Office Supplies

The Blank CD

See the Leo horoscope? I don’t recall, 50 for $4.99. A hundred for $9.99, but that was with a coupon, I thought. Back some years ago.

It’s been more than a year since I’ve bought a spindle of blank media. The MP3 format is so commonplace now, as an accepted standard, the hardest part of understanding that someone has to email me in order to get that file.

What amazes me are the number of “professional cohorts” who are unwilling to invest in any technology to make this happen. Most tablets and phones can do that, now.

On any i-thing, there’s an app, while I paid for one, there are free ones that work just as well.

I can easily recall, Office Store (Depot, Max, Staples) had a hundred shrink-wrapped blank CDs for just under ten bucks. That’s ten cents per disk.

I was a little shocked, cruising the office store, other afternoon, looking for a cable for the computer, I glanced at the stacks of blank media.

At the office store, the cheapest CDs were around $20 for a stack of hundred. Still, that’s about 20 cents a disk, right? While lacking the appeal of vinyl, the digital versions tend to be more durable, in an odd way.

Coming in from Austin, I stopped because I knew I had at least one client who preferred a CD. I don’t do many of those. Not any more.

Think I paid close to seven bucks for a set of ten, blank CDs, but they had sleeves, and I that should last another year, at this rate.