Hoo boy did this bring back memories.
It was early 90s, I was a band camp veteran, and all I was listening to was classical music or jazz. Then, a light shone on me.
Man, was I immediately turned around. Why? Because dad did a music purchase binge and picked this up, thanks to Columbia House. It was an immediate hit for me and opened me up to a world that had been closed as soon as I became a “band geek”.
In years gone by, we’d do the 10 albums for a dollar deal, but you’d end up getting a few you wanted and having to pick from a random couple of others. Some other notable CDs we got that I wouldn’t have purchased otherwise:
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How about you…did you pick up any hidden gems in your Columbia House pickups? What was your favorite?
Every single U2 album/cassette that was cut in the 80’s is the main one that comes to mind. I guess that was around 1990, helped open my young teenage mind that there was more than pop rock out there, and boy did the music scene shift hard again right about that time.