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
It was like that though.
It's 1999. Why are you paying for music at all? Napster still exists for you.
Only about 4% of the worlds population had internet access in 1999.
If you got 3 tracks off a hip hop album you’d nailed it.
Yes, there are exceptions, we now call them classics
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.
I bought Finger11 for paralyzed and then realized it was by far their best track.
But you owned it. So you could sell the CD and recoup almost all of your money.
Except you couldn't? You would get $1-2 bucks for most used tapes/LPs/Cds.
The person who made this meme is too young to know about reselling stuff they own.
Napster was reparations for Soul Asylums Strangers With Candy album.
When people who didn't like rock/metal bought an Extreme album because they thought all the songs were like More Than Words.
