Taking tapes and cds out of the equation makes it lose some of its allure

Their was never a unified release day ( tuesday ) rarely a commercial promoting a release, a lot of artist had silent releases or you actually had to get off your ass go to a sam goody or your local record store and ask or look at some of the promo posters they had on the walls around the store, fingered through cds and tapes and randomly picking something that looked interesting was part of the fun ... I understand it has always been a business and businesses grow but it kind of took the fun out of it when it became to easy

I won't even front I copped redman dare iz a dark side tape cause the cover looked crazy and the track names sounded cool ... I was a kid who saved his lunch money every week to cop a new tape or handful of cassette singlea

Same thing happened n once the collection was gone I said fuck it n started dlin

now I don't even dl I just play Pandora or peep new releases via datpiff n sht... Streamed

but @God Of War bmg n there was another one too, we're the sht... I'd get so hype when that sht came in the mail lol

How old are you Metts?

Vinyl people sang the same song when they got replaced. Still swearing it sounds better.

I miss CD's because when you paid money for you you tried to get value out of it. I'd listen to shit I didn't love because I had just paid money for it. CD's had value. I've downloaded 100 albums I've probably never even listened to. I want to, I just don't have the free time, and most (if any) of this shit isn't kid friendly. Plus, CD's would force you to keep it on repeat. It was in my CD player and I didn't have 20 other CD's with me. It was in my car, and yea, I had 10 other CD's in my backseat, but THIS shit was new. That's when certain CD's represent a time period in your life, because you kept listening to it. It's changed the landscape of producing music, too. Artists have to grab your attention, and they've adapted. Which is why I love independent music, because a lot of the times you can tell they're doing it because they want to. There's a lot of reasons to miss the way music was in the '90s. At the same time, if not for Napster, I never would have heard of half the people I listen to. I heard one, and it would lead me to another. There wasn't this laundry list of websites promoting people. It was still word of mouth, but via MP3. MP3's have been marketed now. Independent artists learned to market their independence. Money ruins everything.

When I was younger there was an urban clothing store that sold mixtapes (actual cassettes) from the hip hop connection... That sht was dope af too

columbia house my dude lol

@dull boy ... I'm 32

And I don't think the whole independent thing is true ... alot of artist stay independent now because of the internet and its capabilities, record companies fold left and right now because they aren't the only option. .. people forget master p dropped all his cds independent on his own label had in house producers cut cost on cd cases and had a very wide distribution shipment ... today's tech just allows anyone to upload and take a shot which is very cool but at the same time a slap in the face to older groups like the ramones who had to play dirt clubs for years to get a buzz

The quality difference between cassette and cd is evident now but when they first came t was more the luxury of skipping to a certain track but as a kid I still got cassettes cause cds were in the 30 $ range and for some strange reason a compact disc wouldn't fit into my walkman .. I'd only get cds with like bday/xmas money maybe some allowance here and there ... but early 90s they price dropped add by mid 90s were very affordable esp on sale

Old vinyl heads like that semi grainy natural sound ccause they think its pure the way an artist intended

man i refused to go to cd's , when my tape broke i could tape that shit back together and walah it was like new again never been able to do that with a cd lol

@God Of War u pour coke on the cd lol

and ya @columbia house

n peep ya pms

Their was a lot of coke on cds in the 80s @Rawn

Did anyone else take shitty CDs and throw them at friends as hard as possible to see who could leave the biggest welt?

We used those metal baseball cards they had out at one point. Then someone would always end up crying and bleeding.

Shit a cd would slice someone for real ...

But why waste it ... you could of took it to a record and tape traders and recouped a few bucks ... or trade it to someone in school for another album or some shit

I did that plenty. I've probably bought more than 700 CDs and currently own 400. Of those 300 I don't have anymore, probably 50 were lost or borrowed and never returned, 200 were resold and 50 were not accepted because they had a scratch. Those mostly were the ones we did that with.

Last cd I bought was Jay-Z - American Gangster.

Quite some time ago.