D Cells please!

There was a time when I would buy cassette tapes for 9.99 at Camelot music. I would just pick something that had a cool looking cover. This was my death metal phase. I bought a lot of bad music that way. I still have some of that stored deep in the parents house.

I can remember the first time I was able to go into a music store and actually listen to certain, not any, just certain cds. Often you couldn't fast forward though which was really frustrating.

My music tastes were always weird, so it was a huge treat to go to Tower Records in New Orleans or Atlanta. Sometimes my friends and I would make a road trip just for Tower Records. We'd spend from 1 to 2 hours in there looking at cds. Then the trip back would be listening to cds the whole way.

One time, the car we were driving only had a tape player. So we brought a huge boom box and a tape player adapter. This would plug into the boom box's audio out port, and the adapter would go into the car's tape player. We used it driving up though and after only 20 minutes of our 5 hour drive back the boom box died. We barely had any money left, so we stopped at some rinky dink gas station in the middle of nowhere and paid what seemed like a ridiculous amount of money for 8 D cell batteries. There may have been a large bag of change in that transaction. All was saved though and the trip home was full of sonic wonderment!

These trips to Tower records though were often full of pressure to buy extra. Finding a new band with a cool sound was a super find! However, you just had to pay for it and hope for the best! There was no pre listen yet.

I've been carrying around 2 huge boxes of cds with me now for a few years. I am finally trimming them down. These 6 cds are the worst cds I've ever purchased. They still sound absolutely wretched! I can't believe I bought an album with the word 'Poodle' in it! Maybe I should keep them. Maybe not.