Quote Originally Posted by Lawrence001 View Post
I've heard of vinyl rips long before I've ever seen the term needle drop used, I'm convinced in this context it's quite recent phrase, and one that makes no sense.

Anyway I must go and do a few more laser drops tonight, I've still got several thousand CDs to rip.
It's not recent but I agree it makes no sense. But then neither does 'ripping' given we already had the word 'copy'.

Although I still 'tape' tv shows even though I've not used a VCR to do that in 20 years.