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episode date - August 27, 2008
I know I have precious little to say that’s nice about popular music in the ‘90s, but things really weren’t so bad then. Back in 1998, if you liked an artist or a song, you could buy a CD in a store, a store that sold CDs, a store that sometimes exclusively sold cd’s. Imagine that! Now that Tower Records and Virgin Megastores have virtually ceased to exist, while the mom and pop record shops that made buying so much fun have nearly evaporated, how quaint and old fashioned the idea of ‘buying’ a hard copy of music has already become.
Maybe some people considered it impractical to flip through endless aisles of disks looking for something to buy. I loved it. I probably spent an unhealthy percentage of my life doing exactly that. It was fun to me, and God only knows how many new artists I’ve discovered by browsing through the racks. Maybe every generation that is younger than me thinks I’m crazy to bemoan the need to burn gas, drive to a shopping center, deal with a store clerk, and maybe find out that I’ve wasted my time because the disk I wanted isn’t in stock. I guess they’d also be right to point out that it isn’t environmentally sound to manufacture and distribute all of that plastic, when a digital file works just as well.
I suppose that’s all true, but music doesn’t feel the same anymore, now that it floats freely (or otherwise) over the Internet. I’m sure record labels like it even less than I do, and perhaps so do most recording artists, but we can’t turn back the clock now. It is what it is. All music from this show hearkens back to a time when I was still flipping alphabetically through the ‘rock/pop/R&B’ sections of record stores, knowing that the days for doing so were numbered. Ten years ago, in the Summer of 1998, I already knew that cd’s would be soon be rendered obsolete, but I bought them anyway. Here are a few songs from those cd’s;
1) Intergalactic – The Beastie Boys
2) Ray of Light – Madonna
3) Baby Britain – Elliott Smith
4) Can’t Let Go – Lucinda Williams
5) If You Ever Have Forever in Mind – Vince Gill
6) Cowboy – Kid Rock
7) Doo Wop (That Thing) – Lauryn Hill
8) Pictures in an Exhibition – Death Cab for Cutie
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