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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't yet gotten a car, nor do I plan to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because if you can operate without one, life is so much better.

Cars ruin cities.

[–] Persen -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But if a city is already ruined or you live in a village without a bus station, it makes travel a lot easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Sounds like you can't really operate without one. :(

That sucks. I'm sorry.

[–] Persen 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, I won't enjoy loosing ~1060€ for the license, but I feel like I would at least enjoy driving a car.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My first car was the cheapest salvage title I could find, broken tape deck and radio stuck on one channel. Based on era, the first song was probably something by Nickelback.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Your comment just kept getting worse. I love it.

[–] TehBamski 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Please tell us that you have moved on to a better car. That was a painful read hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha, literally sitting by my 2012 Toyota Camry on this Friday night waiting for the AC cleaner to do its thing. I loaned it to someone while I was out of town for a couple weeks and I got it back smelling of mold and mildew. I can't drive it a mile without feeling ill. Tomorrow I will scrub and vacuum the interior. This "someone" has already moved to my blacklist.

So an upgrade from my high school car? Yes. A good car? Not really.

In the spirit of OPs question, and very appropriate to my situation, I'm listening to C'est la Vie by The Weathers.

[–] Persen 0 points 2 months ago

If you aren't listening to C'est la Vie by Bewitched, you are good, but the Sabrina (animated) theme song is actually decent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Dire Straits - Money for Nothing. It was on a cassette in my parents car. Not what I normally listen to, but it's an alright song, and after having had to endure whatever my parents decided to listen to, that was what I decided to turn up on my first drive alone.

I think the first thing I brought into the car with the intent to listen to it while driving was Dream Theater - Awake, freshly recorded from CD onto tape

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't remember after my first car. But I got a really big raise at work one year and bought the new Malibu the year it was redesigned. Black with leather interior. First song played:

Radar Love by Golden Earring

It's a great fucking song to drive too fast to.

[–] nicgentile 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] technojamin 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Heeell yes! I used to blast Italics all the time. It’s from that wonderful music era of my life from 2014-2016 where I exclusively found music on SoundCloud.

[–] nicgentile 2 points 2 months ago

You are my people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What a game

[–] BugleFingers 4 points 3 months ago

Probably something by the RHCP, but I cannot remember properly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Must have been Lee Scratch Perry. Not a song, a handful of tapes played over and over and.

[–] multifariace 4 points 3 months ago

I have never been happy about driving. I probably to turned the radio on and listen to whatever was playing on the local station. Might have been Champaigne with Chris Rock.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Back in the early 2000s I bought my first own car. It had a radio with cassatte. I had a mixtape that I carried around, with a walkman (albeit not the original one from Sony). When I drove the car home - stil with temporary number plates, because I needed to register the car to my name - the song Turn The Page played a few minutes into the drive. I will always associate this song with that particular event.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I stuck Oracular Spectacular by MGMT into the CD player of my Miata (second car) when I bought it. I bought it in the winter when I couldn't drive it so the album always brings me back to working on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Eve 6 - "Open Road Song"

[–] Angry_Autist 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

REM's Drive, I know it's trite but I actually liked Blossom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] Persen 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not yet there, but it will probably be something on the radio, as I don't have any tapes (which is the only thing it supports). Could I still buy them anywhere?

[–] isyasad 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I see a lot of tapes at thrift stores or even antique stores. You could also get a Bluetooth or AUX tape adapter which are conceptually very cool

[–] Persen 1 points 2 months ago

Wow, thanks. I'm kind off sceptical of the aliexpress adapters and I don't even know if the tape player even works. I might test it with some kind of religious tape from my grandma.

[–] nicgentile 2 points 2 months ago
[–] Shard 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I don't remember the first song I played, but I remember blasting Eminem's "Without Me" at full volume with my new 12-inch subwoofer from Walmart. An officer pulled up next to me and my teenage self just about shit a brick. He just started nodding to the beat and drove off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I played "Like a River" to try out the sound system in a car I got recently. Does that count?

[–] nicgentile 1 points 3 months ago

Absolutely.

[–] TehBamski 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that from Ocie Elliott?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Bishop Briggs

[–] polarpear11 1 points 2 months ago

It was probably something by The Used or MCR. What a time to be alive in 2008.