{"id":16787,"date":"2017-08-05T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16787"},"modified":"2017-08-05T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:09:57","slug":"the-old-school-hardware-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/05\/the-old-school-hardware-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old School Hardware Discount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was looking for Cage the Elephant&#8217;s song &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Rest for the Wicked&#8221; to add to my iPod for workouts because I haven&#8217;t added anything in like six months.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKtsdZs9LJo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And I couldn&#8217;t find it as a single song on Amazon, so I thought I&#8217;d order the CD.  Amazon defaults, when searching for music, to its unlimited streaming feature, but it offered to let me buy the whole album in MP3 form for $9.99.<\/p>\n<p>Or the CD form for $6.99.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cagetheelephant.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Buying the CD, of course, comes with a free AutoRip MP3 version of the album, so I don&#8217;t have to wait the couple days to get the song onto my iPod.<\/p>\n<p>Still, when Amazon even if Amazon discontinued the AutoRip, I&#8217;d still take the cheaper CD version of the album and rip it myself.  Because I&#8217;m old school that way.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like a lot of things are cheaper on physical media these days than digital versions.  Especially if you&#8217;re buying them used in stores, book sales, or garage sales.  Having patience and my own playback equipment saves me a bundle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was looking for Cage the Elephant&#8217;s song &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Rest for the Wicked&#8221; to add to my iPod for workouts because I haven&#8217;t added anything in like six months. And I couldn&#8217;t find it as a single song on Amazon, so I thought I&#8217;d order the CD. Amazon defaults, when searching for music, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16788,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16787\/revisions\/16788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}