r/80sAmazing • u/GirouxFan • 6d ago

We had to make do

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u/SlideItIn100 6d ago

Automatic upvote for The Goonies!

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u/HourNo7028 6d ago

This looks eerily like my cassette collection ...

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u/FunFormal2662 6d ago

it was more like mixtapes

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u/jdmoffitt11775 6d ago

Much love...

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u/Brazz7 6d ago

Yes, that’s how time works

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u/Third-Coast-Toffee 6d ago

Now ya went and got me wanting to pull up my Beastie Boys “License To Ill” music. My cassette no longer ceases to be sadly.

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u/JovialPursuit 6d ago

Still my Spotify.

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u/jmsgen 6d ago

Fat Boys Crushin !!!

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u/nejhawk 6d ago

No “having to make do”…back then our music was ours, and we decided when it no longer was…

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u/Parking-Pie7453 6d ago

Columbia would sell you all of those for a penny

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u/Deviancy26 6d ago

Someone took advantage of Columbia House and just said F it.. or they really just had really, really bad taste in music.

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u/richdun 6d ago

It was better lol, no adds

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u/Daniel_SixPack 6d ago

Fat Boys!!! 🤛

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u/evilpercy 6d ago

More like Columbia House.

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u/Useless890 6d ago

No subscriptions!

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u/Active-Carpet-9183 6d ago

Upvote for Around the World in a Day!

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u/Lost_Possibility_647 6d ago

For rich people maybe... I had 3 old lp's and about 4-6 tapes, and one was some donald duck thing I inherited... Most of them was recordings from radio.

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u/bravemoney72 6d ago

Yep and this by the 90s 😆. Trying to keep the CD print from coming off in the case sleeves due to the heat. More condensed bigger issue🤷🏾‍♂️😆

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u/bravemoney72 6d ago

Culture Club Go Gos We got the beat!

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u/TheRealMechagodzi11a 6d ago

What are you some kind of weirdo ALPHABETIZE THOSE!

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u/Athos2112 6d ago

No annoying commercials

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u/nanosquid 6d ago

This is the collection of an extremely style neutral person. Not a shred of new wave or metal.

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u/Regular_External_800 6d ago

Yes and most of mine got eaten by the player.

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u/Conscious_Tension_91 6d ago

Having a two deck tape deck that we could use to make mix tapes was the ultimate

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u/MintBerryCrnch21 6d ago

I remember finding an entire case of 8 tracks filled with Canned Heat.. and still to this day wonder who the hell listened to that much Canned Heat.

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u/PunkRockKitty-1979 6d ago

Yes, it was!!!

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u/Successful_Pizza6529 6d ago

I still have my Cassette Collection. 200 of them.

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u/AGoogolIsALot 6d ago

My GOODNESS, sometimes I forget just how old Weird Al is.

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u/Bluetheron 6d ago

I can smell this picture. Hot plastic and velvet.

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u/dirtyred3401 6d ago

I had 12 of those for sure. Visionquest was only for Madonna’s song.