Society & Culture Things that Make You Feel Old

[Roobs321]

I remember the listening station at some sanity stores. One holidays in 1999 I listened to Limp Bizkit Significant Other a fair bit.

But I mostly lived well away from the city so it was a rare thing, the closer music stores weren’t really set up for that. Probably more the urban malls.

 

[Roobs321]

I guess twenty years ago when you had sample listens on the likes of Amazon and iTunes it sort of became irrelevant to have CD listening stations.

 

[Plugger35]

Yeah I remember listening stations.

One of the libraries I work at started up a vinyl collection and we loan out record players too. It's been hugely popular.

I think the Boomers miss the old days of going into a record store where you could chat to other music fans without a chatroom.

Gen X too, REM started back in the 80s when Peter Buck was working in a record store and Michael Stipe liked albums he liked.

I just wish I had met a kindred spirit back in my local 80s record store back when I bought Spandau Ballet's greatest hits album.

Communication let me down and I'm left here.

 

[Chicago1]

I only listen to my CDs and YouTube. I also have some vinyl and a turntable. Technology has left me behind

I have all of my 45s and LPs from the 60s and 70s and 80s cassettes and 90s CDs but nothing to play them on now. My oldest 45 is Wouldn't It Be Nice/God Only Knows by the Beach Boys from 1966. My records prior to 1975 are all American purchased.

I now only listen to Spotify and YouTube. I love YouTube. I spend way too much time on it.

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[Scotland]

You can still go to JB Hifi or specialty music stores and buy CDs, vinyl etc. but it's not the same as going to the music shop and hearing stuff for the first time. Gone are the days of going on Countdown or releasing your album via the most famous DJ on the radio. These days artists just release albums into thin air then 8 minutes later 500 million people have streamed them.

I remember going to a party which would've been early 2000s and one of the guys had a computer with a bunch of mp3s ripped onto it connected into the stereo. That was pretty high tech for the time when the alternative was putting in a CD, skipping to the track you want then changing the CD etc.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

I have all of my 45s and LPs from the 60s and 70s and 80s cassettes and 90s CDs but nothing to play them on now. My oldest 45 is Wouldn't It Be Nice/God Only Knows by the Beach Boys from 1966. My records prior to 1975 are all American purchased.

I now only listen to Spotify and YouTube. I love YouTube. I spend way too much time on it.

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I’ve got The Mamas and Papas’ If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears on vinyl, among others. And ABBA’s Waterloo that I found left on a seat at the airport!

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I love going crate digging when the record fair is on in Box Hill. I can (and do) spend hours there, usually buy 10 or so records and it only costs me around $150.

 

[Gough]

Heyday of vintage vinyl for nothing was the 90s when CDs ruled the world and everyone was binning their collections of records.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Heyday of vintage vinyl for nothing was the 90s when CDs ruled the world and everyone was binning their collections of records.

My dad got rid of 100s of records in the 90s

 

[Gough]

My dad got rid of 100s of records in the 90s

I got my parent's record collection in their divorce.

 

[Ivelisse]

God Only Knows by the Beach Boys

Ginnifer Goodwin is now 46

And Bill Paxton is dead!

 

[rocker_oz33]

Brashs and Sanity were the big 90s CD stores, Brashs bit the dust a long time ago and Sanity is now an online only music store.

I miss the old CD stores in shopping centres, that was one of the few stores I had any interest in, loved rifling in the bargain bin.

I brought my first stereo from Brashs I put it on laybuy saved up and paid it off .
Brought 2 X Double CDs cold chisle and Doors to go with it .

 

[GreyCrow]

Watching a poker stream and there is this old guy , grey hair tinge of red moustache , pretty tight player called Becker

Only to recognise his 1st name is Boris and it is indeed the tennis legend



(and he will be part of a viral video for the hand just played)

 

[Neese]

I think the Boomers miss the old days of going into a record store where you could chat to other music fans without a chatroom.

Gen X too, REM started back in the 80s when Peter Buck was working in a record store and Michael Stipe liked albums he liked.

I just wish I had met a kindred spirit back in my local 80s record store back when I bought Spandau Ballet's greatest hits album.

Communication let me down and I'm left here.

I am Gen x. The vinyl is being borrowed by teens and up to 80 year olds which is both awesome and a bit surprising. We usually have it playing and it's funny watching kids reactions to it. They have no idea what it is but are curious.

 

[Neese]

I have Mum's record player and some vinyl.

 

[Gough]

I am Gen x. The vinyl is being borrowed by teens and up to 80 year olds which is both awesome and a bit surprising. We usually have it playing and it's funny watching kids reactions to it. They have no idea what it is but are curious.

Unley library record collection filled plenty of gaps in my musical education.

 

[Neese]

Unley is a great Library.

 

[Gough]

Unley is a great Library.

Whoever bought their records in the 80s has my gratitude.

 

[Neese]

Whoever bought their records in the 80s has my gratitude.

Our music purchasing Librarian retired a few years ago and the collection has suffered for it. He was across world music, all genres and just has awesome taste. CDs are still hugely popular.

 

[rocker_oz33]

I have Mum's record player and some vinyl.

Vinyl records or vinyl pants

 

[Neese]

Oh Jesus. Nope before I had to sell her house to pay for her nursing home room we were going through her clothes together. She kept saying who let me buy that awful top etc.
She had some shocking outfits stacked away and despite her dementia could laugh about them.

 

[Scotland]

My dad got rid of 100s of records in the 90s

My dad gave me his records when he downsized, maybe 30 or 40 of them. Complete mixed bag from Beatles albums to Monty Python to The Seekers.

Completely baffled me that after decades of accumulating crap that that was one of the things he had no attachment to and saw no value in. These are records from the 60s, bought in the 60s and listened to in the 60s. Happy to report that the collection has started propagating.

 

[Cruyff14]

I have about 200 of my dad's records sitting in the cupboard.

 

[Plugger35]

I got no good records from my Dad, he was born back in the WW2 era but he may as well have been born back in the WW! era.

He likes the old fashioned jazz and I can't stand jazz, the only record I liked that he had was a George Benson record from 1980.

 

[Gough]

I got no good records from my Dad, he was born back in the WW2 era but he may as well have been born back in the WW! era.

He likes the old fashioned jazz and I can't stand jazz, the only record I liked that he had was a George Benson record from 1980.

I got a whole bunch of Dave Brubeck albums with Portuguese sleevenotes because they were Mozambique imports.