I was recently thumbing through the pages of an old SPIN magazine and came across an oldie but goodie- a ad for Columbia House (CH). Remember those services like CH and BMG where you got 12 CDs for a penny and agreed to buy six more CDs over the course of two years at regular club price?
I surely remember those days and there always seemed to be a brown paper box (that was impossible to open) awaiting me when I returned home from school. I used to get so excited because half the time I forgot what I had ordered and it was like Christmas several times a month. I would go back to my room and play the latest works from No Doubt, Savage Garden and Janet Jackson, only coming out of my room for the mandatory supper break.
Those were the pre-iTune days, where you bought the whole album based on the chart topping single. Sometimes you got a really solid piece of work like Sarah McLachlan's Surfacing and other times you got a so-so album, say for example Tonic's Lemon Parade.
Regardless, I just remember the whole process as being fun. You scanned the rows and rows of album options, debated which ones to buy to fulfill your obligation and then cancelling your membership only to renew a couple months later when there were 12 new CDs you wanted.
Good times, good times!
1 comments:
I used to spend HOURS looking at all those little album cover pictures and circling the ones I wanted to buy. Those were the days!!! Great post!
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