$10? What a deal
Anyone else remember the mail order CD services like Columbia house and bmg? I probably still owe them like a grand lmao.
I’m just not ready for that kind of commitment.
Oh wow I completely forgot about these
I signed up for some BMG deal where you get 12 CDs if you buy one. They sent me the one but I never paid them (I was 9). They sent my family a letter demanding money but we never paid. Suckers!
No body paid for them. You get two or three sets of tapes/CDs and never looked back. I’m surprised that lasted as long as it did lol
Yeah I joined Columbia House once upon a time and did manage to complete the minimum obligation. Honestly it wasn’t a bad deal. Album prices kept going up around that time so the initial 10 albums I got when joining would have cost me a lot more than I ended up paying in total.
I think streaming makes music a “throwaway” product.
I well and fondly remember when a new album of my favorite band came out and I met friends at the music store to listen and buy it from my saved pocket money. And I still habe most of these albums… and I still listen to them… all though they live on my music players hdd permanently
There’s still good stuff out there. You just have to dig deeper, take risks, and you have to make the conscious decision to give it an active listen from front to back.
Right? There are artists who still care about the album format. King Gizz was one of those gems I discovered that I wouldn’t have otherwise. They’re constantly dropping new thematic albums worth listening to. And you can buy vinyl from many artists these days if you want a physical copy.
I really don’t miss the days when we paid more money for a significantly more inconvenient way of listening to SIGNIFICANTLY less diverse music on much shittier devices.
Streaming allowed me to discover 1700 songs that I love. It gave me the opportunity to enjoy countless genres. Now I export my liked songs to a spreadsheet so I never lose them. I wouldn’t be able to do that otherwise. It’s done great things for my music listening.
what.cd’s (RIP) big music spider tree was that for me. Artist I like? At the the bottom of the page, a buncha of others like them.
I absolutely agree. I quit the streaming services and now put the money towards purchasing media I actually care about.
Music streaming is just … Objectively better for everybody. Small bands can be heard, hence the indy scene booming so hard, consumers can access their content anywhere there’s internet.
I think you miss the ritual around getting physical media and having a session where you just sit back and listen to the album for the first time. You could try to replicate it, but I think child-like wonder was the main ingredient ;)
Wasn’t 1999 the peak of the price gouging from the record labels? It was like $20-25 for a new album for a ton of the major record labels from what I remember.
$10? That’s a steal.
One of the last times I just straight up bought a full CD was 1999
Mr Bungle. California. $18
Still one of the best purchases ever, though
I remember destinys child’s survivor album was $40+
Yes, albums weren’t $10, even on small labels. We were dropping $20+ hoping for the best. In some cases convincing ourselves it was good, just because we spent so much on it.
My budget for CDs maxed out at $16. After that, I had to moved to Napster.
I’m pretty sure I owe my career in computers to the high seas. Napster led to irc, which led to the endless rabbit hole of many a sleepless night in the chat rooms of the 90s.
1.29 a song bb
The first Tony Yayo album comes to mind. Or wait, was that Young Buck? Some lackluster G-Unit member going solo, at least
Suck to be you. I was too broke for a discman. I had a portable cassette player I bought in Tijuana that played just a little too fast and stacks of bootleg cassettes I bought from the dude with a huge briefcase of them out back behind the church on Sunday.
There was probably a small hole in the back of your Walkman. Behind it was a slot you could turn with a screwdriver to adjust the speed.
This would work for a few years until the motor commutator would go a bit dodgy.
Cranberries burned me hard. I bought their second album because “Zombie” fucking rocked. The rest of the album is stuff like “Ode to my Family” and “Dreaming my Dreams”!
It did eventually grow on me, but I was so disappointed.
Bought The Pixies album around that time too, only listened to it because I’d paid for it. Still pisses me off when I hear one of the tracks
Pixies are so good though?
As a kid in the 2000s I got the yearly now that’s what I call music album then listened to those 16-18 songs for the rest of the year or the radio. Until limewire.
Here we had Big Shiny Tunes
#2 being the best of the bunch, imho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns0UidyZH2k
lmao what a fucking trip back in time. I had a couple of those albums myself. I remember seeing the commercials with all the kids singing the songs
Funnily enough, they still make them, both on steaming platforms and on CDs, swear to god there’s one on my nearest Tesco’s shelf
commercials with all the kids singing the songs
I think that was Kids Bop, which is essentially Now That’s What I Call Music, but kids were covering the songs instead of the actual band
Ah right you are. Shows how long all this was
Growing up in the early 2000s I always borrowed CDs from the library and learned how to burn them on my own CDs.
I had a friend with a CD player/tape player boombox and rich parents, he would copy the CDs to tapes so I could listen to them.
Oh no! A band made some money!
FUCK SPOTIFY.
Buys album
The only CDs I bought back in the day were by the band “Traxdata”. They had a lot of hits.
I don’t miss the times when I had to use my headphones as an antena for radio, as I couldn’t buy music.
I had a pair of headphones with an actual built-in radio. I thought I was hot shit. It was the mid-90s and I was probably 10-ish.
Were they also yellow like mine?
Nah, classic late 90s metallic gray.
Back when i had an xperia phone it actually was able to pick up radio with headphones connected, had an app for it
Nah, at that time AudioGalaxy was in full spring and I was rocking the MZ-R30 Minidisc walkman.
Audiogalaxy was amazing. I found so much good music through it that totally influenced my taste for the rest of my life. Soulseek, OiNK, What.CD and Waffles led the way after that. Now it’s Redacted and Orpheus. It’s been a journey!
I was buying vinyl in '99 and still buying vinyl today.
