have anywhere I'd use it right now. But, I am the only one with a working CD burner, so occasionally, my husband plugs his external HD into my laptop to make mix CDs or he borrows the laptop to copy CDs for other people. So occasionally, I'll find stuff on here I wasn't aware of, like Leonard Nemoy singing "If I Had a Hammer".

Occassionally I'll lend my Mp3 player to my brother and he fills it up with either rock or blues or jazz. I always remember to refill it with my own music, but even if I forget, I don't mind listening to the stuff he has on.

"Achy Breaky Heart?" And you lived to tell the tale? You brave, brave man.

I don't have an Mp3 player, but my roommate used to pop her CDs into my stereo in college. Which is fine, until, unawares, I would put it on shuffle, and get a random N'Sync song. Now, the closest thing to music shock I get is when I have my Yahoo Launch station going at work, and it plays something totally alien. "This matched my song preferences? LIES!"

I also have a tendency to accidentally pop a wrong song on the CDs I burn. I never know how it gets there either. (Gnomes are my current theory.) The last time this happened, there was a random Bauhaus song on an all Pillows CD. One minute it's J-rock, and the next, Bella Lugosi is dead.

My word.

Fortunately, nobody else in my house is even capable of switching a computer on, much less upload their drivel onto my beloved 30Gb brick... though in fairness it'd probably do me a favour if they did, since I can't be bothered right now and it's languishing in a drawer with only about 400 songs on it.

Ergh... *sputters a bit* I... agh... *spews a little* Th-that was my favorite song when I was seven.

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I don't have a portable mp3 player, but I have a computer that a few of my roommates use every now and then. Every now and then, I'd find a new file in my mp3 directory, usually something by Papa Roach, Howie Day, 3 Doors Down, or R. Kelly. I know *I* sure didn't download those! :p

I'm not too anal about finding terrible music on my computer, and at least nobody messes with my playlists. When I move out and have a place of my own, I'm definitely going to go through my directories and clean out any unwanted songs. I guess that would also be a good opportunity to reorganise my directories, create a consistent file naming system, and remove duplicate files.

Yeesh, my hard drive looks like my bedroom. :b

As an epilogue to the original tale, I bought 3 new cds to burn on Sunday, one of which was a Sisters of Mercy compilation (replacing my old worn copy).

Achey, who loves poking through new purchases, studied the back cover for a full minute, before proposing the perplexing question: "I can't find Stay in this list; wasn't that their big hit?"

Yes, indeed it was... for Shakespeare's Sister.



(PS "I....have....a hammer: it's a hammer... of justice" All overr thiis laaaaannd....)

i have some random thing against ipods.. i relly just don't like them. Besides, I don't see the point of getting one when I can easily fit 200+ songs on a CD and listen to that. I think thats more than enough songs for the amount of time that I usually use my CD player for. Eve then, its easy to burn a second CD of songs just in case.

I remember once when I was listening to my Yahoo launch station something must've gone wrong because my station suddenly got the notion in its head that it refused to play Bauhaus and would much rather play R&B, rap, bluegrass, hip hop, and anything worthy of making me insane. And It refused to stop... for over 3 hours. There was much song blocking and much love for itunes in that horrible day.

I don't have nothing fancy, I just have a regular CD player. I don't have an ipod or anything like that, because I don't like to follow the fashion trends. Everyone has one now and I like to be different. There is also the fact I don't have that kind of money to blow, but I like my first reason better. (:

And what does this have to do with the original question in the thread? If you don't actually have something to contribute, refrain from clicking "Add Reply".