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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Who remembers these things in stores
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Posted: 7/14/2022 3:48:49 AM EST
I remember those.
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Posted: 7/14/2022 3:54:10 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: Millennials  Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I remember them for cds. Millennials Not sure if serious. I can remember CDs being sold around where I live back in 1989, and I think my town was last on the list for everything. |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 3:59:38 AM EST
They became a thing when kids were stealing cassette tapes from K-Mart, ALCO, and the likes.
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Posted: 7/14/2022 4:02:26 AM EST
I remember them on CDs, but buying cassettes was a little before my time (born in 1991). I did use cassettes regularly as a kid, but I don't think I ever shopped for any.
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Posted: 7/14/2022 4:05:58 AM EST
Quote History Thought of one of these when I clicked |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 6:11:05 AM EST
I remember them well. Going to the mall to the music store. Soundtrack to Breakfast Club. Stop Making Sense by The Talking Heads.
What a time to be alive. |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 6:15:46 AM EST
Didn’t need them for 8-tracks
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Posted: 7/14/2022 6:17:53 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: I remember those, I have a box of cassettes in the basement.  And I remember these too.  https://preview.redd.it/8ob9w493aza11.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f600eed3bcd763617a08a62740e28c0dc823d98e Did you stick it in the hole? |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 6:30:17 AM EST
I remember flipping through LPs at School Kids Records, nearly half a century ago.
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Posted: 7/14/2022 6:46:09 AM EST
I used to buy the album, and then copy it to cassette so that I could listen to it in my car.
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Posted: 7/14/2022 6:58:42 AM EST
I'm still trying to figure what the fuck is that plastic for?
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Posted: 7/14/2022 12:22:55 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: I used to buy the album, and then copy it to cassette so that I could listen to it in my car. Same here, also to preserve the album. |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 12:29:32 PM EST
I remember them on CDs and audio tapes. Don't recall them on videotapes.
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Posted: 7/14/2022 12:31:09 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: I'm still trying to figure what the fuck is that plastic for? Made them bulkier so they were harder to hide to steal them, I assume. |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 12:46:22 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: More-so the tall CD boxes, but yeah... 
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Posted: 7/14/2022 12:50:19 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: My store had those. Behind a plexiglass wall that you stuck your hand through. If you wanted to tape, you would drop it and the conveyor would take it to the cashier. Rough neighborhood Our Target store had that! You could put your hands through the holes to look at tapes, and then you had to call a cashier to unlock the case to get your tape. Decent neighborhood, though (First Target in Roseville, MN) but kleptos will be kleptos when it comes to the latest music. |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 2:34:34 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: Made them bulkier so they were harder to hide to steal them, I assume. Pfft! All you need are two razor blades to pop open the clips and you are golden  |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 2:47:55 PM EST
Back in the 1980s, I think I bought most of my music at Jamesway. There were a few other places (Bradlees, Phar-Mor, K-Mart) but most if it was Jamesway for some reason. They put those things on everything, even 7 inch records.
I remember my Bon Jovi cassettes, my Genesis and Europe records, Grateful Dead, ...the 80s were a good time. We were too poor for CDs so that didn't even come around for me until the 1990s. Records and cassettes only, and we wouldn't buy a "fancy" cassette player that could rewind so I had to take the tape out, switch sides, and fast forward. That was fun. One of the bars we used to eat at had both cigarette vending machines and an electronic shuffle bowling machine. Those things were awesome.  #621 Williams TAURUS Shuffle Bowling Alley - 1979 - TNT Amusements  #649 Williams BIG STRIKE Shuffle Bowling Alley Restored! TNT Amusements |
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Posted: 7/14/2022 5:47:09 PM EST
Yep. I remember those. If all the old timers in this thread, joined forces with the old farts in the monkey blood thread. We might get one of them up to 4 pages. If one of us doesn't break a hip first.
 I guess I didn't realize that GenX is now considered old.
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Posted: 7/15/2022 4:53:03 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: Yep. I remember those. If all the old timers in this thread, joined forces with the old farts in the monkey blood thread. We might get one of them up to 4 pages. If one of us doesn't break a hip first. I guess I didn't realize that GenX is now considered old.In 3 years us first year Genx folks hit 60. Time flies |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 4:57:08 AM EST
Well how else was the store supposed to prevent your once-teenaged self from stealing the KISS "Alive" album on cassette tape, back in the day?
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Posted: 7/15/2022 5:00:46 AM EST
Quote History Cig Machine |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 6:40:39 AM EST
I remember when 8 track cassettes were the thing to have in your car sonny! I'd blast down the road in my 66 Chevelle with loud mufflers and playing Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild so loud it damaged my hearing to this day.
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Posted: 7/15/2022 6:50:26 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: Made them bulkier so they were harder to hide to steal them, I assume. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 6:53:23 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: Didn't need them for 8-tracks I still have a box of them.
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:10:08 AM EST
 Worked at a music shop from '89 to '92. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:23:29 AM EST
This thread is great and full of old people
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:31:04 AM EST
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:44:49 AM EST
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:47:21 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: I remember as a kid going to the store with dad to test the TV tubes. I was the guy that had to haul those heavy ass console TV’s back to the repair shop when the problems were worse than a burnt out tube.
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:54:28 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: A local FM station used to play six albums straight through on Saturday night. I recorded many of them on fresh TDK SA cassettes. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: We were poor, I taped the radio A local FM station used to play six albums straight through on Saturday night. I recorded many of them on fresh TDK SA cassettes. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 7:57:42 AM EST
I definitely remember those, and I also remember the stupid large boxes that CDs came in when they first came out.
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Posted: 7/15/2022 8:12:15 AM EST
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Posted: 7/15/2022 8:25:57 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: Carry handles for when you're browsing in the music store. A lot of mine came from BMG music. They may have gotten paid for a few of them. Uhhh their first function was an anti theft device. Carry handles for honest people came second. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 8:26:32 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: CD and cassettes ??. I remember having a removable tape deck in my dads POS rambler Reminds me of my 1985 Ford Escort. Realistic ( Radio Shack ) Cassette player, Kraco Speaker / Power booster, and 6x9 speakers in the rear glass. ( No speaker boxes ) Just stuffed in each corner. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 8:43:32 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: I remember those, I have a box of cassettes in the basement. And I remember these too. https://preview.redd.it/8ob9w493aza11.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=f600eed3bcd763617a08a62740e28c0dc823d98e Never seeing one in my life, I was shocked, and confused when I came upon one in a Mexican store. The bathroom was clean, and staffed with attendants.
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Posted: 7/15/2022 8:59:06 AM EST
I used to work for a regional record chain back in the early 80's (Strawberries Records and Tapes).
Started out in one of the stores then took a position at the warehouse for more hours and money. The stores had some weird security system for buying cassettes. They were enclosed in a plastic frame similar to the one posted and were locked behind plexiglass with holes cut out just large enough you could put your hand through to grab a cassette but not large enough for the cassette to be removed. The customer had to drop the cassette with security device on a conveyor belt at the bottom of the displays and it would be transported to the cashier. Quoted: Quoted: More-so the tall CD boxes, but yeah... http://www.metcollectors.com/dands/photos/albums/cd/master_photos/mop_usa_longbox_02.jpg Remember the Ban the Box campaign? https://shortformernie.medium.com/compact-disc-longbox-history-4e5b91f7564 CD's had just came out when I was at the warehouse and unlike the albums and cassette tapes, they were locked up in a cage that only a few people had access to. Initially there were only a few artists/bands available. Predictable stuff like 'Dark Side of The Moon', 'Thriller', 'Sgt. Peppers', 'Led Zeppelin IV, etc and they weren't cheap. From my foggy recollection something like $20.00 in 81. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 9:02:45 AM EST
Quote History I remember the tube testers too. Drug stores had thrm as well. The local Treasure Island had one. I remember the sad/sick TV with a thermometer in its mouth...  |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 9:12:35 AM EST
Quote History Me and another Marine were leaning on one at the Brass Rail in Millington, Tn..A larger older woman walked up to us and asked, "You boys hogging tonight?" My buddy said said, "Not, yet" as he showed her our near empty beers. That is my fondest memory of a cigarette machine. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 9:29:54 AM EST
Quote History Quoted: I used to tape "Mandatory Metallica" on my local rock station (92.3 KSJO). It was the only way to get Metallica rarities (cheaply, at least) before they released Garage Inc. in 1998. Remenber dirty friday? |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 12:13:56 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: A local FM station used to play six albums straight through on Saturday night. I recorded many of them on fresh TDK SA cassettes. WLS-FM in Chicago did that too. They played one side of the album, did some commercials, then played the other side. No other interruptions. I taped many an album that way, as a poor young man. I think they were known as WDAI-FM when all this was going on, but they changed back and forth several times. |
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Posted: 7/15/2022 5:44:21 PM EST
Quote History Quoted: This thread is great and full of old people 
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