Not American

Was this a music chain?

There are a lot of albums that came out during the cassette/vinyl era that had bloat lmao

Nah man, 80s/90s electronic pop with the lo-fi medium is great. Cheap as hell. No big storage fuss like vinyl. Just play one side if you don't feel like hearing a full project. Really enjoyable.

I will admit I’m guilty of never having used a high quality cassette player, so all the tapes I’ve ever heard have always sounded mid to me

There's a hard limit on runtime, on two separate sides, which discourages bloat in general.

Yeah

“For Your Entertainment”

I vividly remember always wanting to go in and listen to s***

I think they had little other stuff too like movies and bumper stickers

For the most part yeah. They sold CDs, cassette tapes, vinyls, DVDs/Blu-Rays, fan merch, and all that kinda stuff. One of my favorite stores growing up cause you could find DVDs for concerts and festivals

when I went to buy a cd and realized it was a digital only release

I'm not an "audiophile". Youtube is 126kbps and I'll listen to stuff on there. Don't care lol

Bloat still existed. There were trash albums released in the 70s, 80s, 90s, etc too lmao

Wtf? Pics

Wow, you're blowing me away with your insight. Thank you so much

Laptops with no CD drives

MacBook Air ?

I remember thinking it would never work because there were no CD drives on that thing

I dont remember what cd it was, but it happened again recently with J. Cole's Off Season

Quit acting like a ho bruh lmao just because albums were shorter due to the constraints of the technology available doesn't mean all of them were good. You're still gonna get albums with bloat. The Side-A/Side-B s*** only meant what can be stored on a tape/vinyl. Had nothing to do with the quality of a project or that you could skip the bloat/bad tracks on an album.

Nigga getting a lil attitude over cassette tapes

when bestbuy pulled them off the shelves , the day that shook the masses to the core ,_,

Guy is double posting in his feelings rn. Hate to see it

Says f***ing who

I truthfully don’t see any physical media coming back to the mainstream tbh

i think it was more gradual for me. when i got an ipod i probably never bought another cd since i didn’t need to use my cd player but i still synced them all up with itunes. after that i just bought s*** on itunes or downloaded it off the internet/limewire. eventually in like 2014 i got spotify and realized cds were done. there was no use for them when you just automatically had every album on your phone

F***ing hell what a throwback