I pirated all mine.
I dubbed mix tapes off the radio in the early 90s and got into burning CDs in the late 90s. I was a cheap ass pirate even back in the day. Also ripped a LOT of my friends CDs to cassette tape. My dad used to buy packs wholesale.
Back in those days you could listen to the record/cassette/cd in the store before you bought it. They would have these headphones you could use.
So it’s not as big of a problem as this meme would make it seem.
The music shop at the mall near me had those headphones but only like 10 albums that were able to demo. And I’m pretty sure the demo was just bits of the songs. I definitely bought plenty of CDs having heard only one track or fewer.
Oh, that sucks. Mine had like some headphones at the counter with a few buttons in the counter itself. And you would just hand the person behind the counter the cd you wanted to listen to and they’d put it in.
But from what I saw on old footage was they just had a line of a few turntables with headphones and you could just listen to the records.
This may have been the mom and pop shops and not the chain shops. Though I don’t know about that.
And there are only 6 tracks, and also the CD was $20.
They are typically 45-60 minutes. Which could be 1 long song, or 20+ short songs.
But you owned it. So you could sell the CD and recoup almost all of your money.
Someone explain this format to me, please. Why is one weird highlighted?
It feels like a result of someone reposting/screencapping and censoring the f-word, then a reposter trying to put it back
Discovery of new music is so much easier now with Spotify/YouTube/etc. In the past you had a slim-to-none chance of coming across a band/artist/album outside your local scene, no matter what the genre. Back then you kind of had to be “in the know” for that to happen.
Spotify maybe, I’ve never used it. And Google Play music used to be the best for this, but YouTube music has me stuck in a loop of my last 10 or 20 songs and I hate it.
If I’m listening to some techno, and I change gears to old school country/bluegrass for awhile, then, YouTube will never ever recommend techno to me again. Not unless I manually remember some of my favorite songs, search for them, and retrain it that I like techno. But then of course country slowly dies. God forbid I mix in hard rock, punk rock, or rap. It just confuses it more.
And it’s not just a genre problem, even within a genre of repeats the same dozen or two songs every time I open the app.
It’s not just me, I have a family plan and my brothers have both separately complained to me about the algorithms being worse than Google Play music, which is what we used to use.
I literally created a playlist called YouTube music sucks, where I save my most liked songs, so I can reseed the algorithm when I want a change of tunes. I need the playlist because I have a terrible memory and can’t remember all the songs I’ve liked.
Why don’t I change? Because I’m cheap, and it’s bundled with YouTube premium for the whole family. And it has no right to be as bad as it is. I keep thinking they’re gonna fix it, but I guess maybe people like being spoon fed their last 20 liked songs?
At least you fucking OWN the thing, tho
I guess they’re in a closet… Deep in the back.
Conversely, you buy a CD from a band you’ve never heard of just because you like the album art or maybe even the title or the band name, and you find out it’s a god damn masterpiece from start to finish. This is how I discovered Audioslave almost 20 years ago and it’s the best $14 I ever spent. I still have the disc btw and it still plays perfectly.
That album showed me how to live.
But it didn’t give you life… Wait, did it?
Technically the one I bought on a whim back then was Out of Exile, which I would now consider the weakest of the three, but I liked it enough to seek out more.
That’s how I bought the Hybrid Theory album from Linkin Park. Took a chance, knew nothing about them.
i’m curious now
usually censorship is used to replace a strong word with a milder one, or to change the meaning of the text
what word in this meme was so egregious that OP saw fit to replace it with “fucking”
My best guess is that it originally was “fucking,” someone censored it to something like “hecking,” then someone else censored the censor back to “fucking”
I kinda love this journey though
I see puddle of mudd in this and I don’t like it
you mean the band?
acho que tá tudo bem, provavelmente é sobre a banda.
Ih, não sabia que quando denunciava alguém ia parar na minha instância de origem. Isso é meio ruim c não acha?
É e não é.
O lado bom é que se o mod de lá for negligente pelo menos daqui a gente consegue remover.
Couldn’t you just get it back to the store and get a refund?
That’s why I only buy albums that I listened to before on Spotify.
Yeah except in 1999 you could go to Sam Goody or The Warehouse or whatever, and listen to the album in the store before buying, especially if it was a new release.
Personally, I was going to the public library and checking out it CDs from there.
Napster was 99
I was talking those CDs from the library and loading them onto my Rio PMP
$10 for an album? You lucky dog, here one album CD costs at that time around $25.
It’s 1999 and I’m standing in a music store listening to a few new albums I might buy, while talking with the other audio nerds about upcoming releases and musicians I haven’t even heard of before.
I kinda miss it. Like Libraries, but I get to buy and keep whatever I enjoy.
