The way to remain current with songs from your home country even if you've been stuck in the USA for the last 10 years

How you doing? I am a Russki young man who came to America searching for better life. Back in Russia I have never been rich, not even close to middle class, I was dirt poor. Not mepersonally, per-say, but my family. In Russia young adults didn't need money back when I was growing up, and therefore we needed to find ways to make money. Different schemes, mostly something much like alcoholics asking neighbors to get a few bucks for their communal vodka bottle. This is practically the same, we would go around searching for ways to earn a few quick bucks to go buy a loaf of bread. We're always hungry. .

That place really reminds me of home. It's loud, it's dirty, it's full of Russian language, people are rude, well, just a normal Russian city bliss. I've spend quite a whole lot of money there, mostly seeing Russian restaurants and music and books stores.

I like music, and I really like to read books. But as it happens recently it's easy to find Russian literature on Kindle. And so I stopped buying hard copy books, plus I don't really have much space in my house, my wife is nearly a hoarder, so I do everything possible not to contribute to this, including avoiding buying new things I do not really need laying around the home, as I have nowhere to put it... Stacks of books seems smart first couple of months, then they only looked sad, until I put them into garage, where there is still some space left for my own things. .


But music, - music differs. My job involves a great deal of driving, so I listen to tons of music. And as an old Russian immigrant, I have not learned to like any new music I found here in the USA. . I simply don't like rap, hip hop, rock, metal and pop. And all of the new age things that kids like to dance to. . I really love old Russian music, also the jail type songs that are extremely specific to Russian music world. They are still popular there after 20 years I have been away, and they are not something that gets on CDs, - largely tapes in automobiles, and Youtube videos. Yes, they put everything on Youtube nowadays. And so I spend hours using Youtube playing music when I am back home on day off or just after work.

And so after some time I have created a nice long playlist of over 300 songs that I really love. Having this treasure on repeat night and day, I have no problem getting used to songs, since there's 300 songs, that is a lot. But then when I want to hear them in my car, I don't have any world wide web to spare, I want it for driving, for navigation. So I do the preparation at home. I have in the middle of the list today, I list a few songs from Youtube into mp3 files, and then I burn those mp3s on a CD with my notebook, and then I bring CD to the car and listen. This website I found, it can take Youtube playlist and print out all the songs in it, and every song can be subsequently converted to mp3 and saved to my home computer. Sometimes I make mistake and only make data CD, that won't play in my previous car stereo. However, while audio is recorded - it is amazing how technology works, I don't need to be online, I don't require any gadgets to play mp3, I just insert CD into my car stereo and here the music out of Russia is booming in the middle of Manhattan, when I get there while driving around.

It's easy and cheap to copy videos from Youtube as mp3 and you can place them on your Smartphone. I saw a friend of mine attached his telephone to car stereo, and it was playing very good excellent sound, just in 2 seconds. He was also able to flow Pandora radio and Spotify, so it is not even needing too fast of Internet for this. . But of course I will take care to use free wifi.
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