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1990-92, kids didn't have CD players yet but the "Hi-Fi generation" that grew up alongside the rock and pop music industry were deep enough into their careers t
by usrusr 6y ago
1990-92, kids didn't have CD players yet but the "Hi-Fi generation" that grew up alongside the rock and pop music industry were deep enough into their careers to have the disposable income for buying a CD player and an accompanying library of CD re-releases of the LPs they could not afford when they were young. Re-releases where huge in the transition period from LP to CD.
- saltcured 6y agoIn California suburbs, I remember when the somewhat upper-middle-class teenager next door showed off his CD player in the early 80s, before he graduated high school. It was the first and most primitive one I ever saw. Within a few years, my parents had added one to their hifi system, as did most other families I knew. Well before I graduated high school in '92, I had added a 10-disc changer to my bedroom hifi, using my own odd job cash from paper routes, lawn mowing, etc. It was some kind of scratch/dent item I got from the local home electronics store, and I think it cost me less than my first walkman from the mid-80s. I might have only owned two dozen CDs by then, still having a lot more music on tapes. I can't remember for certain whether the "record clubs" that kids got into for vinyl LPs also existed for CDs, but I suspect they did.