When you've purchased cds; what has been the oddest or most different styles of music that you've brought up to the cashier?
(i.e. buying something like the Best Of Hendrix and Chipmunks Greatest hits...or The Rolling Stones and Ancient Pygmy Love Sounds just examples!!!) Knowing damn well they were both for you, the cashier gives you a look like wtf? Did you make up an excuse or try to explain the odd combination of 'musical' tastes? Or were you fortunate enough to have a child with you to blame it on?
And DON'T LIE...you know you've been there.

I masked my Justin Timberlake purchase by also buying NERD and another Neptunes-produced act: The Clipse. I've been listening to the Clipse alot actually and I'm glad I bought it but originally I bought it as a diversion. Isn't that sick that I did that for the cashier?

Natisse said:

btw, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY Justin!

Chico1 said:

CinisterCee said:

ok going off of your thread's original examples.. lets say you bought Kanye West College Dropout and the Chipmunks Greatest Hits..

CinisterCee said:

I can honestly and proudly say I have the Chipmunks greatest hits. Kanye West or Justi Definitely cause for embarrassment.

I was super embarrassed at the time to buy Timberlake but now I'm all over it and won't be masking my next purchase.

This is a funny topic I do like interacting with the cashiers.. even though I've been a cashier myself before and I know after a while I sure didn't care about people's choices at all.

Chico1 said:

Lucky what I wrote just got erased about dissin Kanye, anyway I'd have 2 say me buyin "NO Strings Attatched" by N*Sync because I loved their re-make of "Just Got Paid" which in buyin the album I found out was samely produced by Teddy Riley respectively.
I bought it from this punk guy at Cheapo and he just looked at me like Im sum young fool. I didnt have internet or a home computer back in the 'buy your songs you want' days. Seem like buying CD Singles were "back in the day" now. Even tho that song was not a single

I remember buying these 5 CDs simultaneously...


Thrust - Herbie Hancock



Classic - Steve Winwood



Super Hits - Mountain



The Ultimate Collection - The Temptations



Super Hits - Toto

Now that I look at them it doesn't seem strange at all.

I guess for someone with very narrow musical tastes it might.
If I had gotten the WTF look, i'd simply have returned it and been prepared to debate the salesperson into an ash heap.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

I am not afraid to buy my porn magazines. I worked in a bookstore and most customers that buy straight porn cover it up with something like the Cosmo.

They give the mags to you and you dcan the Cosmo, only to find the TEENAGE BUTT staring you in the face.

Gay porn customers are more proud of their tastes. My fave colleague and I often had conversations with gay customers that would go sumthing like;

Us; "Ooh, that is a nice cover!"

Customer; "And I haven't even seen the inside yet, I am keeping that for being alone."

The same with music. I am utterly unashamed to by an Abba album together with anything by Franz Ferdinand or The Arcade Fire.

theAudience said:

It doesn't seem strange.

Ok, maybe the Toto one does.
[Edited 2/2/05 7:27am]

theAudience said:

u got that for "Mississippi Queen" didntcha

i was a little tipsy that night...

I remember buying these at the same time



, which doesn't bother me, but I remember getting some raised eyebrows at the register, ....

I once purchased Leonard Cohen, Tori Amos and The Backstreet Boys at a Tower records. Yeah, I felt a little self-concious about it, but the sad, unwashed emo cliche's that work at my local tower would roll their eyes at most things any1 bought. So who cares?

So far, Anxiety wins.

CinisterCee said:

Sick, yes, but still adorable.

minneapolisgenius said:

I had to learn Georgy Porgy for a gig.
That and 99 are very cool pop tunes btw.

(the rest of it is pretty weak though)

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

TheRealFiness said:

That tune and...

Never In My Life
Theme From An Imaginary Western (originally written for Cream)
For Yasgur's Farm
Nantucket Sleighride

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

When I was a little kid, around 8, that's when I really got into a lot of different types of music. Every Friday evening, my mom and I would get an album each. If she didn't see anything that she wanted, then I would get two. Anyway, my mom and myself would always bring two different genres of music up to the counter. My mom would have Ted Nugent and The Stylistics and I would have Donna Summer and ELO. This was standard for us. At first, I'm pretty sure the cashiers raised an eyebrow. But they soon got used to it. If anyting, they used to wonder why a kid (and a black kid) so young would be buying all of this FM rock.

theAudience said:

I know you've been padding your Kylie collection, but won't admit it.

VoicesCarry said:

What the hell are you doing?

Chill, you're blowin' my cover here.

Damm!





tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

i knew it!!!

Chico1 said:

I hereby issue the both of you this CEASE AND DESIST order to put and end to this vicious rumor.

Either you comply immediately or my people will contact your people and your people can contact my people and Kylie can contact me personally.



Then Kylie, myself and her evil twin will settle this thing privately.
Now that's what I call an amicable solution.

Agreed?

( They might need to put on a little weight though.)

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

Kylie got some meat on her



Asked about her involvement with theAudience, Kylie brushed off all questions with a flirtatious giggle.

Natisse said:

Same here,I dont give a crap what the cashier thinks..the cashier isnt going home with me

VoicesCarry said:

Not true, yellow journalism

What she really said about tA was...

Floating on a cloud
Feeling high
It happens every time
Whenever I'm with my guy
Tripping on love
And it feels so good
I can't help myself
And I wouldn't if I could
`Cause he's got that certain touch
That I'm addicted to
Love's really got a hold on me
And there's nothing I can do

Oh I'm, I'm under the influence of love
And I know there's no doubt about it
I'm under the influence of love
And I know I can't live without it




tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm