Personally I thought the synth sounds were a bit cheesy on that record, thrift shop sounds more like a genre parody. I think the album would have sounded better

Personally I thought the synth sounds were a bit cheesy on that record, thrift shop sounds more like a genre parody. I think the album would have sounded better if the two were not prevented from even basic sampling. In a lot of cases not using samples often just means taking a sample which you have already roughly arranged into a song and spending a lot of time and money recreating it with live musicians.