GangstaFam said:

Sweet! I haven't gotten Missy's new CD yet. Maybe I need to have me a surgery!

RipHer2Shreds said:

That works. Call everyone you know for sympathy!

GangstaFam said:

I'm being silly and ruining your story. But...care to share which other CDs they got you? I hope one of them was something along the lines of...

RipHer2Shreds said:[quote]I'm being silly and ruining your story.quote]
Nah. It's funny when I think back about it. I was soaking it all in.

I got my first CD boombox in the fall of 1989 when I was in college. That was the main reason I got into Columbia House so I could build up my music collection with "free" CDs.

728huey said:

Did you cut it out from a magazine.

Before mp3s, I use to get columbia house cd's, copy them to tape and send them back to columbia house.

1994

CinisterCee said:

hey, i used to watch carnie's talk show, it was some top shelf entertainment.

Anxiety said:

Her show cracked me up. I think the term fag hag was invented for her, right down to her choice in husband.

RipHer2Shreds said:

on her talk show, she would just stand there holding her microphone with a worried look on her face. it was kind of painful to watch, actually. i loved the opening credits montage, though. i wish i'd saved an episode on tape.

Anxiety said:

The opening montage was composed mostly of shots of her holding her dachshund.

RipHer2Shreds said:

i remember the one part where she's outside bending over to pick up a newspaper and her homegirls come walking down the street and carnie gets all excited and starts waving. i loved that part.

I'm getting thread jacked by Carnie.

Cheek said:

oh

Christopher said:

Cheek said:

'When did you buy/get your first CD player?

Christopher said:

I think it was 1994... Finally I could play my Hits/B-Sides discs...

Cheek said:

i thought prince was a freak back then

Christopher said:

He's still...

Cheek said:

indeed

Christopher said:

And MJ is sexy!

I got my first CD player in 1990 and the first disc I bought was Prince's 'Graffiti Bridge'.

Cheek said:

Christopher said:

I told you so!

Cheek said:

Christopher said:

Lawd come on, you gotta leave Mickey outta of this thread damn.

Hotlegs said:

im sure he owns a cd player to

Mickey....






















...Mouse????

First of all, CDs were too damn expensive back in the 1980s. That's one of the main reasons I never bought one until 1994.

Also, most albums that were released on CD back then were pop/rock and most of the R&B albums that were released on CD were either old albums that had crossed over or new albums that they thought might cross over. I remember the first R&B station in my area to get a CD player. This was back in 1986 and they said on a certain date, they would feature "digital stereo". After that date came, they still had their turntables, but every now and then, they had a special station ID that said "WJMI...now in digital stereo". This ID was always followed by a song that was considered old at the time and had been a crossover hit when it had been popular. Most of the new songs I heard behind that particular station ID were Whitney Houston songs.

1988 - first cd lovesexy , first cd single .