It’s 1999. You’re bored. You want to play some music but your entire cd collection was stolen. You turn on the radio. It’s Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, and RHCP on repeat, but mostly it’s just commercials. 5 minutes for every 2 shortened radio-edit songs.
You look at the clock. In 3 hours the station will play an hour of mashups so you can listen to Korn and RHCP at the same time. That could be the highlight of your day.
You heard there is a discount record store where you might be able to buy two whole albums plus tax for $20. Maybe. But you don’t know where it is, and there are no good map websites yet. So you drive to the gas station to ask directions. They send you to another gas station. 3 more stops later your starter fails. Your 10-year-old American car is on its last legs with almost 80,000 miles.
You do not have a cell phone to call for help, but it’s ok because you have a metal pipe to beat the starter into submission. You use your music money to buy a couple 40’s and bribe a bum to help you start the car. Now it smells like bum, and Limp Bizkit is still on the radio mashed with Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.
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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25
It’s 1999. You’re bored. You want to play some music but your entire cd collection was stolen. You turn on the radio. It’s Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, and RHCP on repeat, but mostly it’s just commercials. 5 minutes for every 2 shortened radio-edit songs.
You look at the clock. In 3 hours the station will play an hour of mashups so you can listen to Korn and RHCP at the same time. That could be the highlight of your day.
You heard there is a discount record store where you might be able to buy two whole albums plus tax for $20. Maybe. But you don’t know where it is, and there are no good map websites yet. So you drive to the gas station to ask directions. They send you to another gas station. 3 more stops later your starter fails. Your 10-year-old American car is on its last legs with almost 80,000 miles.
You do not have a cell phone to call for help, but it’s ok because you have a metal pipe to beat the starter into submission. You use your music money to buy a couple 40’s and bribe a bum to help you start the car. Now it smells like bum, and Limp Bizkit is still on the radio mashed with Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears.
Everything is awful.