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ANN ARBOR, MI—After calling the device "the item single-handedly responsible for the erosion of our nation's social and cultural foundation" for close to a decade, Jason Whiting gave in to social pressures this weekend and bought a cell phone.

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Cell-phone owner Jason Whiting.

The 34-year-old purchased the Motorola 6620 at the Maple Village Shopping Center.

"I got the simplest, most basic calling plan," Whiting said. "I sure as hell wasn't going to get one of those phones that takes pictures. To tell you the truth, I'm not even planning on giving out the number."

Whiting said he was reluctant to accept the "encroachment of technology" into his personal life, and explained that he "[does not] plan on becoming one of those people with cell phones."

"This is for emergencies only," he said. "In case my car stalls on the freeway and I need to call for help, or in the event that I absolutely must get in touch with someone but am away from home."

Whiting first used the phone Sunday night to check movie times for March Of The Penguins.

"In fact, I use it so little that, when I went to the theater, I forgot to turn off the ringer," Whiting said. "When it started ringing, right away I said, 'Who's the jerk with the cell phone?' and I didn't realize it was me. Suffice it to say, I felt very guilty."

"It was my girlfriend, though, so I had to take it," he added.

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Whiting chats on his new phone at a local Marc's Big Boy.

Whiting blamed the incident on the fact that he had changed his ring tone several times that morning, from "Mozart 40" to "Espionage," and then finally to "Sumba."

Anticipating what he called the inevitable "I told you so" speeches from friends and relatives, Whiting insists that his feelings about the cell phone's negative implications for society remain unchanged.

"Cell phones are a part of a terrible trend toward alienation and the breakdown of civil discourse," he said. "It's a fact I made clear when I called in to the NPR talk show I was listening to in the car."

Whiting nonetheless decries overt use of cell phones while driving. "There's nothing more annoying—and alarming—than seeing some maniac in an SUV with one hand on the steering wheel while chatting on his cell," Whiting said. "That's why I went out this afternoon and bought a hands-free headset. I think it's called Blue-something. It's pretty cool."

"I knew this was coming," said Whiting's longtime friend James Patterson, who has known Whiting since his days as a college-radio DJ. "He used to rail against digital music, saying the 'purity' of vinyl could never be reproduced. But once he bought the Velvet Underground box set for 'completism,' it wasn't long before he sold all his LPs on eBay."

Whiting said owning a cell phone doesn't mean that his attitudes about "unnecessary market-driven consumerist gadgetry" have changed.

"I am never getting an MP3 player, no matter what," Whiting said. "Although my girlfriend might buy me one for Christmas this year."

According to the Radio Shack employee who sold Whiting his phone, Whiting returned yesterday to trade his phone in for an upgrade.

Said Whiting of the upgrade: "Cell phones are thinly disguised control devices thrust upon the masses as a pseudo-necessity. But if I'm going to wear a government tracking collar, I might as well be able to play some games on it." "

1/6/2009 6:06:36 PM

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"I knew this was coming," said Whiting's longtime friend James Patterson, who has known Whiting since his days as a college-radio DJ. "He used to rail against digital music, saying the 'purity' of vinyl could never be reproduced."


vinylbandit exposed???????

1/6/2009 6:12:35 PM

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""This is for emergencies only," he said. "In case my car stalls on the freeway and I need to call for help, or in the event that I absolutely must get in touch with someone but am away from home."

Whiting first used the phone Sunday night to check movie times for March Of The Penguins."




[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 6:24 PM. Reason : pwnt ]

1/6/2009 6:21:02 PM

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he's got a point about the digital/vinyl

digital chops the high highs and low lows out

vinyl ftw (or FLACC)

1/6/2009 6:21:54 PM

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"Wow, this guy is a complete sellout. Way to stick to your guns and be a dick for years just to eventually conform and make excuses."


aha

I read the headline and figured it was a story from The Onion

1/6/2009 6:23:11 PM

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please tell me this is from the onion

1/6/2009 6:23:39 PM

Ronny
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"he's got a point about the digital/vinyl

digital chops the high highs and low lows out

vinyl ftw (or FLACC)"

1/6/2009 6:23:41 PM

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march of the penguins??

[OLD]

1/6/2009 6:23:49 PM

Ernie
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Hey Ronny

It's fake, man

Fake news

1/6/2009 6:25:05 PM

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^^Actually vinyl still outperforms all known digital formats in terms of depth and clarity. There's no digital compression involved, straight analog baby. (Before you bring your 'but but it's a lossless format' in here do some research about how to record digitally.)

However it's $Texas to join the party.

1/6/2009 6:25:11 PM

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^^doesnt make the point about audio quality invalid

^what about FLAC from vinyl?

[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on January 6, 2009 at 6:27 PM. Reason : ernie ftw]

1/6/2009 6:25:39 PM

Ernie
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It's FLAC

One C

1/6/2009 6:26:51 PM

Chop
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wow, this guy is an exercise in contradictions

1/6/2009 6:27:23 PM

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"Hey Ronny

It's fake, man

Fake news"

Thanks. I totally didn't realize. GOOD THING YOU TOLD ME AFTER I EDITED MY POST!

1/6/2009 6:28:57 PM

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You would think they would have made the guy older than 34 for a fake story.

1/6/2009 6:29:30 PM

wwwebsurfer
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Here's a quick once-over. I was expecting to have to post detailed answers, but this will suffice

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question487.htm

1/6/2009 6:29:46 PM

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"ITS

A

FAKE"

1/6/2009 6:30:47 PM

Ernie
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"GOOD THING YOU TOLD ME AFTER I EDITED MY POST!"


Nah, I got you before the edit. See my first post.

Sorry, bud

1/6/2009 6:31:38 PM

Ronny
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But you decided to try and call me out on it after I realized it was fake and made an appropriate edit.

1/6/2009 6:34:42 PM

Ernie
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OK, if that makes you feel better about being tricked by a fake news story, then that's what happened.

1/6/2009 6:36:54 PM

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unless you're playing freshly pressed vinyl in a clean room, 96KHz/24bit FLAC is indeed the win

1/6/2009 6:37:34 PM

Ronny
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^^That is what happened.


^I like vinyl, but only because it is tangible. That, and it makes me better than others.

1/6/2009 6:41:18 PM

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i, too, buy records because they make me feel better than people who don't own records

1/6/2009 7:12:36 PM

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