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DmMacniel 146 points 3 years ago

in 1999 you had the ability to get into a music shop, load the cd and test listen to it. Or just go through the music charts. Or wish for a specific song on radio.

Also 1999 already had Napster, Morpheus and others.

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BruceTwarzen 50 points 3 years ago

A lot of people still bought whole cd's because it had that one song from the radio on it.

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schmidtster 38 points 3 years ago

You buy the CD because they had a charting single on radio, you’re than disappointed that the rest of the album is a different sound.

Not everyone had internet in the 90s-00s either mate…..

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Enkers 14 points 3 years ago

Then you keep listening to it anyways, and it slowly becomes one of your favourite albums of all time.

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Kimjongtooill 9 points 3 years ago

Chumba Wumba deep-cuts.

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captainlezbian 2 points 3 years ago

They do really grow on you

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Polar 3 points 3 years ago

We call that justifying your purchase. You forced yourself into liking it so you didn't "waste" the money.

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Enkers 1 point 3 years ago

Haha, definitely a possibility!

I think there's also an element of the hit tracks often being a bit more formulaic. There's a big component of familiarity in music that makes it appealing, so people might not appreciate the more experimental tracks on an album until they've heard them a few times.

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Peaty 4 points 3 years ago

Sugar Ray surprised many people by being a punk band that had a pop song or two.

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teamevil 2 points 3 years ago

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errer 4 points 3 years ago

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

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schmidtster 11 points 3 years 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?

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TropicalDingdong 8 points 3 years ago

Also standing there for 45 minutes to listen to the entire thing? Who actually does that?

Me. It was me. I was 14. I listened to the whole thing. I think the name of the store was "The Warehouse" and maybe another was called "Good Guys"? But yeah. Both. I'd take the bus to the mall and sit on that raggedy ass carpet that smelled like a movie theater floor and listened to the whole damn album. All of them actually (usually like 6-8 per station?) until the manager told me to leave. A couple times clerks would hook me up with burned demos.

But yeah. It was me.

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explodicle 5 points 3 years ago

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

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Franconian_Nomad 2 points 3 years 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.

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Gurfaild 16 points 3 years ago

In the 2000s, some electronics stores where I lived had "jukeboxes" with headphones and a barcode scanner, so you could listen to 30-second snippets of the songs on an album before buying it.

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Track_Shovel 10 points 3 years ago

I'm old enough to know the pencil trick to fix a cassette that got eaten by the stereo....

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DharmaCurious 6 points 3 years ago

I still keep a pencil in my car. I know there's no cassette to play, but my car feels naked with a pencil rolling around the center console or in the little tray on the dash.

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Lileath 1 point 3 years ago

I also learned how to do this as a child but I am probably a bit younger than you at 18yo.

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Getawombatupya 2 points 3 years ago

"Old or poor..."

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Lileath 1 point 3 years ago

It was less that we were poor and more that my parents had a lot of music and radio dramas on different media. My father still has more than two hundred vinyl disks that he plays semiregularly and I have an old audio tape player/recorder sitting around in my bedroom although I don't really use that one.

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thelsim 6 points 3 years ago

God, I miss test listens. My favorite record store was very easy going in this, they'd happily let me stand there listening to most of the CD. The unspoken rule was that if you spend that much time listening, you're going to buy it anyway.
One of the few shops where I always felt welcome.

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grue 6 points 3 years ago

Also 1999 already had Napster

Only half of it, apparently! I just looked it up to check, and it turns out it launched on June 1 of that year.

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SpaceNoodle 3 points 3 years ago

Never saw a music shop with a communal CD player that allowed you to remove the CD shrink wrap.

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RickyRigatoni 117 points 3 years ago

You buy a Sony CD and decide to play it on your computer.

Your computer now has a rootkit installed.

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rbos 51 points 3 years ago

And these days people just install the rootkit, only it's allegedly to prevent game cheating.

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hackris 21 points 3 years ago

And, when called out, everyone tells you you're a paranoid, tinfoil hat wearing, organ trafficking criminal

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c0mbatbag3l -2 points 3 years ago

That's because you guys throw around the word "rootkit" like my parents call everything "woke" or "communist."

You probably couldn't even define what a rootkit is yet you're scared shitless of a thing you can't properly define.

So yeah, anyone who's afraid of something they don't even understand fully is absolutely paranoid.

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rbos 9 points 3 years ago

Most people are not fully cognizant of the rights they sign away in a click through. There is paranoid and there is prudent.

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vox 6 points 3 years ago

well the game installs a kernel module without my consent. Isn't that the definition of a rootkit?

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vox 6 points 3 years ago

yeah maybe just design proper authoritative servers instead?
anticheats are kinda a band-aid solution.

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Cort 3 points 3 years ago

Or maybe bring back self hosted servers so you can roll your own

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vox 1 point 3 years ago

slef hosted servers don't solve cheating on their own either.
proper authoritive server shouldn't send or accept any information that isn't strictly necessary, like positions of players that are in a completely different part of the map

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aniki 1 point 3 years ago

Viva la Gamespy!

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foggy 27 points 3 years ago

"most people who had the rootkit installed on their machine dont know what a rootkit is anyways; why should I care?"

-sony's response

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explodicle 23 points 3 years ago

I STILL don't buy Sony shit because of that. They booby trapped their product and idiots still buy it. There are plenty of competitors who don't do that.

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schmidtster 10 points 3 years ago

Or they just haven’t been caught yet.

It would be naive to think it’s a singular event.

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explodicle 8 points 3 years ago

Certainly not singular, but it's very difficult to get away with this undetected because the end user gets physical access to the hardware.

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schmidtster 2 points 3 years ago

Linux is open source, and they had a malware for 10 years that was undetected.

Having access means nothing if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Rootkits are serious problems.

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AVincentInSpace 47 points 3 years ago

i'm curious now

usually censorship is used to replace a strong word with a milder one, or to change the meaning of the text

what word in this meme was so egregious that OP saw fit to replace it with "fucking"

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wh0_cares 41 points 3 years ago

My best guess is that it originally was "fucking," someone censored it to something like "hecking," then someone else censored the censor back to "fucking"

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Misconduct 12 points 3 years ago

I kinda love this journey though

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kamen 13 points 3 years ago

Who doesn't love fucking?

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BodilessGaze 5 points 3 years ago

Asexuals?

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backhdlp 42 points 3 years ago

No wonder piracy was so popular

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noobdoomguy8658 28 points 3 years ago

1999 piracy mostly consisted of paying for a pirated copy that someone decided to make profit off; most likely, they weren't the person to make the (first!) copy, and they're not even sure what's on the thing they were selling you. It was mostly bootlegging.

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grue 4 points 3 years ago

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TowardsTheFuture 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah I think maybe he meant before 1999. Before Napster(99)/limewire(2000)/morpheus(2001) pirating was bootlegged shit you paid (less) for. But yeah after 99 you got that shit for free on the internet.

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ThirdWorldOrder 1 point 3 years ago

Most people were still buying CDs in 99. In ‘99, $10 for an album would have been a pretty sweet price. Tower Records, Best Buy cds were all like $17.99

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Confuzzeled 3 points 3 years ago

When I was a kid we still recorded stuff off the radio and copied our zx spectrum games on the family hi-fi. I'd say good times but it's so much better now I can pirate everything in great quality from teh interwebs.

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Selmafudd 2 points 3 years ago

My memory is a little fuzzy with dates but I'm pretty sure Napster was going full steam by '99 but even before that we used to trade mp3 files on mIRC or ICQ+CuteFTP, I had hundreds of albums I never paid for which I am still amazed I managed to do over a shared 56k connection

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Getawombatupya 1 point 3 years ago

Like buying a game CD and a warez copy bypass and the crew doing an ASCII art walk through, bought for $5 from a classmate

Or shareware floppy disks with copyright bypass

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squiblet 10 points 3 years ago

In the pre-Internet early 90s, CDs were $15-25 (with inflation, about $40 now)…. And for a lot of music, you had no way of hearing it first. Shoplifting was popular.

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7u5k3n 5 points 3 years ago

Man came here to say this... Hell I was in a class action lawsuit in the early 2000s because of CD pricing. https://www.billboard.com/...

Shit was super expensive back in the day.

But as weird Al says... How else is he going to get a diamond encrusted swimming pool?

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SternburgExport 3 points 3 years ago

At least later on a lot of shops had these listening stations.

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ThirdWorldOrder 1 point 3 years ago

That’s why I always wore my umbro shorts with the inner liner before I went to Walmart

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kratoz29 1 point 3 years ago

For real... I never had this problem before... Currently I'm a proud Spotify user.

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SpaceNoodle 33 points 3 years ago

More like $20.

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mxcory 17 points 3 years ago

Got the censored version at Walmart.

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massive_bereavement 5 points 3 years ago

Uugh ..

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teamevil 2 points 3 years ago

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I_Clean_Here 31 points 3 years ago

You listen to it anyway and it grows on you.

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dolle 18 points 3 years ago

So much this! I don't use Spotify, I buy all my music on Bandcamp. Sometimes I buy an album after just hearing the first song because I find it interesting, but then after a few more listens I realize that the album is not what I thought it was. However, I'm already committed because I paid for it, and it now sits at the top of my collection, so I continue to listen to it. Sometimes it turns out I find qualities in the music that I didn't notice at the first listen, and I learn to like it. Sometimes not, and I ditch it.

This was also the way I discovered music before Spotify even existed, I just never changed my habits (I just used other services than Bandcamp back then). I think more people should try turning off the algorithmic entertainment faucet that is Spotify and try committing a bit more to the music that they listen to. Also, a lot more money goes to the artists this way, Spotify is basically stealing from the artists.

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spiderman 8 points 3 years ago

I buy all my music on Bandcamp.

How much have you spent on buying albums in Bandcamp? It must be a lot if Bandcamp is the your only choice for listening to music.

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dolle 7 points 3 years ago

I have 170 albums in my Bandcamp collection. I have a lot more on my mp3 collection which I have bought via other means. Each album is maybe $10 on average, so that is around $1700. I have used Bandcamp for around 8 years after 7digital closed their EU store and eMusic became trash. So that's around $17 per month. Not a lot of money in my book, music means a lot to me!

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spiderman 1 point 3 years ago

Okay, that's a large collection. I am more interested to buy vinyl these days but they are too expensive here.

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moonsnotreal 1 point 3 years ago

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PraiseTheSoup 31 points 3 years ago

Conversely, you buy a CD from a band you've never heard of just because you like the album art or maybe even the title or the band name, and you find out it's a god damn masterpiece from start to finish. This is how I discovered Audioslave almost 20 years ago and it's the best $14 I ever spent. I still have the disc btw and it still plays perfectly.

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oatscoop 7 points 3 years ago

That album showed me how to live.

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NewAgeOldPerson 3 points 3 years ago

But it didn't give you life... Wait, did it?

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PraiseTheSoup 2 points 3 years ago

Technically the one I bought on a whim back then was Out of Exile, which I would now consider the weakest of the three, but I liked it enough to seek out more.

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greenkarmic 6 points 3 years ago

That's how I bought the Hybrid Theory album from Linkin Park. Took a chance, knew nothing about them.

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unphazed 3 points 3 years ago

This was LD50 for me

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altima_neo 28 points 3 years ago

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.

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Cort 7 points 3 years ago

There was also a market for used CDs back in the day so you could sell it and buy another

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altima_neo 2 points 3 years ago

The still a few stores around here in Portland trading CDs and vinyl

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aniki 1 point 3 years ago

Still is!

Discogs.com

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MadBigote 4 points 3 years ago

I used to go to Tower Records to listen to albums. Never bought a single cd.

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ILikeBoobies 3 points 3 years ago

Napster was 99

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altima_neo 1 point 3 years ago

I was talking those CDs from the library and loading them onto my Rio PMP

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Skullgrid 2 points 3 years ago

shout out to the Dalston Virgin for showing me the world of DJ Yoda

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PipedLinkBot 0 points 3 years ago

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.

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HurlingDurling 27 points 3 years ago

If it's 1999, you would go to a record store if you wanted to buy an album and depending on the store the would have a sampler disk and could tell you if it sucked or not. Also, if the songs where good you would have billboard to tell you how good it was as well as your local radio station.

Or you could just open Napster and download the whole album for free.

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samus12345 10 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I like how this is pretending that the internet didn't exist in 1999 because there was no Spotify or iTunes.

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Lucidlethargy 26 points 3 years ago

Then you realize you aren't paying $20 a month, and you buy a new album, that you fucking OWN forever.

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Polar 9 points 3 years ago

$20 CAD gets you a family plan that you can share up to 5 people, so $4 CAD each.

Not sure what you're on about. If you're paying $20 for Spotify you're getting ripped off.

Or you can pay $25 CAD for YouTube Premium, share it with 5 people, and get both YouTube ad free AND YouTube Music for $5 CAD per month.

I'd rather pay $4/$5 per month to access millions of songs than $20 for an album that I will get bored of in a few months, thanks.

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Demuniac 26 points 3 years ago

You would rarely buy random cd's or whatnot. You would hear one or 2 songs on the radio, or from a friend, or you already loved the artist. You'd loan it from the library, or spend 30 min listening to it in the store.

Then you would come home and set it on repeat for weeks. Even the tracks on the CD that were less good, you would appreciate.

I definitely preferred how much I cared for the music back then a lot more. Even pre-Napster.

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foggy 24 points 3 years ago

1999?

Try $20.

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tpihkal 19 points 3 years ago

Where the hell you buying CDs for $10 in 1999?

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enthusiasticamoeba 7 points 3 years ago

The standard price where I grew up was $13. Feels like a steal these days.

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tpihkal 1 point 3 years ago

I don't think any CD I ever wanted enough to buy was less than $16. My family was poor so cassette tapes were still a thing for quite a while.

By the time I could start thinking about affording CDs, I'd already seen the movie Hackers (1994) and was convinced everything would be digital really fucking fast.

I started converting my CDs in the Napster era.

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enthusiasticamoeba 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah, I only had a handful of CDs because they were too expensive! I jumped on the napster train and got a CD burner as soon as I could.

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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ackzsel 18 points 3 years ago

$10 would get a you a CD where the 3rd track is also the last.

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Rehwyn 7 points 3 years ago

Yup. I seem to remember most mainstream albums were around $15-20 in the 1990s. Adjusted for inflation, that'd be about $28-37 today.

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happyhippo 17 points 3 years ago

At least you fucking OWN the thing, tho

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Evotech 13 points 3 years ago

Yet I don't have any of them anymore

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Ibex0 5 points 3 years ago

I guess they're in a closet.... Deep in the back.

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eochaid 16 points 3 years ago

The better comparison with Spotify is that it's a mafia that you pay $11 / month for the rest of your life and they give you a bunch of free music but if you ever stop paying, they'll bust into your house and take it all away.

Vs. spending $10 for an album you might not like but you can sell it, give it to a friend, or put it in storage for 10 years until you find it during a move and realize your tastes changed and now this album fucking rocks (happened to me with a few things).

Oh and Bandcamp ftw. You can listen to most albums free for a few times and when you buy it, you own it forever w/o DRM - plus if you buy a hardcopy, you get a digital one included. I used to use Napster like that - as a shit quality preview of an album I might end up buying later.

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teamevil 5 points 3 years ago

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eochaid 1 point 3 years ago

Okay, but they give you DRM free downloads. If EPIC kills them, you still own every album as long as you download it. I'll be sad if Bandcamp dies, but I can still play all music I got from it. That's the way it should be.

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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HKayn 1 point 3 years ago

Why is it a shit head company?

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squiblet 16 points 3 years ago

There were so many shitty albums I bought for $16 in the early 90s (even worse, that's like $30 now) and had the exact experience in the meme. Things like we loved the first Suicidal Tendencies album, bought the second and were 'wtf is this?' The only way we had to pick out death metal was based on the cover art and record label... put it in the CD player, okay, good guitar sound... just have to wait until the guy sings.... that pretty much decided it.

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Diabolo96 9 points 3 years ago

Death metal

wait until the guy sings

(｡╯︵╰｡)

MFW the main singer guttural scream isn't as good as in the last album.

/jk

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squiblet 5 points 3 years ago

With a new band you never know. It could be a low, murky graaar like Immolation or Bolt Thrower… or a higher pitch like most Entombed (I prefer Clandestine where some bassist from another band sang, but most people don’t, for some reason). Or it could be like Deicide where the singer is mainly good then they cheapen it with this cheesy high pitched thing…. Carcass where the singer is h medium pitched and sounds good, then they also have a low guttural voice thrown in here and there, which was alright. Or maybe all is well and it’s the perfect Morbid Angel vocals.

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abraxas 3 points 3 years ago

Sounds like a Theatre of Tragedy problem.

"Fuck that shit. We'll fire the singer that put us on the map because she was only supposed to be a back-up, and then we'll go full techno".

(as you may guess, I never got over it. Also, I know this full-techno song was still w/ Liv Kristine, but they stayed techno-ey and I picked a song I don't actually hate)

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PipedLinkBot 1 point 3 years ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

and then we'll go full techno

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Diabolo96 1 point 3 years ago

I tried to listen the song and it's not really my cup of tea. It felt almost psychedelic.

I for the most cases , don't enjoy any screaming and neither vocals for that matter. That's why I mostly will only listen to instrumental pieces of the metal genre like the doom ost. Nothing else matters is an exception but that song is more of ballad.

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abraxas 2 points 3 years ago

Exactly! Compare to Rose for the Dead, which is arguably (ok, my opinion) the most solid "Beauty and the Beast" genre death metal song ever written.

Of course, there ARE vocals, but as I say, totally different genre.

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teamevil 2 points 3 years ago

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mathterdark 14 points 3 years ago

Discovery of new music is so much easier now with Spotify/YouTube/etc. In the past you had a slim-to-none chance of coming across a band/artist/album outside your local scene, no matter what the genre. Back then you kind of had to be "in the know" for that to happen.

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beastlykings 6 points 3 years ago

Spotify maybe, I've never used it. And Google Play music used to be the best for this, but YouTube music has me stuck in a loop of my last 10 or 20 songs and I hate it.

If I'm listening to some techno, and I change gears to old school country/bluegrass for awhile, then, YouTube will never ever recommend techno to me again. Not unless I manually remember some of my favorite songs, search for them, and retrain it that I like techno. But then of course country slowly dies. God forbid I mix in hard rock, punk rock, or rap. It just confuses it more.

And it's not just a genre problem, even within a genre of repeats the same dozen or two songs every time I open the app.

It's not just me, I have a family plan and my brothers have both separately complained to me about the algorithms being worse than Google Play music, which is what we used to use.

I literally created a playlist called YouTube music sucks, where I save my most liked songs, so I can reseed the algorithm when I want a change of tunes. I need the playlist because I have a terrible memory and can't remember all the songs I've liked.

Why don't I change? Because I'm cheap, and it's bundled with YouTube premium for the whole family. And it has no right to be as bad as it is. I keep thinking they're gonna fix it, but I guess maybe people like being spoon fed their last 20 liked songs?

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maltasoron 2 points 3 years ago

Spotify is really good with recommendations. I think they use different algorithms for the different personal playlists: the Release Radar seems to use my followed artists and all my playlists, while Discover Weekly uses my recent listening history.

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cyclohexane 13 points 3 years ago

I pirated all mine.

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theangryseal 7 points 3 years ago

Me too. That is when I discovered the rarest Nirvana song of all time. It was Freak by Silverchair. It took me an hour to download it.

I also had the entire collection of songs Bill Clinton sang about blowjobs and Monica Lewinsky. Like, literally that’s all the dude sang about. Talk about being obsessed.

I could go on. What a great time it was to be alive.

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teamevil 2 points 3 years ago

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aniki 2 points 3 years ago

I dubbed mix tapes off the radio in the early 90s and got into burning CDs in the late 90s. I was a cheap ass pirate even back in the day. Also ripped a LOT of my friends CDs to cassette tape. My dad used to buy packs wholesale.

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n0m4n 13 points 3 years ago

Reminds me of boxed software, too. You check the compatibility, the features that included one must-have new feature. Buy it and discover what vaporware is. It started me on the ethics of pirating, finding out if it actually works, and then, and only then, buying a real copy. I donate to developers on Linux, now.

And Bandcamp.

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teamevil 8 points 3 years ago

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kamenlady 6 points 3 years ago

You were done after napster?

I mean, it really only started to take off with eDonkey. napster was still very slow and so much malware disguised as mp3 files.

You didn't even have to think about storage solutions. Even if i had my ISDN Connection bundled ( no phone line free for calls then ), the speed was max 128 Kbps.

Sorry, i suddenly remembered these details, from a long long time ago.

50% were laid off. This after Songtradr had commited to keep the Bandcamp experience the same.

The union was for nothing. Epic just sold, before any agreement wss made and again a few made a lot, while employees must endure whatever comes.

This fucking sucks big time.

The Internet as we knew it, is fading away and we just can hope that our privacy and an open internet are not only things we remember fondly, in a few years.

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teamevil 2 points 3 years ago

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kamenlady 1 point 3 years ago

In the 2000s i was always looking for music and found a Forum from Ukraine called FunkySouls that covered all new releases and was active until a few days after Russia invaded. There were some threads with excellent taste and i really miss those guys.

Cuntroll from Russia also has some good artists.

After i found that Moon Wiring Club was on Bandcamp, i took a look around and found a lot of good music. When i buy something, it's usually from Bandcamp.

I saw Kyuss live a loong time ago, thanks for the tip. This made me think of Boris' new EP "me when the when i". They were always a tad too experimental for me to keep them on repeat. Their newest album though, is a very very smooth release - chill ass rock describes it perfectly.

I also stumbled on the label subsist on Bandcamp some time ago and have gotten almost all releases and eagerly waiting for new releases. Excellent raw electronics.

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HeneryHawk 2 points 3 years ago

How could a .MP3 file be malware?

How was Napster slower than any other P2P client?

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kamenlady 1 point 3 years ago

Oh, they weren't mp3 files. Iirc it was stuff like darude-sandstorm-live-mp3.exe or eminem-without-me-mp3.exe.

It wasn't Napster's fault, ISDN at the time was what most people had. 1 internet + 1 phone line. You got online with max 68 Kbps. Bundling both lines got you 128 Kbps, then the phone line would be obviously busy giving you more speed, rendering the phone unusable.

Those were fun times in households with more than 1 member.

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pascal 12 points 3 years ago

$10 for an album? You lucky dog, here one album CD costs at that time around $25.

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0x2d 11 points 3 years ago

napster :)

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populustree 1 point 3 years ago

napster baaaad

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stewsters 1 point 3 years ago

Yeah. If we are talking 99-2001ish Napster was king.

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julianwgs 10 points 3 years ago

It‘s 2023, you can still listen to the same shitty music, because it is yours to keep.

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zammy95 4 points 3 years ago

I'm assuming you're saying still listen to the same shit music you BOUGHT back then?

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julianwgs 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, the comment was meant as criticism of the streaming era packaged as a joke

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abraxas 1 point 3 years ago

The sad truth. I threw out my CD binders at least 10 years ago. I still have some of that uploaded to the cloud, but I've swapped provider a few times and probably lost some.

And more often, I Just listen on spotify or youtube music.

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abraxas 1 point 3 years ago

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Ibex0 10 points 3 years ago

CDs were up to $16 when I was making less that $10/hr at work. 😢

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doublejay1999 10 points 3 years ago

If you got 3 tracks off a hip hop album you’d nailed it.

Yes, there are exceptions, we now call them classics

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hemko 8 points 3 years ago

Oh I would listen the shit album 100 times and memorize the lyrics for each song. It might have been bad album, but it was mine and I was so excited to bring it home.

But also I was very young

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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paultimate14 8 points 3 years ago

But you owned it. So you could sell the CD and recoup almost all of your money.

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Tedrow 14 points 3 years ago

Not sure who you were selling your CDs too to get almost all your money back. Maybe if you sold it to a friend.

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squiblet 1 point 3 years ago

A used music store or pawn shop

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Peaty 3 points 3 years ago

Except you couldn't? You would get $1-2 bucks for most used tapes/LPs/Cds.

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paultimate14 2 points 3 years ago

Maybe if you tried to sell at FYE. But a local flea market? You could totally get $10-$15 depending on what it was and how much it cost initially.

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lorty 3 points 3 years ago

The person who made this meme is too young to know about reselling stuff they own.

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Glytch 7 points 3 years ago

It's 1999. Why are you paying for music at all? Napster still exists for you.

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grahamja 6 points 3 years ago

Only about 4% of the worlds population had internet access in 1999.

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Dra 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah and good luck with the 500mb montly cap!!

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Fiivemacs 1 point 3 years ago

And the internet was so much better then...the masses of people ruined it

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Getawombatupya 1 point 3 years ago

Alternate take - spend 3 minutes downloading a 3 minute song. Buy the album. The rest of the album blows. You just worked for two hours to pay for it in your minimum wage after school casual job

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ohlaph 7 points 3 years ago

It was like that though.

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RadButNotAChad 6 points 3 years ago

Napster was reparations for Soul Asylums Strangers With Candy album.

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squiblet 2 points 3 years ago

For me, it's every Metallica album after Justice For All, and Lars Ulrich can definitely fuck off.

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NaoPb 6 points 3 years ago

Back in those days you could listen to the record/cassette/cd in the store before you bought it. They would have these headphones you could use.

So it's not as big of a problem as this meme would make it seem.

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sadie_sorceress 1 point 3 years ago

The music shop at the mall near me had those headphones but only like 10 albums that were able to demo. And I'm pretty sure the demo was just bits of the songs. I definitely bought plenty of CDs having heard only one track or fewer.

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NaoPb 1 point 3 years ago

Oh, that sucks. Mine had like some headphones at the counter with a few buttons in the counter itself. And you would just hand the person behind the counter the cd you wanted to listen to and they'd put it in.

But from what I saw on old footage was they just had a line of a few turntables with headphones and you could just listen to the records.

This may have been the mom and pop shops and not the chain shops. Though I don't know about that.

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corsicanguppy 6 points 3 years ago

I bought Finger11 for paralyzed and then realized it was by far their best track.

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Jesse 1 point 3 years ago

What? That's their sell-out pop song. The rest of their stuff is way better.

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scytale 3 points 3 years ago

When people who didn't like rock/metal bought an Extreme album because they thought all the songs were like More Than Words.

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BruceTwarzen 8 points 3 years ago

I'll never forget walking into a record store, looking at a cannibal corpse album. The guy working there looked at me and said if i want the album for free. I was a teen with like 9 dollars to my name so i said of course, thank you. When i asked why he said: because it FUCKING SUCKS.

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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Peaty 2 points 3 years ago

While the shred guitar nerds were wondering what the fuck Nuno Bettancourt was playing with that track.

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son_named_bort 3 points 3 years ago

Somebody bought the Chris Gaines album.

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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stolid_agnostic 3 points 3 years ago

Try $20 of disappointing CD.

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Uniquitous 2 points 3 years ago

And there are only 6 tracks, and also the CD was $20.

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paultimate14 2 points 3 years ago

They are typically 45-60 minutes. Which could be 1 long song, or 20+ short songs.

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ianhclark510 2 points 3 years ago

This post brought to you by Dopesmoker

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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ianhclark510 1 point 3 years ago

I thought Dopesmoker was released by Tee Pee lol

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Uniquitous 0 points 3 years ago

Dude, I was there. I lived it. Step off.

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paultimate14 2 points 3 years ago

Bruh I'm looking over at my shelf of CD's from the time.

But let's look at the best selling albums that came out in 1999, the year referenced in the meme.

Backstreet Boys - Millennium - 12 tracks
Britney Spears - Baby One More Time - 11 tracks (or more, depending on the version)
Santana - Supernatural - 13 tracks
Celine Dion - All the Way... A Decade of Song - 16 tracks (kind of weird as it's a compilation)
Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin - 14 Tracks
Blink-182 - Enema of the State - 12 tracks
RHCP - Calofornication - 15 tracks
Christina Aguilera - Christina Aguilera - 12 tracks (I think? I'm only finding re-releases that include more bonus tracks now)
Creed - Human Clay - 11 tracks
Dido - No Angel - 12 tracks

Maybe back in the day you mistakenly bought singles instead of albums?

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abraxas 1 point 3 years ago

Mostly THAT was EPs. Some of the best albums are EPs, but they're short.

Rose for the Dead EP, was my favorite one. 6 songs.

NIN Broken was 8 songs.

A lot of punk albums have plenty of songs, but they're so short some of them have terrible play times. OpIvy Energy (the first bootleg I ever had) is only about 35 minutes long and the whole thing mostly fit on one side of a (small) cassette tape.

I could probably find more, but that's just off the top of my head.

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ThatFembyWho 1 point 3 years ago

Hey that was the soundtrack to high school. I downloaded half of them on dialup, via Napster/Gnutella/whatever.

#7 is one of the only ones you'll hear to this day.

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Uniquitous 1 point 3 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jar_of_Flies I rest my case you condescending asshat.

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TokyoMonsterTrucker 2 points 3 years ago

Worse: you're a DJ in 1998 and spend $12 for a 6 minute B-side.

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basketugly 1 point 3 years ago

If it happened to you in 1999 then you are just probably dumb as fuck because plenty of available information across the nation (~$16-18)

If it happened in 1992, you would be big sad and harder to find out more info pre-buy ($10-12)

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gianmarco 1 point 3 years ago

Couldn't you just get it back to the store and get a refund?

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JewGoblin 1 point 3 years ago

just be a Pirate, and support your fav artist if you enjoy their work

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lickmysword 1 point 3 years ago

Bought reanimation by Linkin park. The mecha album art is better than the remixes imo. Also the larger reason I bought it lol.

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littlecolt 1 point 3 years ago

Someone explain this format to me, please. Why is one weird highlighted?

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YourMomsTrashman 4 points 3 years ago

It feels like a result of someone reposting/screencapping and censoring the f-word, then a reposter trying to put it back

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ComradeR 1 point 3 years ago

I didn't used internet in the 1990s. But I used it in the early 2000s and Kazaa was my music goldmine, even when I downloaded something I was looking for.

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bobs_monkey 2 points 3 years ago

Lincoln Park_Last Resort.mp3
drdre_ginandjuice.wma
Brittanyspearsboobs.exe

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 1 point 3 years ago

it probably would be worse if you bought it in the most expensive format

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teamevil 1 point 3 years ago

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