Yeah except in 1999 you could go to Sam Goody or The Warehouse or whatever, and listen to the album in the store before buying, especially if it was a new release.
Personally, I was going to the public library and checking out it CDs from there.
There was also a market for used CDs back in the day so you could sell it and buy another
The still a few stores around here in Portland trading CDs and vinyl
Still is!
Discogs.com
I used to go to Tower Records to listen to albums. Never bought a single cd.
Napster was 99
I was talking those CDs from the library and loading them onto my Rio PMP
shout out to the Dalston Virgin for showing me the world of DJ Yoda
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
DJ Yoda
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I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Yeah except in 1999 you could go to Sam Goody or The Warehouse or whatever, and listen to the album in the store before buying, especially if it was a new release.
Personally, I was going to the public library and checking out it CDs from there.
There was also a market for used CDs back in the day so you could sell it and buy another
The still a few stores around here in Portland trading CDs and vinyl
Still is!
Discogs.com
I used to go to Tower Records to listen to albums. Never bought a single cd.
Napster was 99
I was talking those CDs from the library and loading them onto my Rio PMP
shout out to the Dalston Virgin for showing me the world of DJ Yoda
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
DJ Yoda
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.