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minus-squaresquibletlinkfedilink12•2 years agoIn 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.
minus-square@7u5k3n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink5•2 years agoMan 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/music/music-news/cd-price-fixing-suit-settled-for-143-million-74008/ 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?
minus-square@SternburgExport@feddit.delinkfedilink4•2 years agoAt least later on a lot of shops had these listening stations.
minus-square@ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoThat’s why I always wore my umbro shorts with the inner liner before I went to Walmart
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.
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/music/music-news/cd-price-fixing-suit-settled-for-143-million-74008/
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?
At least later on a lot of shops had these listening stations.
That’s why I always wore my umbro shorts with the inner liner before I went to Walmart