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I grew up in the late 90s through the 00s.

CDs was my primary method.

Stuck in car with parents

Megaupload/limewire

I didn't get a CD player until my senior year in high school, so mostly tapes

Pirating off MP3 sharing sites/forums

usually got music files in the worst quality possible but to me that was acceptable so long as I can listen to the music I wanted to listen

I had an MP3 player

i didnt

Primarily from a combo of my dads physical collection, the radio, and MTV until I was old enough that I started to build my own physical collection. My dad would record his music onto blank tapes for me to listen to in my room.

A lot of radio listening in my room and people that are younger dont appreciate how influential and how big MTV really was when it started and was in its prime. Especially for a kid like me in the Midwest in the middle of cornfields and cow pastures who could basically only hear Rock and country on the radio.

To get exposed to headbangers ball, 120 minutes, Yo MTV raps and so much more was a big thing. So yeah it was a huge part of my life that overtook the radio.

If we're counting "consume" as music I had direct control over then that was mostly on portable CD players. In the car though, it was either cassettes my mom played or the radio.

radio mostly, but also cassettes, because my family did those mail order catalogue deals a few times to get a dozen cassettes or 20 cassettes or whatever for a low price.

With a fork

Anyone ever have one of those electric toothbrushes as a kid that plays music when you put it in your mouth

Cassettes, radio, MTV

Cassettes were probably used more often than anything else though.

Downloaded music for the most part, though I did have a CD player.

CDs but I used a CDRW

Radio and casettes. I had a walkman as a kid but I never did own one of those portable cd players that was popular in my teenage years.

Also MTV. Definitely MTV. MTV was to teens in the 80s and 90s what adult swim was to teens in the 2000s.

There was no primary method.

Computer, cd player/walkman, car using cassettes and/or cds, stereo in my room, stereo in the living room area were all equally used. CDs might have a 1% lead because downloaded stuff all went there.

Streaming? Try MTV

I had a walkman so everything (records and CD's) went on mix tapes

Cassettes, followed by CDs.

I voted cassettes, but we had several vinyl records we listened to a lot when I was little. I still have some of them. I lived through that transition, then CDs came right about when I went to college.

I had older parents, so I listed to a lot of 8-track, vinyl, cassettes, and CDs, the last being in my late childhood.

radio/CDs as a kid. ipod as a teen and most of my life since. youtube mixed in there since late 2000s or whenever they started putting a lot of music on it.

Limewire, itunes/ipod, winamp

Radio, cassettes then CDs. My Dad has LP collection 60+ years old. Some he bought when he was a teenager. When he passes it will be mine I guess

cassette to CD and then was late jumping on MP3 - that took until the 2010s when I had a phone with enough storage. Ill grab a song off YouTube but otherwise dont stream music. Havent listened to the radio for music since 92 or so.

I lived through different phases.

As a kid I had a 45 record player that played children's storybook records and my mom's old music. Later I got a Walkman, boom box, and cassettes. Then CDs.

I think CDs wins since I had more money at that point.

radio

in the car mostly when I was younger, then at work when I got older.

When I was young cassette mostly but some vinyl. Then CDs when I was a bit older, but I did most of my personal listening using my PSP as my mp3 player when I was a teen.

CDs maybe by a small margin, but there was also radio, cassette tapes, vinyl records and of course MTV and ZTV

CDs. Including CD R/W passed around between friends.
A certain amount of dodgy MP3s.
My uncle gave me his vinyl collection and TT when he went all digital.

I had a Sony mini hifi, and a Creative MP3 player.

A combination of CDs, MTV (in the morning before school, I think that block was called Wake Up or Video Wake Up) and garbage-quality downloaded MP3s.

For a while I used my PSP as a music player and then upgraded to a 5th-gen iPod. In 2008 I got an iPhone 3G and from that point on I've used my phones as music players. The only time I deviated from that was when someone at an old job of mine gave me a Sandisk Clip player which I used for a few weeks.

With my ears, but I also prepared a dance.

I consumed music from all sources. First one was cassette tapes.

Moving on from that, how many people here had a Zune?

The Lime

Sound test in video game options menus

Youtube and mp3s (through my iPod nano).

A mix of radio, cassette, and CDs. Then MP3 came out. I was born in 88, so I didnt hear many records.

We always listened to music in the car. My parents randomly had home audio systems and I listened to portable cd players a lot. Then I started listening to music on the computer with headphones.

Vinyl

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of Sunday afternoons. Sitting in front of the fireplace, watching football, arguing with my brother about whose turn it was with the GameBoy, and listening to my dad jamming out on harmonica to Blues Traveler and Pink Floyd and The Beatles...

Radio, records and cassettes back in the 80s.

Radio and CDs - I used AOL Radio pretty frequently

Cassette.

All we hear is _____ Gaga

.flac downloads. As a kid, radio and vinyls my dad had. I'm old as shit though, so I remember the first ipod then Zune etc.

Radio > cds > mp3s

It was mainly a mix of cassette and CD. I think I may have spent more time listening to tapes but they were almost all dubs of CDs, so I said CDs.

CDs.

ugh I'm like waffling back and forth between CDs and digital. I started getting CDs in like... 1998 or 1999, but started using digital outlets in like... 2003 or 2004. So there's a similar amount of time there, and even for some time in high school I was using the radio on this cool CD player my mom bought me... I would just put that on and listen until like 2 AM every night.