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Where we got Music in the last 30 years

RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
edited April 2012 in All Encompassing Trip
http://bitsandpieces.us/2012/04/10/wher ... -30-years/

I wish you could freeze frame the graphic, but it's pretty amazing...
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,113
    RKCNDY wrote:
    http://bitsandpieces.us/2012/04/10/where-we-got-our-music-the-last-30-years/

    I wish you could freeze frame the graphic, but it's pretty amazing...
    LP making a comeback. :)
    Who were these people with all those CDs in the mid-80s??? I don't remember even knowing they existed until maybe 1990! Was I just a loser kid with cheap parents or something?
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • RKCNDYRKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    PJ_Soul wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    http://bitsandpieces.us/2012/04/10/where-we-got-our-music-the-last-30-years/

    I wish you could freeze frame the graphic, but it's pretty amazing...
    LP making a comeback. :)
    Who were these people with all those CDs in the mid-80s??? I don't remember even knowing they existed until maybe 1990! Was I just a loser kid with cheap parents or something?

    :lol::lol::lol:
    I remember my parent getting a 5 disc CD player in the late 80s...it cost something like $500
    CDs were $18.99
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • SatansFutonSatansFuton Posts: 5,399
    I remember my brother got a CD player for Christmas in the late 80's. It was actually a CD/Cassette/Record player. I didn't understand why he needed it, I thought tapes were fine myself.

    Remember the packaging CDs used to come in? It was a long box that about a foot long, kind of pointless, with the jewel case inside.
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  • KathiKathi Posts: 1,828
    I have a pretty clear memory of my parents first getting a stereo system that featured a cd player in like 1992/3...I know I was in school already, but not more than 1st or 2nd grade.

    I bought my first records on cassettes still, CDs were super expensive (if my town's awful shop had what I wanted, which barely was the case), cost about 20-25€ there.
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,113
    Kathi wrote:
    I have a pretty clear memory of my parents first getting a stereo system that featured a cd player in like 1992/3...I know I was in school already, but not more than 1st or 2nd grade.

    I bought my first records on cassettes still, CDs were super expensive (if my town's awful shop had what I wanted, which barely was the case), cost about 20-25€ there.
    I didn't even get my first cassette until 1989 (when my cheapo parents finally swung for one of those shitty white plastic double cassette girly ghetto blasters for my birthday - I had to get PJ's first 4 albums on cassette :cry: ). My first cassette purchase: Ice-T's The Iceberg. lol. And thus began a long decade of creating mix tapes. Sigh.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • DS1119DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    I had my first CD player I think in 1986. My parents got it for me and the first CD they bought me...George Michael. Thanks Mom. :lol:
  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    That's pretty cool...although it's sad to see the green slice get smaller and smaller...
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I first got a CD player in 1992. My dad gave me 2 CD's (Bryan Adams and Phil Collins :lol: ) It wasn't until a few months later I got Ten on CD. Been rockin ever since.
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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    LMAO I love this thread.. I actually STILL have about two hundred cassettes.. most are pretty fucking shot, but they hold so many memories..I just can't part with them. I never got my first CD player til 1990 when I got my first job training horses and actually started making REAL money versus just minimum wage..BUT until that day I used to take my walkman and tie it ( hooked up to outboard speakers) to the lace strings of my saddle so I could listen to my music on my horses.. I was the only person onsite at shows whose horse had a stereo!!LOL
  • dougfloyddougfloyd Fishers, IN Posts: 2,583
    I remember my dad bought a 5 disc changer in like 1992 or something. Sad to say but the first CD I bought was Bobby Brown :oops: followed at some point by this...

    wreckxneffects-300x299.jpg
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  • afroannnieafroannnie Posts: 12,995
    dougfloyd wrote:
    I remember my dad bought a 5 disc changer in like 1992 or something. Sad to say but the first CD I bought was Bobby Brown :oops: followed at some point by this...

    wreckxneffects-300x299.jpg

    All I wanna do is zoom-a-zoom - JUST SHAKE YA RUMP! :lol:
    Show #13 was a lucky one for me....
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