Remember CD listening stations in music stores?

[Crayola Coyote]

Dawg listen to a whole album at the mall. Man these were the days looking forward too.

 

[ORDER_66]

Good times

 

[TEH]

Good times indeed

 

[Spence]

that's extremely unsanitary by today's standards

You’re talking to the generation that we had to use public telephones to call for our rides home

We also would spend all fkn day in the mall arcade where other people used the machines one after another.



Blockbuster music and Best Buy were our only outlets here down south. We didn’t have Tower records or Sam Goody.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Hitting the mall food court with mom then going to Sam Goody to get the Backstreet Boys CD.

So we both had parents that loved us in early 2000s

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Shiiiitttttt I remember those

One of the last time I used one was when Nelly first cd dropped.

I was sleeping on it and it was around the time that shyt was like a record #1 on the charts for like 100 weeks so one day I decided to give it a listen and was like it slaps

 

[MajesticLion]

Tower Records at Lenox
Sam Goody at the Underground

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

U nikkas reminiscing again

Spoiler

Sam Goody was the shyt

 

[keond]

My moms used to drop me off at Tower while she got her hair done. The Tower Records was the size of a Walmart, had listening stations in every genre. When I got bored with that they had a magazine area that was about 40 feet long

 

[J-MIL]

Good times

 

[Hater Eraser]

Spoiler: The Future

Then Napster hit ..

 

[Canada Goose]

Used to cop CD's from The Wiz, Coconuts, Suncoast, and Tower Records back in the day.

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The Wiz!!!!! My Childhood!!!!


I still remember an old school TV (before flat screens were the norm) my parents bought from there that lasted into my High School years before it finally crapped out.


Wiz was across the street from Kings Plaza in Brooklyn

 

[Canada Goose]

In modern times, kids still play the demo display games at Best Buy, in recent years I seen a kid laying on the floor playing an PS4 or XB1 game in Best Buy


This may be long gone from music but you can sort of still do this for games

 

[Seoul Gleou]

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



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2009 was 12 years ago

not recent at all

 

[Bone$]

Lot of them only played music snippets, not the whole song... And damn near every music CD store I ever been to had the hip hop section closest to the register.. Not even hiding the cism