Who listens to CDs?

The ‘Sink Low’ CD single by Powderfinger transports me to Synagogue Nightclub in Adelaide, where I saw the band perform for the first time to a room of about twenty people. I was fifteen at the time and had just discovered Powderfinger after hearing their track played on a surfing program one Sunday morning. The cover of the soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet conjures visions of the vintage Hawaiian shirt I found in a thrift shop and then lost to an ex-boyfriend, while the beats from the brass section in Kim Mazelle’s ‘Young Hearts Run Free’ blast through me. These cases hold more than just music.