• macniel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    in 1999 you had the ability to get into a music shop, load the cd and test listen to it. Or just go through the music charts. Or wish for a specific song on radio.

    Also 1999 already had Napster, Morpheus and others.

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      1 year ago

      In the 2000s, some electronics stores where I lived had “jukeboxes” with headphones and a barcode scanner, so you could listen to 30-second snippets of the songs on an album before buying it.

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        1 year ago

        I still keep a pencil in my car. I know there’s no cassette to play, but my car feels naked with a pencil rolling around the center console or in the little tray on the dash.

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      God, I miss test listens. My favorite record store was very easy going in this, they’d happily let me stand there listening to most of the CD. The unspoken rule was that if you spend that much time listening, you’re going to buy it anyway.
      One of the few shops where I always felt welcome.

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      Never saw a music shop with a communal CD player that allowed you to remove the CD shrink wrap.