Red Mosquito

PHATJ wrote:I started both my cassette collection and later my CD collection through Colombia House and BMG subscriptions. The first three CDs I ever purchased were Vitalogy, STP - Purple, and Nirvana - Unplugged in 1994. I was 14 years old. It took me a few years to re-purchase all my cassettes on CD, but eventually I did. Then in the late '90s I got sucked into the MiniDisc "fad" for a while. I still have a copy of Vs. on MiniDisc to this day! HAHA!

turned2black wrote:

PHATJ wrote:I started both my cassette collection and later my CD collection through Colombia House and BMG subscriptions. The first three CDs I ever purchased were Vitalogy, STP - Purple, and Nirvana - Unplugged in 1994. I was 14 years old. It took me a few years to re-purchase all my cassettes on CD, but eventually I did. Then in the late '90s I got sucked into the MiniDisc "fad" for a while. I still have a copy of Vs. on MiniDisc to this day! HAHA!

I still have about 50 MiniDiscs buried in my garage. I had a friend that did promotional work for Sony and she gave them to me all the time. I also had a killer MiniDisc Walkman.

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

doone wrote:I'm surprised no one has said this yet but my gateway song to not only Pearl Jam, but Soundgarden, was Hunger Strike. As soon as I identified the players, I bought the all 3 cassettes through Columbia House Record Club.

I believe I just dated myself.

I used Columbia house and bmg for a ton of my cds back in the day

darth_vedder wrote:

turned2black wrote:

PHATJ wrote:I started both my cassette collection and later my CD collection through Colombia House and BMG subscriptions. The first three CDs I ever purchased were Vitalogy, STP - Purple, and Nirvana - Unplugged in 1994. I was 14 years old. It took me a few years to re-purchase all my cassettes on CD, but eventually I did. Then in the late '90s I got sucked into the MiniDisc "fad" for a while. I still have a copy of Vs. on MiniDisc to this day! HAHA!

I still have about 50 MiniDiscs buried in my garage. I had a friend that did promotional work for Sony and she gave them to me all the time. I also had a killer MiniDisc Walkman.

I liked the mini disc. I used to work at Circuit City back in the day, and I was a big fan. I liked how they were, well, mini. Much easier to tote around and didn't scratch as easy. I hoped they were gonna catch on, but it was like the Beta Max. It just wasn't meant to be I guess.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

darth_vedder wrote:

turned2black wrote:

PHATJ wrote:I started both my cassette collection and later my CD collection through Colombia House and BMG subscriptions. The first three CDs I ever purchased were Vitalogy, STP - Purple, and Nirvana - Unplugged in 1994. I was 14 years old. It took me a few years to re-purchase all my cassettes on CD, but eventually I did. Then in the late '90s I got sucked into the MiniDisc "fad" for a while. I still have a copy of Vs. on MiniDisc to this day! HAHA!

I still have about 50 MiniDiscs buried in my garage. I had a friend that did promotional work for Sony and she gave them to me all the time. I also had a killer MiniDisc Walkman.

I liked the mini disc. I used to work at Circuit City back in the day, and I was a big fan. I liked how they were, well, mini. Much easier to tote around and didn't scratch as easy. I hoped they were gonna catch on, but it was like the Beta Max. It just wasn't meant to be I guess.

They weren't like beta max at all. Beta was higher quality than its competition and mini disc was lower.