remember that shit?

what a monumental waste of money. dem bitchez was like $15. just found a box of CDs from the late 90s and early 00s

DJ Clue - The Professional....strictly for Ruff Ryders Anthem (Remix)
Bulworth soundtrack....just for Ghetto Supastar
Sporty Thievz....for No Pigeons

i'd like that $45 back, please

5/24/2010 9:27:57 PM

back in the day I would go to the used CD store if I was buying a CD for just one song.

5/24/2010 9:30:48 PM

I know i've done this, I can't think of any examples though. I've bought several CDs after hearing one song and hoping for the best, rarely if ever worked out.

5/24/2010 9:32:11 PM

I would buy Taylor Swift songs one by one.

5/24/2010 9:33:15 PM

you can get two cds for free

5/24/2010 9:34:11 PM

yeah, i remember buying Godsmack's self-titled joint just for the song Whatever, but i was pleased with that purchase because the entire album was excellent which was totally unexpected. they can keep my $15.

[Edited on May 24, 2010 at 9:36 PM. Reason : k]

5/24/2010 9:35:45 PM

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"back in the day when we bought CDs"

I last bought music in 1999. Someone got me a Matchbox 20 album as a gift around 2004 and I remember thinking "why did you waste your money?". I'd like to say I made up for it by going to live shows, but I hate live shows. The sound quality is almost always horrible. So my point is if you buy music you're a sucker, so if you buy an entire album for a single you're still a sucker.

5/24/2010 9:37:45 PM

Thats when those NOW! music CDs made bank.

5/24/2010 9:38:16 PM

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"I hate live shows"

5/24/2010 9:43:45 PM

i bought the Nada Surf cd just for "Popular"

5/24/2010 9:44:41 PM

what about people that bought the singles that were like $3 cheaper but only had 1 song on it. you know...for the people that couldn't wait a few months for the new album

5/24/2010 9:45:37 PM

yep, i did that shit too

5/24/2010 9:46:49 PM

^^^^ He's just a crotchety old man that wants the kids to stay off his lawn.

5/24/2010 10:11:11 PM

bought a vanilla ice TAPE for ice ice baby

5/24/2010 10:15:36 PM

....last weekend

5/24/2010 10:17:30 PM

I just wanna fly................

Sugar Ray baby

5/24/2010 10:18:13 PM

Nope i don't remember that.

First cd i bought was Nofx - 45 or 46, and its still one of my favorite albums

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

5/24/2010 10:20:27 PM

cat's out of the bag -- I bought LFO for "Summer Girls"

~

5/24/2010 10:20:31 PM

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"I last bought music in 1999. Someone got me a Matchbox 20 album as a gift around 2004 and I remember thinking "why did you waste your money?". I'd like to say I made up for it by going to live shows, but I hate live shows. The sound quality is almost always horrible. So my point is if you buy music you're a sucker, so if you buy an entire album for a single you're still a sucker."

i'd bet good money this guy likes shitty music. and has only gone to live shows of those shitty bands. also i hope he gets robbed.

5/24/2010 10:22:55 PM

I haven't bought a CD since probably 2003... I only listen to NPR now. Music is for college kids.

[Edited on May 24, 2010 at 10:24 PM. Reason : and I listened to good fucking music]

5/24/2010 10:24:06 PM

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"Bulworth soundtrack....just for Ghetto Supastar"

*raises hand*

5/24/2010 10:24:57 PM

^^if you listened to good music, then why don't you anymore?
^i didn't buy that. but i almost did. i really liked pras around that time.

[Edited on May 24, 2010 at 10:26 PM. Reason : .]

5/24/2010 10:26:25 PM

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"Music is for college kids."

I never thought you were a great troll, but I thought you were a bit better than this.

5/24/2010 11:33:39 PM

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"So my point is if you buy music you're a sucker, so if you buy an entire album for a single you're still a sucker."

Who do you work for, so I can tell them that you are a big proponent of working for free.

5/24/2010 11:47:26 PM

i bought mellon collie and the infinite sadness by the smashing pumpkins just for "bullet with butterfly wings" when i was in like 4th grade. unfortunately i didn't realize how great of a purchase it was until about 10 years later.

[Edited on May 24, 2010 at 11:48 PM. Reason : .]

5/24/2010 11:47:58 PM

i was just thinking about this the other day, why the hell would i buy music before listening to the entire album to make sure i like it? i'm glad i can download everything illegally, then go back and pay for it if i feel like supporting the record label.

BG - Chopper City in the Ghetto (Bling Bling)
Eve 6 - Eve 6 (Inside Out) - I listened about twice (really never gave it a chance) then took it outside and hit it with a baseball bat

5/24/2010 11:53:55 PM

back then I was recording off the radio onto cassette

5/24/2010 11:56:39 PM

I got my tapes from some dude in the trailer park a mile from my neighborhood.
They weren't "professional" bootlegs like you'd find in NYC, but rather just some recordable tapes from Wal-Mart. He had a nice dolby dual deck system and he did allow you to get the nice Cr02 tapes for only a dollar more.

5/25/2010 12:05:31 AM

there was a really good cd store in greensboro called bb's (they're closed now) where you could listen to their entire stock at listening stations and they had lists of new arrivals of used stuff that you could browse at the stations. it made for informed purchases in a time pre-cable-internet. i spent a lot of time in that place in high school.

5/25/2010 12:52:23 AM

I think I had a Stabbing Westward CD in middle school for like one song

or how about that Orgy CD. you only bought it for Blue Monday and Stitches

5/25/2010 1:15:12 AM

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"i bought mellon collie and the infinite sadness by the smashing pumpkins just for "bullet with butterfly wings" when i was in like 4th grade. unfortunately i didn't realize how great of a purchase it was until about 10 years later."

i think this makes for a way more interesting thread

i could say this about blind melon and radiohead (pablo honey)

both i got for one song but didnt realize how completely awesome the rest of the album was until years later

[Edited on May 25, 2010 at 1:18 AM. Reason : .]

5/25/2010 1:18:29 AM

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"back then I was recording off the radio onto cassette"

haha, I did that once...

5/25/2010 1:21:10 AM

pablo honey is not awesome

5/25/2010 1:46:32 AM

say what you will but the bends and pablo honey are my two favorite radiohead albums

nott taking anything away from ok computer or kid a

but my list would go

bends
pablo
kid a
ok computer

but now that i think about it, i didnt appreciate either kid a or ok computer fully until years later either

bends has been the only radiohead album i fell in love with upon first listen

[Edited on May 25, 2010 at 1:53 AM. Reason : .]

5/25/2010 1:48:30 AM

matrix soundtrack for rob d's 'clubbed to death'

beavis and butthead experience for nirvana's 'i hate myself and want to die'

kriss kross for 'jump, jump!'

vanilla ice for 'ice, ice baby'

snow for 'informer'

shaggy for 'mr. boombastic'

cranberries for 'zombie'

green day's insomnia for 'brain stew/jaded'

...and out come the wolves for that one song

(hed) p.e. for blackout

metallica's black album for 'the god that failed'

slayer's decade of aggression double disc for the live version of 'dead skin mask'

siamese dream for 'soma'

verve pipe 'bittersweet symphony'

oasis 'wonderwall'

bush's razorblade suitcase for 'greedy fly'

HATBF - cracked rear view for 'time'

nirvana's nevermind for 'endless, nameless'

5/25/2010 1:52:18 AM

i stiil buy CDs on the regular.
i prefer the audio quality to mp3's.



last thing i bought was Cosmogramma
well worth the money.

5/25/2010 1:52:19 AM

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"...the nice Cr02 tapes "

I remember those!

5/25/2010 1:57:53 AM

the only full-length record i ever bought for one song was the TMNT II soundtrack because of "ninja rap"

and it was on cassette

because goddamn

5/25/2010 2:22:39 AM

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"but I hate live shows."

what kind of shitty ass music are you listening to?

5/25/2010 7:53:30 AM

i came in here just to make a "back in the day, when i was young i'm not a kid anymore" reference.



...although now that i think about it, i think i bought that ahmad cd just for that song....so that's fitting, right?

5/25/2010 9:24:36 AM

5/25/2010 9:29:58 AM

oh yeah..."Back in the Day"

i bought The Wood Soundtrack for that song

it also contained some Biz Markie and that "I Wanna Know" song by Joe

5/25/2010 10:08:47 AM

Record labels thought they could get away with selling millions of albums with one good song on it for ever.

But rather than own up to selling an inferior product for decades, they'd rather view their customer base as thieves.

Yet, the fact that the release of Exile on Mainstreet being #1 in the UK like 40 years after it was first released is proof that people are willing to pay for music if it's any good.

5/25/2010 10:15:48 AM

Nelly's Country Grammar or one of Weird Al's CDs was the most listened to in my childhood.

5/25/2010 10:19:14 AM

I can honestly say I don't think I have ever bought an album for 1 song. The closest scenario I can think of is The Anniversary's album "Your Majesty." I enjoyed "Designing a Nervous Breakdown" and bought the next album accordingly. Well, it turned out that "Sweet Marie" is about the only song I really liked on that entire record, but darn if it isn't a good, catchy song.

But that is not really the intent of the thread I know. That was more an accidental "I only like one song on the album" as opposed to buying an album for one song.

5/25/2010 10:25:37 AM

I used to join and quit Columbia House like 10 times a year. I think I've gotten over 200 cds from them for under $1.

5/25/2010 10:28:56 AM

Verve Pipe... there's a 90s ass one-hit-wonder

I remember one of my friends in middles school got the Shawn Mullins CD for Christmas (Rock-a-bye or whatever that song was)

5/25/2010 10:43:59 AM

Pretty sure the first CD I bought was Helmet's "Meantime" for the song "Unsung". It turned out to be a pretty good disc though.

5/25/2010 10:47:19 AM

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"I haven't bought a CD since probably 2003... I only listen to NPR now. Music is for college kids. [Edited on May 24, 2010 at 10:24 PM. Reason : and I listened to good fucking music]"

*fartz* ~~

5/25/2010 10:48:35 AM

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"Pretty sure the first CD I bought was Helmet's "Meantime" for the song "Unsung". It turned out to be a pretty good disc though."

Meantime and Betty have been in my regular rotation for the last 15 years or so. I still love the fuck out of some Helmet.

5/25/2010 10:49:53 AM