Monday, July 18, 2005
for your bewilderment
I was in an FYE store this weekend, and I don't know what confused me more, the fact that the sticker price for new cds is $19.99, or that they still release some new albums on cassette. They had the latest Luda on tape for ten bucks, alongside recent releases by the Game, 50 Cent, and Eminem. Is it only rap that still comes out on cassette? I didn't see the new Foo Fighters there, to give one example of a recent high-profile rock album.
Oh, wait, even more confusing, of the thirty or so cassettes in their fifty cent tape cut-out bin, roughly a third were Shimmy Disc albums from the late '80's. I so would have bought the John S. Hall / Kramer tape if I didn't already have the cd.
I was in an FYE store this weekend, and I don't know what confused me more, the fact that the sticker price for new cds is $19.99, or that they still release some new albums on cassette. They had the latest Luda on tape for ten bucks, alongside recent releases by the Game, 50 Cent, and Eminem. Is it only rap that still comes out on cassette? I didn't see the new Foo Fighters there, to give one example of a recent high-profile rock album.
Oh, wait, even more confusing, of the thirty or so cassettes in their fifty cent tape cut-out bin, roughly a third were Shimmy Disc albums from the late '80's. I so would have bought the John S. Hall / Kramer tape if I didn't already have the cd.
