Sucker-punched in the earphone department

Love Music? Love your iPod, the very one that cost an obscene amount? Well like many people, the Daily Red is the same way but for all you music lovers out there don’t think that the prices end at iTunes vouchers and buying the iPod itself, far from it, there is also the earphones.

I suppose you could say that the iPod is a like a pet really, it has ongoing costs and to satisfy you, and keep the rest of the bus from judging your distinct style of music, earphones are a necessity.

But wherein lays the irony? It comes from the short life span of earphones, we all have seen this happen, you buy a pair, whether cheap or as expensive as an iPod, first, a crackling noise comes about, second, little electric shocks nibble at your ear; like the electronic version of tics, and thirdly one earphone carks it, and for the budget conscious out there, this is the moment we all realise our true potential as... Human antennas; constantly moving around to get another hit of music, of our favourite tunes... then they finally die.

The life of an earphone is an arduous one, a short one and one that is a slave to present music to please the ear.

For too long have I seen many a good earphone go, cheap ones, expensive ones and even Apple ones?

All of which cause a sense of annoyance, of being plainly pissed off, because if you’re like me, you probably bought them in the last couple of days.

I hate it; I truly do, to find a good set of earphones is about as possible as finding a unicorn down the street.

I finally find a good pair and what happens? They prematurely die, too young and far too soon for my liking, and you realise its bad when the earphones can’t even play “only the good die young” to commiserate their life, a life devoted to giving you pleasure.

But here’s another thing, the price. Has anyone seen the prices, earphones are the new staple to have the new designers heck even lady gaga has endorsed a pair that retail for about 80 to 100 bucks a pop.

Now if earphones have such a lifespan, why fork out the dosh when they are going to be pushing up the daisies so very soon?

And I bet you all ten bucks that it’s a moneymaking scheme, the fall of earphones; you see once upon a time they used to be of a quality, and nowadays when moneymaking in music is declining due to piracy and “alternatively acquired” materials, how else to make money but to reduce the quality of earphones hence making us buy more, and more.

It’s a roundabout of emotion, being recycled over and over nothing pisses me off more than walking the dog in silence, and I’m sure many of you will agree do you really want to be going to the gym without music?

But on a positive note and not to end this article sounding like a whinging pom because I’d hate to do that to you all, dear readers,  at least with the range of earphones out there by this time next month I would have tried nearly all of them, and who said taste-testing for the ears was bad for you?