As many of your faithful readers know, I was presenting at Digital Hollywood, Spring 07 last week...blogged by Joyce Schwarz, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com. What I didn't tell you was this tale about the blank CD that happened when I stopped at a major chain drugstore on my way home from the conference one night.
psssst this is what a Blank CD from Hitachi really looked like back in 2007....memo to next-gen screenagers.....
There I am in CVS (major drugstore chain out here)...and a mom next to me in another line tells her 10 or 12 year old boy to go get her some blank CDs...The kid squinches up his forehead and says "Blank CDs"? And she says you know -- CDs that you can record on? So the kid not wanting to look like a retard starts heading for an aisle-- any aisle rather than stand next to mom who seems to think he is on another planet...for not understanding her...
He asks -- what aisle are they in...and she says -- over there in aisle 3 -- by the office supplies...paper, ink etc. And he heads over to Aisle 3 -- and he echoes back Aisle 3 right..still sounding clueless to me.
He comes back with a few packs of CDs --a super value pack and the big BONUS pack...mom decides to buy both...and she says-- loudly so everyone can hear her-- I knew you knew what blank CDs were. And the kid -- well the kid says what every kid who has been raised since Napster says ....
"I didn't even know they made these" -- what's a blank CD to a generation that downloads everything....something only mom or dad knows about....
WHAT THE RIAA DOESN"T KNOW ......
What a generation of screenagers we live with ! AMAZING......wonder if the RIAA knows what's on his computer at home????????
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