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      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.

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        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.

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      $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

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    Where were you getting albums from popular bands/artists for $10 in '99? That shit was approaching $20 or more when Napster finally took care of those assholes.

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    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

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      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.

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        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.

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      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 ;)

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      I absolutely agree. I quit the streaming services and now put the money towards purchasing media I actually care about.

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    1999 CDs were typically $20 - $30 so it was actually worse. This was what you would pay at a Sam Goody, Camelot Music, FYE etc.

    It wasn’t until a few years later that CD prices were cheaper. You could go to Wal-Mart and get cheaper prices, but you would be buying censored or edited albums.

    I remember the Wal-Mart release of Eminem’s second album was missing the entire song of Kim for example, just completely replaced.

    I think a lot of people who post about the nineties weren’t spending their own money or something, because I remember how pricey music was, and cherished each CD.

    I still have some of my CDs from the nineties.

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      And to add to that, something that used to cost $20 in 1995 dollars costs $40 in 2023 dollars.

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      No the average price of CDs in the 90s was about $15 and they were on sale regularly for $10-12 in some places.

      I bought about 400 CDs in the 90s and still have them.

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        Cool, but definitely not my experience growing up. You could get those prices sometimes at Wal-Mart but CDa would be edited or censored, and I grew up in an area where there were no standalone CD or Record stores, so all I saw and had access to was mall stores like Camelot Music, FYE, or Sam Goody.

        The prices I’m referencing were 100% accurate for my time of reference, which was the bulk of the nineties.

        Only towards the end, like literal turn of the century late 1999 into 2000 did things actually start to change.

        I promise this is true.

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        I don’t even feel like that’s strange, I had lots of cassettes and a casette player in my car until 2015 or so

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      Yeah you can’t really censor Kim lol. At least it was replaced with a new song (a South-Park-parody drug-PSA for kids) and not something from the first album.

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      And to add to that, something that used to cost $20 in 1995 dollars costs $40 in 2023 dollars.

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      And to add to that, something that used to cost $20 in 1995 dollars costs $40 in 2023 dollars.

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    Growing up in the early 2000s I always borrowed CDs from the library and learned how to burn them on my own CDs.

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      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.

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      What was used for file sharing in 1999? IRC, Napster or something else?

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        I used Napster and Limewire at that time, I believe. But like other commenters have said - 20 bucks in 1999 is the equivalent to $36 or so today. And we did that without being able to pre-listen.

        I actually threw Metallica’s St. Anger out the window on the drive home from the record store I was so upset. I’d had a horrible day and everything kept going wrong, even small things. I drove 45 minutes North to the nearest record store, had to walk back out to my car for change (I didn’t have enough cash) and after the first few songs I started to get this pit in my stomach and I just fucking lost it. Rolled the window down at 65mph and threw that thing as hard as I could. And we had very little money at the time. Good times…

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        Napster was released exactly in 1999, and before that IRC groups were active since the 80’s

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    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.

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    I don’t miss the times when I had to use my headphones as an antena for radio, as I couldn’t buy music.

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    For sure, Spotify is convenient but you own nothing and you locked with a subscription. Also, you listen what they propose. What happens if your favorite band become removed from their library?

    I still buy few albums and keep my library of audio files. (And I get some album for free using the same methods we used back in the days 😏)

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      My music taste is always changing. I like listening to new (to me) music, not the same albums over and over. I much prefer spotify over buying albums

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        You can do it without Spotify as well.

        My point is, using downloaded album, you are sure to retreive what you listened X years ago.

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      The only songs that have ever been removed from my library (Spotify shows you) are remixes/mashups where the person doing it never had permission.

      Not really sure what you mean by you listen to what they propose? You search what you want, follow other people, listen to playlists you or other people have made.

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    Anyone else remember the mail order CD services like Columbia house and bmg? I probably still owe them like a grand lmao.

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      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!

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        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

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      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.

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    Diskman? When I was young I had this one, copying the music from the Radio and from my vinilos on the turnable… Much later an cassette player in a Ghetto Blaster.

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    Buys album

    The only CDs I bought back in the day were by the band “Traxdata”. They had a lot of hits.

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    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.

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      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.