I Miss Video Stores

[*jason*]

(10-07-2016, 12:46 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Oh yeah.  Big time.  I think music stores and video stores share something in common (especially pre-internet days) in that almost felt a sense of accomplishment by finding something new or just winging it and grabbing something you didn't know anything about.  There was immense satisfaction in taking a chance on some record you knew little about it, being the first person you know to own it, and ending up loving it.

I'm always reminded of this when I think about going to the music store back in the day.  Anyone remember when Al Bundy gets that song stuck in his head and he keeps going around humming it, trying to figure out what it was?  That is something all of us 30 and up can relate to.  Nowadays you can just hop online and either look at the radio station's playlist for that hour, and boom there's your song, or you can just type in the most random, usually wrong in some way, lyrics and you can find it pretty quick. (Ex: You can probably just type in "cute little heartbreaker lyric" into google now and Foxy Lady will come up in the first few results)

But way back when?  You were going around humming that shit trying to see if anyone had heard it.  Or that feeling when you could never figure it out, you kinda forget about it, and then you hear it again on the radio, this time enough it to hear the artist.  That was the best.  Then you run up to the store, buy that album, and you got an entire album worth of stuff to listen to that you know nothing about going into.

I remember watching that episode as a kid. I was telling my dad about it, and imitating the way he was humming the song. My dad cut me off, and said "Anna... By the Beatles". I was impressed.