in 1999 you had the ability to get into a music shop, load the cd and test listen to it. Or just go through the music charts. Or wish for a specific song on radio.

Also 1999 already had Napster, Morpheus and others.

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 24 points 2 years ago

A lot of people still bought whole cd's because it had that one song from the radio on it.

[–] Gurfaild@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

In the 2000s, some electronics stores where I lived had "jukeboxes" with headphones and a barcode scanner, so you could listen to 30-second snippets of the songs on an album before buying it.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm old enough to know the pencil trick to fix a cassette that got eaten by the stereo....

[–] DharmaCurious@startrek.website 3 points 2 years ago

I still keep a pencil in my car. I know there's no cassette to play, but my car feels naked with a pencil rolling around the center console or in the little tray on the dash.

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I also learned how to do this as a child but I am probably a bit younger than you at 18yo.

[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Old or poor..."

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was less that we were poor and more that my parents had a lot of music and radio dramas on different media. My father still has more than two hundred vinyl disks that he plays semiregularly and I have an old audio tape player/recorder sitting around in my bedroom although I don't really use that one.

[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Just having a joke, glad to hear people committed to the old media

[–] CylustheVirus@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Kazaa, limewire. One - Metallica.mp3.exe as far as the eye can see.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That file was the best. I could have made a collection out of them xD

[–] Getawombatupya@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Format C:, Reinstall XP

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

In 1999? Uuuuh.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

God, I miss test listens. My favorite record store was very easy going in this, they'd happily let me stand there listening to most of the CD. The unspoken rule was that if you spend that much time listening, you're going to buy it anyway.
One of the few shops where I always felt welcome.