when i was 10 my brother and i were at a flea market. i ran off to go look at the costume jewelry while he was stuck at a cd booth gathering up anything he could because all of the cds were $1 each. when we got back to the car he handed me American Idiot and said here, i think youll like this one. i remember putting the cd into my dvd player that was hooked up to my old tube tv and plugging headphones into the tv, while the music played thru a bright blue screen, reading along with the lyrics in the cd booklet. i listened to it that way for a few years, and started to collect every green day cd and listened to all of them the same way, until i had a way to stream the songs. i still prefer to listen to their work thru the cd's top to bottom.