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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

You buy the CD because they had a charting single on radio, you’re than disappointed that the rest of the album is a different sound.

Not everyone had internet in the 90s-00s either mate…..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Did you miss the whole “you could test listen to the CD in the shop” part?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Nope, not every place had the money to burn on a cd in a jukebox from every artist. Also standing there for 45 minutes to listen to the entire thing? Who actually does that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There were actual listening stations with headphones here in Germany at certain media chains. Some people spent whole afternoons in there.

But yeah, the opposite did exist. I remember, when I was a teenager friends got a dozen or more CDs for their birthday. Good old 1998.

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