And then you keep playing it, the Mere Exposure Effect kicks in, and you start to enjoy the album. A prisoner of your own mind.
Good time
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PunnyName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Knasen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or did you actually, out of “nessecity” and being cheap, really LISTEN to it and realized that it probably was good and not give up on it and jump to the next thing after 20 seconds as you do today?
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No. It was Savage Garden’s self-titled album. There’s no way it’s actually good. The over-exposure broke my brain.
jg1i@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TIL about the mere exposure effect! I’ve noticed this internally for myself, but didn’t know there was a formal name for this.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Looking at you Duran Duran.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Yup lol
niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There should have been a band or album called The Stockholm Syndrome.
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Flip side it is early 1999 and you’re in the 6th grade and you just spent some of your Christmas money on The Offspring’s Americana, and you’ve no idea how there isn’t a parental advisory.
It’s the first album you’ve purchased with your own money and it exceeds all your expectations.
BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Napster launched in June 1999. It shut down in July 2001. It was a short run but I don’t think a lot of young people were spending $10 on an album.
Lovstuhagen@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
This isn’t wrong - I was there using Napster, and I was one of the lucky ones with a Mac so my computer was immune to most viruses.
What was the other one that was really good… its symbol was a satellite… Found it: Audiogalaxy.
And, for the longest time, it was also Limewire… lol…
But yeah, I still did buy CDs because I also felt like it was a lot more common to not be able to find stuff you wanted…
Or, the funniest thing ever: downloading “Sex Pistols” but it’s just a Billy Idol song. IDK why that would happen but it did.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Looking your direction, Fastball! The Way was a decent song, but the rest of the album was terrible!
daina@lemmy.world 7 months ago
C’mon now, “Fire Escape” was a decent tune!
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It wasn’t for me, but I don’t think anything else on the album was at all memorable.
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It also make the absolute best Pandora station seed for “fun music everyone wants to sing along to”.
Concave1142@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Or in my case you bought Toadies - Possum Kingdom and got pissed off that the entire album was only 37 minutes long and you payed $18 for it in the 90’s… Have not bought music sense. Viva la Streaming!
daina@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, albums were definitely not $10 in the 90s.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I feel like $16 would have been closer to the average price.
qevlarr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I bought one (1) CD in my entire life. It was The Prodigy’s Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. Put it in my computer… It didn’t work. No files. I was one of the victims to Sony’s shitty DRM crap. Returned the CD and never stopped pirating since.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Worse is an expensive concert and not realizing the artist’s latest album has a reggae twist (I don’t mind reggae!!).
Just wasn’t expecting all the songs including his big hits.
Damn you, Jason Mraz!
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 7 months ago
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ha, nice. I wish. It truly was disappointing.
sj_zero 7 months ago
I don't think it was 1999, but St. Anger....
Bastards whined about Napster, then put out that piece of crap.
I made like 5 bucks an hour to earn that money, so that was hours of my life I was never going to get back.
Alice@hilariouschaos.com 7 months ago
Dude !? Wtf me to!!! I called it ‘St. Angry’ lol that’s so crazy man.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
St. Anger. Metallica. Haven’t listened to anything new from them since then, cause that album burned me so bad. Literally killed my lifelong fandom of Metallica. Still love the old stuff
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 7 months ago
dreikelvin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I still listen to it because I can’t have just single tracks lying around on my hard drive, I NEED the full accompanying album!
Downcount@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s 1999 and you go to a record store to listen to the entire album BEFORE you buy it. Never occurred to me to do otherwise.
YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I forgot this used to be the way. These days I think I’d be a little grossed out by the public headphones but I loved sitting in the store and skimming through albums before purchasing them.