• errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    1 year ago

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

    • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • explodicle@local106.comEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        You’re not wrong, but there were definitely people who spent tons of time listening to music at the record store.

        • schmidtster@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I guess, I was thinking of strictly purchasing. Yeah some people do just go and hang out and chill instead.

      • Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de
        2·
        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.