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How to stay current with the music of your country of origin even if you've been stuck in the USA for the last 10 years

How are you getting on? I am a Russki boy who came to America in search of a better lifestyle. I was extremely poor back in Russia. I wasn't close to the middle class, and I never had a lot of money. My family and not me per se. The young people of Russia weren't dependent on money when they were growing up. So we were forced of finding ways to earn our own money. There are a lot of schemes that resemble alcohol users soliciting money from their neighbors to buy their vodka bottles. The idea is very similar. We'd come up with ways to make a few bucks and even buy bread. We would always be hungry.
So I finally made it to America, had been here for a few months and have seen the majority of the East Coast from Boston all the way down to Miami and Key West and all the way to the middle of the states. It is far from New York, Brooklyn and Brighton Beach. That place really reminds me of home. It's noisy, filthy, it's full of Russian spoken words, people are rude, well it's a typical Russian city life. There are numerous Russian bars, restaurants, and book stores I've invested a lot of money at.
Music is my obsession, but books are my absolute favorite. In the end, it's simple to locate Russian literature via Kindle. And so I stopped purchasing books in hard copies, plus I don't really have any space in my house, my wife is a bit of a hoarder, so I try my best not to contribute to it by not buying new things which I don't actually need laying in the house, since I don't have a place for it... Stacks of books looks intelligent first few months, after that they only looked sad, until I put them in garage, which has plenty of space left to store my things..
But music, - music is different. Music is my favourite thing to listen to. My job requires me to drive often, so I listen to tons of music. Even though I'm a Russian-born immigrant, I don't like American music. I simply don't like rap, hip hop, rock, metal and pop. And all the new age stuff that kids love to dance to. I am in love with Russian music, and songs written in jail. They're still very popular in Russia even after 20 years. The internet is flooded with everything on Youtube these days. When I return home after work, I spend hours listening to Youtube music.
I have a good playlist of 300 songs that I love. With this playlist playing in my head all day and night I'm having no trouble in getting used to music because there's 300 songs. That's a lot. However, when I need the songs to be played in my car, I don't always have access to the internet. I'm required to have it in order to drive, and for navigation. Therefore, I prepare at home. I'm in the middle of the line, I record a few songs from Youtube to mp3 files and then burn those mp3s onto a CD with my laptop, and then I bring CD to the car to listen. This website that I discovered that can download a Youtube playlist and print out all the songs in it. Each song is then converted to mp3 and saved to my home computer. Then, you can convert the mp3 to an audio disc. Sometimes I make mistake and make a data CDs that don't play in my old car stereo. The quality of the recorded audio is incredible. I don’t need any internet to play mp3 music. I simply insert the CDs into my car stereo slot. When I get to Manhattan the music from Russia can be heard booming.
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It's easy to download videos on Youtube and save the videos as mp3 files. You can then put them on your Smartphone. My friend connected his phone to the car stereo and it started playing top quality sound in just 2 seconds. Also, it was possible to stream Spotify and Pandora radio, which means you don't need too much internet. I think this is the next thing I'll try. But, I'll make sure not to utilize the wifi for free.



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