It’s 1999 and you go to a record store to listen to the entire album BEFORE you buy it. Never occurred to me to do otherwise.
I forgot this used to be the way. These days I think I’d be a little grossed out by the public headphones but I loved sitting in the store and skimming through albums before purchasing them.
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And then you keep playing it, the Mere Exposure Effect kicks in, and you start to enjoy the album. A prisoner of your own mind.
Or did you actually, out of “nessecity” and being cheap, really LISTEN to it and realized that it probably was good and not give up on it and jump to the next thing after 20 seconds as you do today?
No. It was Savage Garden’s self-titled album. There’s no way it’s actually good. The over-exposure broke my brain.
TIL about the mere exposure effect! I’ve noticed this internally for myself, but didn’t know there was a formal name for this.
Looking at you Duran Duran.
There should have been a band or album called The Stockholm Syndrome.
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Yup lol
Flip side it is early 1999 and you’re in the 6th grade and you just spent some of your Christmas money on The Offspring’s Americana, and you’ve no idea how there isn’t a parental advisory.
It’s the first album you’ve purchased with your own money and it exceeds all your expectations.
Napster launched in June 1999. It shut down in July 2001. It was a short run but I don’t think a lot of young people were spending $10 on an album.
This isn’t wrong - I was there using Napster, and I was one of the lucky ones with a Mac so my computer was immune to most viruses.
What was the other one that was really good… its symbol was a satellite… Found it: Audiogalaxy.
And, for the longest time, it was also Limewire… lol…
But yeah, I still did buy CDs because I also felt like it was a lot more common to not be able to find stuff you wanted…
Or, the funniest thing ever: downloading “Sex Pistols” but it’s just a Billy Idol song. IDK why that would happen but it did.
Looking your direction, Fastball! The Way was a decent song, but the rest of the album was terrible!
C’mon now, “Fire Escape” was a decent tune!
It wasn’t for me, but I don’t think anything else on the album was at all memorable.
It also makes the absolute best Pandora station seed for “fun music everyone wants to sing along to”.
Or in my case you bought Toadies - Possum Kingdom and got pissed off that the entire album was only 37 minutes long and you payed $18 for it in the 90’s… Have not bought music sense. Viva la Streaming!
Yeah, albums were definitely not $10 in the 90s.
I feel like $16 would have been closer to the average price.
I remember a crisp twenty for your birthday was like a CD and some twizzlers.
Worse is an expensive concert and not realizing the artist’s latest album has a reggae twist (I don’t mind reggae!!).
Just wasn’t expecting all the songs including his big hits.
Damn you, Jason Mraz!
Ha, nice. I wish. It truly was disappointing.
I bought one (1) CD in my entire life. It was The Prodigy’s Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. Put it in my computer… It didn’t work. No files. I was one of the victims to Sony’s shitty DRM crap. Returned the CD and never stopped pirating since.
The industry ruins artists and consumers alike. Let it die
St. Anger. Metallica. Haven’t listened to anything new from them since then, cause that album burned me so bad. Literally killed my lifelong fandom of Metallica. Still love the old stuff
I don’t think it was 1999, but St. Anger…
Bastards whined about Napster, then put out that piece of crap.
I made like 5 bucks an hour to earn that money, so that was hours of my life I was never going to get back.
Dude !? Wtf me to!!! I called it ‘St. Angry’ lol that’s so crazy man.
I still listen to it because I can’t have just single tracks lying around on my hard drive, I NEED the full accompanying album!
