Red Mosquito

Kevin Davis wrote:Oh man, yes — I still have some of my BMG/Columbia House discs! What a time it was waiting for major mail deliveries in those days pre-USPS tracking. I would send those order forms off and have no idea whether the discs would come in a week or eight months, and would live each day in hope, like that kid in the Christmas Story waiting for his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring, enduring one letdown after another until they finally arrived. I have a weirdly distinct memory of one such package containing a copy of “Ill Communication” arriving on a snow day from school, and playing it while bundled up outdoors with my neighborhood best friend, shooting at random stuff from his basement with a BB gun (which felt like an appropriately obnoxious way to break in a Beastie Boys CD).

No idea how I got all those orders past my parents. They surely would have vetoed any arrangement that had me committing to the purchase of half a dozen CD’s at $21 apiece, just so I could get a box of free ones in the mail.

oasisfan35 wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:Oh man, yes — I still have some of my BMG/Columbia House discs! What a time it was waiting for major mail deliveries in those days pre-USPS tracking. I would send those order forms off and have no idea whether the discs would come in a week or eight months, and would live each day in hope, like that kid in the Christmas Story waiting for his Little Orphan Annie decoder ring, enduring one letdown after another until they finally arrived. I have a weirdly distinct memory of one such package containing a copy of “Ill Communication” arriving on a snow day from school, and playing it while bundled up outdoors with my neighborhood best friend, shooting at random stuff from his basement with a BB gun (which felt like an appropriately obnoxious way to break in a Beastie Boys CD).

No idea how I got all those orders past my parents. They surely would have vetoed any arrangement that had me committing to the purchase of half a dozen CD’s at $21 apiece, just so I could get a box of free ones in the mail.

100% coming in to this thread to mention this. As my copy of Under the Table and Dreaming notes 'Manufactured in USA for BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. Under License' on the disc and similar ugly labeling on the back. My mother sanctioned the selections, that was the only one I singularly chose and got in the end.

I was still pretty set in cassette world in '93 but it all pretty much changed after that.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:lol Aiwa. I had a pretty sick tabletop stereo system in my room that was an Aiwa.

bodysnatcher wrote:Imagine walking into the gym and having to exercise to Ryan Adams

dad wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Imagine walking into the gym and having to exercise to Ryan Adams

dudes doing deadlifts to Come Pick Me Up.

oasisfan35 wrote:

dad wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Imagine walking into the gym and having to exercise to Ryan Adams

dudes doing deadlifts to Come Pick Me Up.

No PRs were set that day.

bodysnatcher wrote:Imagine walking into the gym and having to exercise to Ryan Adams

zeb wrote:My first CD was Living Colour's Biscuits EP. Oh boy did I love that band.

Higgs wrote:

zeb wrote:My first CD was Living Colour's Biscuits EP. Oh boy did I love that band.

I remember a mate loaned this to me on CD years and years ago, not long after it was released. I taped Talking Loud and Saying Nothing onto a mix tape which I managed to then lose not much later. For like 5 years I went searching for that song again and could never find it until streaming rolled around and got big.

Great tune.