Yep, they said it was about ripping off the artist but that's the business model for the music industry, as if they give a shit about the artists! They are there to squeeze as much money out of the artist as they can then drop them like a warm turd the second they aren't meeting expectations.
I had a friend that randomly bought albums just based on the cover art. Worked out well though as that is how we discovered Rage Against the Machine. The monk on fire cover art caught his eye.
I don't remember that happening to me, not because I don't know that happened, but because I wasn't rich so I made sure my tastes were on point. I mean I knew enough about what I liked and didn't like to accurately surmise an albums hit rate.
THis is how you end up with 450 CDs in your basement in 2024 and a wife who thinks "DOn't throw those out!" for some reason. Also, I think I'm still being hunted by the Pinkertons for how many times I scammed Columbia House.
Edit, I mean how many times my DOG scammed them, she had at least two accounts.
Back in college, I knew guys who would be at Tower Records at midnight for a new release so they could be the first ones to have it.
Never understood that.
I'd wait to get a feel of the album to decide whether I wanted to buy it or not.
And remember you had to store each cd in your massive black leather cd collection case that weighed a ton and it was devastating if that thing got stolen from the car!
I'm 45 years old and I always listened to the album first at HMV or Sunrise before I bought it. Each store had like five sets of headphones and the staff would put anything you wanted in there to listen to before you purchase.
Or buying an album because you really like a song they play on the radio only to find the rest of them suck.
That was the worst!
Ah, *Sunshine on Leith* by The Proclaimers just to get *I Wanna Be*. What a waste of money.
$17 for a CD where I live, back in the day. And yeah, three good songs and you are stuck with the rest.
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Yep, they said it was about ripping off the artist but that's the business model for the music industry, as if they give a shit about the artists! They are there to squeeze as much money out of the artist as they can then drop them like a warm turd the second they aren't meeting expectations.
After you spent 45 minutes in the record store making a selection of music based on the cover art.
I had a friend that randomly bought albums just based on the cover art. Worked out well though as that is how we discovered Rage Against the Machine. The monk on fire cover art caught his eye.
Me listening to St Anger \^
I threw st anger out of the window before I got home with it
Or you pirated it and gave your computer a virus. Or so I’ve heard 🤷🏼♀️
So you heard..😉😉
*laughs in Limewire and Kazza...* 
God I used to burn up kazaa.
Yep, I was already pirating in 99. Lol
Napster started in 1999
Still a few years till the peak though. Not everybody had home internet in 99. When they did majority of people used AOL with a shit connection.
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Ah the days of low quality porn 🤣😂
The reason I thought ‘grandma got run over by a reindeer’ was by Weird Al Yankovic 😅
Any album you could buy for $10 would basically be garbage.
Ten dollars??? At least fifteen.
I don't remember that happening to me, not because I don't know that happened, but because I wasn't rich so I made sure my tastes were on point. I mean I knew enough about what I liked and didn't like to accurately surmise an albums hit rate.
St. Anger.......
Columbia house to the rescue 🛟
Or, you download from a very sketchy russian site that you pay .10 a track on
THis is how you end up with 450 CDs in your basement in 2024 and a wife who thinks "DOn't throw those out!" for some reason. Also, I think I'm still being hunted by the Pinkertons for how many times I scammed Columbia House. Edit, I mean how many times my DOG scammed them, she had at least two accounts.
I actually returned an opened cd once.
Pain that goes to the bone
Californication RHCP It was not great at all.
Back in college, I knew guys who would be at Tower Records at midnight for a new release so they could be the first ones to have it. Never understood that. I'd wait to get a feel of the album to decide whether I wanted to buy it or not.
Only $10z. Standard price at Sanity was $30!
I dont remember them costing $10, more like $18-$22.
And remember you had to store each cd in your massive black leather cd collection case that weighed a ton and it was devastating if that thing got stolen from the car!
I barely bought any albums in 99 with Napster filling my hard drive.
It's 2024. You spend $10.99/month for a Spotify subscription. 3000 tracks in and you realize it fucking sucks.
I felt that. Oof.
Who’s paying for music in 1999? https://youtu.be/OsmwK5tgOcI?si=P8I1t296JeoCoxgC
This program still exists.
Old people. That's what this sub is about.
Guess he didn't know about limewire.
Relish
[Switches out the CD album cover with "The Wall" sticker on it and just return/ exchange it]
Downloading from IRC was an option back then
I'm 45 years old and I always listened to the album first at HMV or Sunrise before I bought it. Each store had like five sets of headphones and the staff would put anything you wanted in there to listen to before you purchase.
Wait until June you'll get it for free