The last few weeks have been so hectic that I forgot about this non-vinyl post. This is a MiniDisc—a format from the early 90s that died a short death in the US. Elsewhere on the world, it took off as a more portable alternative to CDs thanks to MiniDisc Walkman players, but here, it came and went in something like six months. SO, last year, I found a stack of them at a garage sale—but no player—and having no means to actually play them, I stupidly bought them anyway for $2 in total. Since then, I’ve occasionally sold one on Discogs, but they’ve collected dust mostly. HOWEVER, I sold this pristine Mariah Carey one a few weeks ago to an unlikely buyer: Sony. They were trying to be subtle about it and didn’t say they were Sony, but I knew that Madison Ave. mailing address, and since Sony owns Mariah Carey’s label, Columbia, wouldn’t they have one in a closet somewhere? So I had to ask—it turned out the MiniDisc was going to be used for a display in a Sony Electronics showroom, illustrating 40 years of the Walkman, and it was easier to buy one on Discogs than go searching for one internally. The dead technology I picked up for 17¢ is now a museum piece, LOL.
