My discman is skipping

This is why stores would let you listen to it before purchasing

Wasn't 1999 the peak of the price gouging from the record labels? It was like $20-25 for a new album for a ton of the major record labels from what I remember.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_price_fixing

1999 CDs were typically $20 - $30 so it was actually worse. This was what you would pay at a Sam Goody, Camelot Music, FYE etc.

It wasn't until a few years later that CD prices were cheaper. You could go to Wal-Mart and get cheaper prices, but you would be buying censored or edited albums.

I remember the Wal-Mart release of Eminem's second album was missing the entire song of Kim for example, just completely replaced.

I think a lot of people who post about the nineties weren't spending their own money or something, because I remember how pricey music was, and cherished each CD.

I still have some of my CDs from the nineties.

Where were you getting albums from popular bands/artists for $10 in '99? That shit was approaching $20 or more when Napster finally took care of those assholes.

I think streaming makes music a “throwaway” product.

I well and fondly remember when a new album of my favorite band came out and I met friends at the music store to listen and buy it from my saved pocket money. And I still habe most of these albums… and I still listen to them… all though they live on my music players hdd permanently

Growing up in the early 2000s I always borrowed CDs from the library and learned how to burn them on my own CDs.

Cranberries burned me hard. I bought their second album because "Zombie" fucking rocked. The rest of the album is stuff like "Ode to my Family" and "Dreaming my Dreams"!

It did eventually grow on me, but I was so disappointed.

I don't miss the times when I had to use my headphones as an antena for radio, as I couldn't buy music.

For sure, Spotify is convenient but you own nothing and you locked with a subscription. Also, you listen what they propose. What happens if your favorite band become removed from their library?

I still buy few albums and keep my library of audio files. (And I get some album for free using the same methods we used back in the days 😏)

Listening stations were LIFE!!!

As a kid in the 2000s I got the yearly now that's what I call music album then listened to those 16-18 songs for the rest of the year or the radio. Until limewire.

Anyone else remember the mail order CD services like Columbia house and bmg? I probably still owe them like a grand lmao.

Diskman? When I was young I had this one, copying the music from the Radio and from my vinilos on the turnable.. Much later an cassette player in a Ghetto Blaster.

Buys album

The only CDs I bought back in the day were by the band "Traxdata". They had a lot of hits.

Suck to be you. I was too broke for a discman. I had a portable cassette player I bought in Tijuana that played just a little too fast and stacks of bootleg cassettes I bought from the dude with a huge briefcase of them out back behind the church on Sunday.

Its 1990: Limewire.

Only for a little while though, it wouldn't be long after when we were making our own playlists and burning them to cd.

I was buying vinyl in '99 and still buying vinyl today.

Nah, at that time AudioGalaxy was in full spring and I was rocking the MZ-R30 Minidisc walkman.

Its 1999: WinMX

$10? What a deal

The first Tony Yayo album comes to mind. Or wait, was that Young Buck? Some lackluster G-Unit member going solo, at least

1.29 a song bb

Oh no! A band made some money!

FUCK SPOTIFY.