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Now I will tell you how we bought music in the 1990s.
To hear music before you bought it, either a friend would play it for you or you& #39;d hear it on the radio.
But there was a third way! You& #39;d go to a music store. Most music stores had a CD player with some headphones set up.
But there was a third way! You& #39;d go to a music store. Most music stores had a CD player with some headphones set up.
You& #39;d go to the front counter with the CD you were interested in, and an employee would carefully unhinge the CD case — so as not to tear the security strip sealing the case — and put the CD into the CD player. You& #39;d put on the headphones and stand there, listening to the album.
If you liked it, great, you could buy it. If you didn& #39;t like it, you could put it back. At smaller music shops (like Spencer& #39;s, here in Charlottesville), the shopkeeper would just play the CD over the stereo for you.
I usually bought used CDs. Those were $5–$8 instead of $12–15. Then it was important to open the (unsealed) case and inspect the CD, to make sure it wasn& #39;t scratched, and maybe skim through the tracks on the CD player to make sure it didn& #39;t skip.
If there was just one song you wanted? Didn& #39;t matter, had to buy the whole CD.
This was how I came to buy the only album that I ever sold back to the store (to be resold as a used album): Blues Traveler& #39;s "Four." "Run-Around" was fine, but the rest of it was horrific.
This was how I came to buy the only album that I ever sold back to the store (to be resold as a used album): Blues Traveler& #39;s "Four." "Run-Around" was fine, but the rest of it was horrific.
And that is how we bought music in the 1990s.
