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Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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Kmart Week Of 02.02.1992. I'm surprised at how much I like it, and how much I hated this back then. ha im old now.

One nice thing about getting older is not worrying about whether the music you like is cool or not.

But do you feel comfortable listening to Britney Spears and Katy Perry in public?

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I was just thinking about this a few days ago and even made a note to go look them up on archive.org. I think someone shared this a few years ago and it got picked up by buzzfeed (or whatever). When I worked retail we had this but it was a mini-cd system that looked like a GameCube. My boss was a little bit forced into investing in it because a customer was furious that a P!nk song on the radio had the word "ass" or…

Not every radio plays Clean version/radio edit of pop songs?

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Why the lol for Alpert? (I have all of Alpert's records!)

I love Herb Alpert, but the 'Whipped Cream and other delight' vinyl in thrift stores is a running jokes among specific vinyl collector. I do love Herb Alpert self composed songs too like you smile, the song begins and fox hunt. Read this article, and the comments for even more fun (the person who made the album cover even commented there!) https://dangerousminds.net/comments/every_crate_diggers_nigh...

From the cite: "everybody’s parents had the fucking thing"

I guess I'm slightly different. My dad had "Herb Alpert's 9th" and I loved that album. Of course, his copy was ruined by the time I inherited it, and I trolled store after store for years looking for it. Finally, I found a mint copy still in the shrink wrap in the back for a couple bucks.

I had my prize!

Of course, collecting these things isn't fun anymore because anything you want is just a click away.

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One nice thing about getting older is not worrying about whether the music you like is cool or not.

But do you feel comfortable listening to Britney Spears and Katy Perry in public?

Brittany who?

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I love Herb Alpert, but the 'Whipped Cream and other delight' vinyl in thrift stores is a running jokes among specific vinyl collector. I do love Herb Alpert self composed songs too like you smile, the song begins and fox hunt. Read this article, and the comments for even more fun (the person who made the album cover even commented there!) https://dangerousminds.net/comments/every_crate_diggers_nigh...

From the cite: "everybody’s parents had the fucking thing" I guess I'm slightly different. My dad had "Herb Alpert's 9th" and I loved that album. Of course, his copy was ruined by the time I inherited it, and I trolled store after store for years looking for it. Finally, I found a mint copy still in the shrink wrap in the back for a couple bucks. I had my prize! Of course, collecting these things isn't fun anymore be…

I discovered Herb Alpert through YouTube recommendation this year when I was curating my Easy Listening Mix playlist [0], and damn it, Herb Alpert has all these slick songs! I used to listen to vaporwave in the past, I wonder why Herb Alpert isn't vaporwave material already.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIc1-wxSJgpNoJkkukIFn...

Re: Attention K-Mart Shoppers: Piped Music Collection on the Internet Archive

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In case anyone is looking, here is a Christmas tape to get you in the mood. It even includes the ads! https://archive.org/details/KmartDecember1992

What I find kinda strange in American Culture (as an American) is that the rest of the pop music tapes are pretty much just period music that no modern kid would recognize.

The Christmas tape is a 100% known landscape. We let hits die but Christmas music is eternal.

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There is a fun niche on YouTube that’s similar to this. It’s called mallsoft or mallwave and is a subgenre of the vaporwave genre. https://youtu.be/JELt1jxJsHQ https://youtu.be/FZUfiW3W1KY

You can also find good Mallsoft playlists on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4im2nSUjjCdReLLDNwDQoC

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FINALLY! I've been wanting to remix these kind of songs into hiphop songs for a long time. This is such a weird victory for music producers. These are a gold mine for hip hop sampling.

This is my exact intention as well. I've got the tracks open in my editor and just let it play until something catches my attention.
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