@Tharsman That's interesting. It's the complete opposite of my experience in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s. I could not even think of a single person that didn't own at least 20 CDs or tapes. Everyone wanted to own their own music. Trading CDs, finding new bands, or bootlegs etc was something that the vast majority of people did. Sure we recorded some songs off the radio. But singles weren't albums, and people cared about albums. My father had a CD and LP collection that was in the hundreds, probably closer to a thousand. Everyone freaked out by the size of it. But everyone and their parents had their own collection at home. It wasn't until the early 2000s until music became so easy to find and steal that people didn't "care" about owning their own music.
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@Tharsman
That's interesting. It's the complete opposite of my experience in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s.
I could not even think of a single person that didn't own at least 20 CDs or tapes. Everyone wanted to own their own music. Trading CDs, finding new bands, or bootlegs etc was something that the vast majority of people did.
Sure we recorded some songs off the radio. But singles weren't albums, and people cared about albums.
My father had a CD and LP collection that was in the hundreds, probably closer to a thousand.
Everyone freaked out by the size of it. But everyone and their parents had their own collection at home.
It wasn't until the early 2000s until music became so easy to find and steal that people didn't "care" about owning their own music.