With our upcoming CD-EP set to release this summer, I wanted to create a test DDP master—just to see if it would actually play in a CD player. So, I went digging through my drawers and finally found my old Apple CD burner, buried at the very bottom.
But then came the real challenge: Where do you even buy CD-Rs these days? Ten years ago, you could grab them in bulk at any supermarket. Now? I had to search around for a while. But finally, my order arrived, and the moment I slid that first blank disc into the burner… boom—major flashback!
What didn’t we burn back in the day?! Mix CDs for friends, carefully curated road trip playlists, entire albums, movies, games—you name it! And of course, those MP3 files from… questionable sources. Back then, this was the ultimate thing to do. But today? The whole process feels oddly outdated—and slightly illegal, for some reason.
When was the last time you burned a CD? Or is this just another lost ritual of the past? 
