Remember CD listening stations in music stores?

[CHICAGO]

2009 was 12 years ago

not recent at all

IT IS RECENT WHEN YOU CONSIDER
NONE OF THE STORES MENTIONED
IN THIS THREAD EXIST ANYMORE.



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[Ciggavelli]

I remember riding my bicycle to the mall, buying Nas’ “I am,” then hiding it in my backpack coming home so my Mom didn’t see it with the parent advisory sticker on it. I did that with some other albums, but “I am” stands out the most

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

that's extremely unsanitary by today's standards

We ain't care. We'd survived the Crack Epidemic AND the AIDS Scare, had no problem using payphones right after one another, gathering 10 deep around people playing Street Fighter and Paperboy in arcades, chilling at the food court in the mall after a movie let out in crowds of 50 or more, etc.​

This COVID shyt really destroyed socializing moreso than the Internet.

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[MikelArteta]

yup
I remember the ones at hmv, would go and listen to ruffryders Ryde or Die Vol. 1

 

[Lord_nikon]

We ain't care. We'd survived the Crack Epidemic AND the AIDS Scare, had no problem using payphones right after one another, gathering 10 deep around people playing Street Fighter and Paperboy in arcades, chilling at the food court in the mall after a movie let out in crowds of 50 or more, etc.​

This COVID shyt really destroyed socializing moreso than the Internet.

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what you talking about( i'm a 80 breh ) ,,,???,,,,,,,,,,,,, I still remember blunts you to be passed around in the group ,,, randoms brehs walking on street and see you smoking and say,,, ( A let me hit joint real quick ) post was mainly about how covid changed things

 

[ORDER_66]

IT IS RECENT WHEN YOU CONSIDER
NONE OF THE STORES MENTIONED
IN THIS THREAD EXIST ANYMORE.



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Sam Goody, Coconuts, FYE,

RIP

 

[UpAndComing]

They still have FYE stores in small towns

I go in there to reminisce

 

[shutterguy]

Back when FYE was the size of Bestbuy. Only place I could find Electronic Dance Music back in the day. Just imagine how unsanitary sharing display headphones would be looked at today

Used to work at Camelot Music/FYE in the mall, was definitely damn near the size of Best Buy, and was one of the entrances to the mall. Literally GOAT job at the time, all the females came thru our store , got to know sooo many females from other stores in the mall . We sold soooooo many cd's off them listening stations, couldn't keep anything from Deathrow, No-Limit, or Bad Boy in stock.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

what you talking about( i'm a 80 breh ) ,,,???,,,,,,,,,,,,, I still remember blunts you to be passed around in the group ,,, randoms brehs walking on street and see you smoking and say,,, ( A let me hit joint real quick ) post was mainly about how covid changed things

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That's what I'm talking about, breh. Hell, we didn't even spark blunts until the late-80's around here. Had like 5 joints rolling in a cypher of 8-10 people with a couple 40 oz. of OE or St. Pauli Girl being passed around getting BLASTED while listening to Soulsonic Force or The Fat Boys!!!!

You do that now and peeps look at you like......​

 

[Dynamite James]

They still have FYE stores in small towns

I go in there to reminisce

They had one in Torrance California. They closed down like 2 weeks after I discovered it

 

[Metal Face]

I wonder if that guy heard Braveheart Party

 

[Arcavian]

 

[You Win Perfect]

I WAS STILL REGULARLY
HITTING SAM GOODY
AS RECENTLY AS 2009.



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So over a decade ago. That’s not recently

 

[the cool]

The coli stealing from Reddit threads again

 

[Contrefaire]

Nothing like hitting up the mall with my Christmas or birthday money, buying a hot raisin pretzel from Auntie Anne's and spending hours at the listening stations in Sam Goody or Warehouse Music trying to decide on the ONE cd I was gonna buy like my life depended on it. Damn.