Comments on: Where Did Y’All Get the Money to Buy All Those Records When You Were Teenagers? https://iwilldare.com/2017/01/where-did-yall-get-the-money-to-buy-all-those-records-when-you-were-teenagers/ A little bit of heaven & A whole lot of hell Mon, 16 Jan 2017 02:27:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: David Gutowski https://iwilldare.com/2017/01/where-did-yall-get-the-money-to-buy-all-those-records-when-you-were-teenagers/#comment-71251 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 02:27:54 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=15014#comment-71251 I bought my first albums as a pre-teen with altar boy money (from serving at funerals and weddings). After that I was as guilty of abusing record & tape clubs, but also used whatever I didn’t put away for school on music.

]]> By: Susanna Donato https://iwilldare.com/2017/01/where-did-yall-get-the-money-to-buy-all-those-records-when-you-were-teenagers/#comment-71241 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:37:33 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=15014#comment-71241 Ditto Wolfdogg’s strategies. I got my first new wave from Columbia Records & Tapes when I was 13. It was sad when I’d burned through all their “cool” options and couldn’t bilk them anymore.

And then all through my teen years I babysat a lot and I basically didn’t buy anything except music and some clothes at thrift stores. I remember once making an exception and buying a sweater on sale at the Gap for $12 in 1989 — it was a pale-ish olive green V-neck with a great texture — and being SO SCANDALIZED that people paid that exorbitant amount for clothes all the time.

Not that you saw my list, but yeah, a lot of my taste hasn’t changed that much since then — after all, 13-19 are pretty damn formative years in musical taste. I want to do a 20s list too, because my taste did expand then …

]]> By: Jodi https://iwilldare.com/2017/01/where-did-yall-get-the-money-to-buy-all-those-records-when-you-were-teenagers/#comment-71237 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:06:50 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=15014#comment-71237 In reply to Wolfdogg.

I did build my tape collection on bilking Columbia House & BMG. But I didn’t do it until my very late teens and everything I got was mostly garbage that had 0 influence on me. (except for Suzanne Vega and Simon & Garfunkel, they were Columbia House scores).

]]> By: Wolfdogg https://iwilldare.com/2017/01/where-did-yall-get-the-money-to-buy-all-those-records-when-you-were-teenagers/#comment-71236 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 17:04:57 +0000 https://iwilldare.com/?p=15014#comment-71236 The vast majority of my teenage album collection was from joining and rejoinng record and tape clubs. Or cassette dubs of friend’s albums they got from the same source.

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