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It was like that though.
It's 1999. Why are you paying for music at all? Napster still exists for you.
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If you got 3 tracks off a hip hop album you’d nailed it.
Yes, there are exceptions, we now call them classics
Back in those days you could listen to the record/cassette/cd in the store before you bought it. They would have these headphones you could use.
So it's not as big of a problem as this meme would make it seem.
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I bought Finger11 for paralyzed and then realized it was by far their best track.
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But you owned it. So you could sell the CD and recoup almost all of your money.
Except you couldn't? You would get $1-2 bucks for most used tapes/LPs/Cds.
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The person who made this meme is too young to know about reselling stuff they own.
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When people who didn't like rock/metal bought an Extreme album because they thought all the songs were like More Than Words.
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