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Kanye West says “no more CDs for me”
By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 8 March 2016
One man tweet machine and occasional rapper Kanye West has revealed himself to be the A-nti-dele by officially declaring the compact disc to be dead, and insisting the future will be a single stream of musical goodness.
“I was thinking about not making CDs ever again”, mused West on the tweets yesterday, clarifying that in the future, as well as the present, his new material would be “only streaming”. He then added that the cover-free packaging of the physical release of his 2013 album ‘Yeezus’ was, in fact, “an open casket to CDs”.
And just in case there was any remaining doubt about his intentions, West added “uuuuuuum, so there it is… no more CDs from me”. Though note that that final word on the issue still leaves the door open for West to follow Eminem’s lead and embrace the actual future: aka the cassette. Yay inconvenient formats and dull audio!
