$17 back then is like $38 in today's money. Pretty pricey.

@wuzihuzi

5 жыл бұрын

guess that's about the same we pay for a new LP now

@kodiejc4202

4 жыл бұрын

@@wuzihuzi Yeah that's about the price of last LP I bought, but I will only get one if I enjoy the whole album overall. I stream all my other music which would be one or two singles from an album. I can get it cheaper on ebay, and vintage shops, but may not be the best quality.

@amunra4015

3 жыл бұрын

Min wage in California in 1988 just rose to $4.25 that year. So 4 hours of work to buy one record. Today minimum wage is $12 so 4 hours of work would buy 6 months of unlimited music, yet people today say "oh we don't make enough"

@DripDripDrip69

3 жыл бұрын

@@amunra4015 As if records are the only thing people buy. Price of housing, childcare, healthcare, transportation, etc.. have all gone up massively, quality of life for middle class have been steady declining.

@DripDripDrip69

3 жыл бұрын

@Billius Madroggen More demand will lead to more production, the economy will only flourish if regular people have spare money to buy stuff. Economy stagnate if the 1% hoard all the wealth.

And I'm ignoring a $0.99 spotify for 3 months lol

@rodneybailey3833

5 жыл бұрын

spock lol same. I prefer the hard copy.

@peasantm3984

5 жыл бұрын

Seriously? 😂

@TsarOfRuss

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂lets face it bro! $0.99 is almost $1, thats alot of money 😂

@barbydolly7645

4 жыл бұрын

spock but that $0.99 is only to listen not to own.

@nathanmedina2809

4 жыл бұрын

spock i'm the type of guy who has music playlists and if I like a certain handful of songs from an album then I would actually by the cd

1988: Music is too expensive Internet: Patience...

@markdp1983

4 жыл бұрын

Yep and its severely harmed the industry...

@MrV902

4 жыл бұрын

@@markdp1983 And yet, they're all still millionaires. Boo-hoo. Boooo-hooooo.

@faizanjoyia

4 жыл бұрын

Yea that’s why in the 2000 pirate Bay took off

@wowcool8749

3 жыл бұрын

The only ones that suffer these days are the music executives that were raking it in. If you look at music celebs today and 35 years ago the lavish lifestyles are about the same.

@spinwaus

3 жыл бұрын

And the music shops themself are no more.

2:15 smart girl already realizing that ridiculous pricing schemes will lead to content piracy

@Sebbir

3 жыл бұрын

Omg you are right. That girl totally called it

@Musa812

3 жыл бұрын

No wonder cuz she is Asian

@scoobydoo936

3 жыл бұрын

The margin for the record companies was so high up until 1997 where it reached its peak that piracy didn’t bother them at all. It started to bother them when the revenues started to drop. It took the record companies ten years to adept to the new internet reality, by then others have taken over and the only answer to this was a never ending strong of law suits.

2:17 "it's too expensive and people will tape it off the radio or something" --- That's my girl 😂😂👍

@tefllife2024

4 жыл бұрын

Yep I used to tape songs from 2SM.

@noelgibson5956

3 жыл бұрын

I used to record songs off the radio. Often the radio DJ kept talking until the vocals almost started.....so I had permanent recording of his talking at the start of that song! In other cases, I'd miss the first bit of the song if I suddenly realised it was a song playing I really wanted.......but wasn't quite ready with the tape or button!

@eltoro969

3 жыл бұрын

As we did. Cassettes were the most common format among Gen X in 88. Record players were mostly a thing from the 70s and was in the mid 80s a bit outdated already. There was a small, compact cassette/radio player in every teenagers room. I never really understood the comeback of the vinyl among Gen X as most of us abandoned the format already in our teenage years.

@insomnia20422

3 жыл бұрын

me: *calculating her probable age today to decide on whether to make a - i wanna marry her - joke*

@noelgibson5956

3 жыл бұрын

@@insomnia20422 50.....give or take.

And tape songs off the radio was EXACTLY what we did!

@ibnyahud

4 жыл бұрын

I think I'm from the last generation of kids that taped the radio to make mixtapes

@andhewonders115

4 жыл бұрын

I think I'm from the first generation.

@jasonmgavitt2357

3 жыл бұрын

Ibn Yahud i was a teen in the late 90s.a bunch of my music was taped off the radio or taped from another cassette. I remember my first album was the Joshua tree that was on cassette and taped off a tape.

@SanaSamaha

3 жыл бұрын

Taping off the radio back then is just like illegally downloading music today or using a youtube to mp3 converter.

@paianis

3 жыл бұрын

@@SanaSamaha Nah, taping the radio and downloading music off of KZread for personal use are both legal as long as no copy protection is circumvented.

And then the internet came along, and destroyed the record labels' pricing model, proving why one should never settle for the status quo.

@6ixConfessions

4 жыл бұрын

also proving that technology changes the world & that you have two choices: keep up or get left behind.

@johnnymcblaze

3 жыл бұрын

They have fixed the system since then. Own everything, and nothing can go outside your control.

@simonfivez2947

3 жыл бұрын

Also proving that no-one gets paid anymore for the music, especially the artists and musicians

@eltoro969

3 жыл бұрын

I`m 52 and I remember when CDs came along. It was strange because we thought nothing could top vinyl and cassettes so most of us were skeptical to it. Even record store owners hated CDs and many even didn`t want to display them or advertise for them the first years. It just shows how conservative we are when it comes to changes in culture.

@MashupsByMandy

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonfivez2947 most income from any artists is in ticket sales for live concerts. Was like that 40 years ago and it is still like that today. Them not getting as much income from the sale of digital copies of music just makes them actually have to perform instead of sitting around for decades collecting royalties. Shows who has talent and who just wants a single hit for fame and money.

People seemed so chill in the 80s

@tefllife2024

4 жыл бұрын

I was 14 in 1988 and it was the best time to be alive, life was simpler and people were friendlier.

@hestiapetrina9522

3 жыл бұрын

@@tefllife2024 I was born in August 1988, and glad to know that. If I can come back to 1988

@robertt9342

3 жыл бұрын

Oliver M . It was pretty good all the way into the early 2000s. It was just simpler in the 80's and 90s.

@tefllife2024

3 жыл бұрын

@@hestiapetrina9522 to think that while I was browsing through some record store, you were being delivered! Lol. Yes, I have some of my best memories back then!!!

@tefllife2024

3 жыл бұрын

@@robertt9342 yep till about 2004, I think.

"they've been going up spastic... for ages" Aussie gold.

@namakudamono

3 жыл бұрын

Captain Zane I thought I misheard her initially, so replayed that line a few times. It’s not something I recall hearing on Home & Away or Neighbours in the 90s.

@trojan403

3 жыл бұрын

namakudamono But pretty much how every other Aussie was speaking at the time

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

It was ace to hear that!

@josh371

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we used the word spastic or spaz all the time

@hydrocooledcarrot

3 жыл бұрын

Now you can't even say it without someone spazzing out

I remember going to a Music CD store and just casually taking a CD from the shelf and listening on the CD players provided. Such a good experience

@whoogie

3 жыл бұрын

I do that at my record store. Today

2:22 This child understood more about the music industry than the execs in the late 90s did.

"The total eradication of vinyl." * Laughs in hipster *

@TotalTuxedo

3 жыл бұрын

Don't laugh too hard. Your overweight body will rip your needlessly tight clothing.

@toranking001

3 жыл бұрын

@@TotalTuxedo wtf

@meroinheroin

3 жыл бұрын

@@TotalTuxedo gottemm

@a_green_cat

3 жыл бұрын

@@TotalTuxedo jeez haha

1:49 Why is she sitting in a shopping trolley???

@disabledanarchy

5 жыл бұрын

Because it's the 80ssssssss, man. :P

@axcelblack2808

5 жыл бұрын

Newtown in the 80s

@MrLunithy

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't even notice.....

@aneyefoaneye9348

5 жыл бұрын

Sold out

@Michael69

5 жыл бұрын

Did you never do that as a youngen in Australia?

The way that CD sales are declining and vinyl is having a huge revival right now. 🤯 Even cassettes are coming back. I don’t think the physical format will ever completely die out.

@Dongonzales123

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, CDs were the "rational" choice, but nowadays that's streaming. Vinyl and cassettes just have a certain coolness factor that cds just don't have

@kunaljanvalkar2850

3 жыл бұрын

Vinyl also has longetivity factor whereas CDs are prone to damage by mere scratching, dust etc. Streaming actually leases you music which is temporary. Even downloaded and stored music has shelf life of 5-6, possibly 10 years. Apart from this the rapid technology and hardware switches makes it impossible for such format to be useful. On other hand vinyl lasts longer, sounds clearer, the mechanism is manual and dont require memory or internet connection, technology switches dont mean anything as long as you have people who can repair the players. The huge advantage streaming has is the budget which makes the music available to largest demographic of music consumers: young people. The largest disadvantages vinyl has is the unavailability of graphic media. If you love to collect and preserve music and have extra money only then vinyl is a good option.

@MancstaSam

3 жыл бұрын

I've got an old Sony Ericsson Walkman phone from 2007 in my bits and bobs drawer and the songs that have been downloaded and stored still work 14 yrs later

@censortube8838

3 жыл бұрын

Last I checked a vinyl record was like $68 from JBHIFI

@deaddoll1361

3 жыл бұрын

@@kunaljanvalkar2850 Vinyl is just as prone to scratching, probably moreso, and dust is an even bigger problem. I'm not convinced they sound better, only different, and certainly not different enough for me to go through the process of cleaning the record, putting it on the player, flipping it over after three or four tracks and packing it away afterwards. The only thing they have going for them is their elaborate packaging. As for cassettes, the OP must be joking.

Love how most refer to them as Compact Disc not CDs

@TsarOfRuss

4 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say that too

@busybusiness9121

3 жыл бұрын

3:28 listen to this then.

@Kage-jk4pj

3 жыл бұрын

Refer*

@breannasmith5742

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kage-jk4pj honestly never notice that, but thanks for reminding me of this great clip 👍🏻

@eltoro969

3 жыл бұрын

It was mostly english speaking people who called it that. The rest of us called it CD from get go.

I was 12 in 1988...today is my 44th birthday and my son is 20 today lol

@steph2137

4 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1988 I am now 31 will be 32 in October 😁👍

@rollno38

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1988, 31 now, 32 in December, and still bachelor. 😊😊😊

@rushikeshpande8780

3 жыл бұрын

@Patrick Van der Werf they still don't teach math properly in future I guess.

@hestiapetrina9522

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in August 1988 and now 31 have 2 sons.

@CoreReactionz

3 жыл бұрын

I was -6 years old in 1988

I love how Rick Astley is quietly looking on in the background, the harbinger of the future role of music as memes on KZread and TikTok.

@SpectreOZ

3 жыл бұрын

*Richard Marx "should've known better"* not Rick Astley, your ears deceive you LOL 🤣

@TheGreenDoggoOfWisdom

2 жыл бұрын

They aren’t talking about the song in the background, please watch the video before commenting.

@AHHHHHHHHHHHHl

Жыл бұрын

@@SpectreOZ 3:00

@SpectreOZ

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreenDoggoOfWisdom Well how would I know the song playing in the back ground if I hadn't watched the video? 😜 Additionally the original comment has been edited who knows when? Perhaps after my initial reaction? 🤔

@TheGreenDoggoOfWisdom

Жыл бұрын

@@SpectreOZ I don’t exactly remember what was in the original comment, but it still said something about the Rick Astley records in the background.

First thing in an 80s video from Australia is the interviewers mullet. lol.

@andrewreed1329

3 жыл бұрын

Yep and a ugly mullet too

@arthurdent6828

3 жыл бұрын

Brown Street Boy for life..

Pocket money? What's that? We working class kids just had to tape our favourite songs off the radio during Ugly Phil's Top 40.

@tefllife2024

4 жыл бұрын

In 1988 I bought a blank recordable cassette for about $2 and taped songs from 2SM.

@orphanoforbit7588

3 жыл бұрын

And steal our school lunch from the supermarket.

@IDontTalkToCops

3 жыл бұрын

I have such vivid memories of being 9 or 10 in ‘87-‘88 in my bedroom with the cassette deck on pause waiting to record songs off American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. Lol. That was before I found triple J. If you had the dual tape decks you could make a mix tape of all your favourite songs. I’d spend hours making tapes and writing the song names on the sleeve of the cassette cover

@lee-annebarrett366

3 жыл бұрын

@@IDontTalkToCops same here.

@adrianburns7975

3 жыл бұрын

@@IDontTalkToCops im the same age ... recording from the radio was frought with danger though .. you always had the chance of having "dinner's ready" in the middle of a song you were recording!

Damn miss the 80s I wish I could go back that time again.

@laidtorest387

3 жыл бұрын

Well Oakley is making Frogskins again, and Reebok do Pumps from time to time. Just get onto those and pump INXS from your Torana and bang, you're there.

Growing up in the 90s, buying cassettes or CDs was extortion, mp3 was the greatest thing to happen. CD prices fell very quickly.

@Paul_Rohde

3 жыл бұрын

The basic marketing formula was how to get the most blood out of a stone. With online ordering now, goods are more competitive, but services still stick to the old formula, (plus real-estate costs for businesses).

@GG-ud8id

3 ай бұрын

I remember getting Spiceworld for my 8th or 9th birthday and seeing the $34.99 sticker from Brashs on the back. Didnt mean much to me then! Bloody expensive then and now!

“How do you feel about paying more!”... “well I don’t like that at all ☝️😤!”... “thanks... back to the studio.”

this was still back in the day when music was much much more elevated in popular and youth culture now we have shows, the internet, phones and games obviously music is still important, but back then for some people it was their whole swag

@stewartwozniak7933

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Your social clique in high school and early adulthood was kinda determined by what music you liked.

@jasonmgavitt2357

3 жыл бұрын

You nailed that one.

@kaspaaro

3 жыл бұрын

@@stewartwozniak7933 what music you GOT

@Sundog1985

3 жыл бұрын

Its funny, I don't think this shift changed THAT long ago either - maybe within the last 10-15 years.

@eltoro969

3 жыл бұрын

True. The music you liked was very much connected to your personality and style and you rarely had friends that liked other types of music than you did. If you were at a party and people had pop songs over the speakers and you put on a metal song you were possibly thrown out lol.

2:34 the shot literally got Rick Rolled 😂

One thing to note about 1988 is, is that CD's sold more than vinyl that year for the first time. A record that would stand until like 2021 when vinyl records started on a comeback that is still rising.

Speaking with an Australian accent looks like it burns a lot of calories.

@MrTuxy

3 жыл бұрын

More like fast food was expensive just like the music back then.

@Beanie3500

3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Chopsticks ha ha that’s quality

@michaelellams9105

3 жыл бұрын

I was 31 in 88 and 80 kilos we were alot fitter and thinner back then as there was a lot more labouring work you could just apply for and learn on the job none of this " do you have a resume".

@aftrdrk7263

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelellams9105 I was 16 in 88 and I remember the job market as I worked through high school . It was a good era

@desiolle2874

3 жыл бұрын

half as much as understanding it...

When the music industry was still interesting.

@arthurdent6828

3 жыл бұрын

You're both so wrong...

@arthurdent6828

3 жыл бұрын

@Nemesis You need to look outside the mainstream world.

@arthurdent6828

3 жыл бұрын

@Nemesis What did you listen to back in the day that you liked? I'll see if I can offer some suggestions.

These videos are so cool. Such a time capsule getting ordinary people's genuine thoughts and insights.

I remember my dad used to take us every other month to this extremely big cd shop so we could listen to latest music....oh I miss those days!

1988 is pretty early for CDs. I remember in 1994 (when I was in grade 9) it was pretty rare for a kid to have a portable CD player; and everyone was still passing around mixtapes, etc.

@arrowb3408

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, also the laser disc movie which got 4 times bigger disc than musical CD.

@tefllife2024

2 жыл бұрын

Remember cassingles?

@Mario_N64

Жыл бұрын

We got our first CD player in 1989.

Still watching this in August 2020!

1988. The Internet and free music downloads just a feeble glimmer on the far distant horizon. So near but yet so far.

1:45 The guy on the right is about to say something so smart it will blow your mind

@zimfan101

3 жыл бұрын

It was probably something that would have saved the music industry!!

@Godsecution

3 жыл бұрын

then he just said yeah.

@Liasos88

3 жыл бұрын

@@Godsecution I meant after that, they cut him off.

@michaelearthling

3 жыл бұрын

he was about to follow "yeah" with "i reckon so", but they edited it out because he wasn't sitting in a shopping trolley.

Sadly, I’m old enough to remember when going to the record store was a BIG DEAL.

@cominooculto

3 жыл бұрын

Actually not sadly

@drsal

3 жыл бұрын

Not sadly! I miss the the regular jaunt to HMV, Insanity and the like. You can't emulate that on a computer.

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I used to love going to Missing Link & AuGoGo on payday.

I remember changing the price stickers to get it cheaper lol

@avalondreaming1433

2 жыл бұрын

Lol.

As someone who has produced my own music album I can tell you as fact, that the classic music industry is a thing of the past. People today think they should be getting their music for free. An artist like me will never recoup the money it took to produce their album. And you wonder why all your music sounds so much the same? It's because your not supporting artists who still produce totally original music. Even CD's now are going out. The whole thing is broken!!!

@polycube868

Жыл бұрын

It costs MONEY to record an album, to pay the session players, to pay for the studio equipment, for the appointment to record, to press the album onto CD or vinyl, I agree, if I enjoy an artist's tunes I don't for one second think they owe me a free album, only entitled douchebags think that!

@legendofzelda2324

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you are the reason why music sucks today. If you loved doing it you wouldn’t wine and complain about it. You care more about the money it seems

@GG-ud8id

3 ай бұрын

Taylor seems to have recouped her costs. Maybe consider branding yourself an dorky underdog while being breathtakingly fit and gorgeous

Yeah, music was stupidly expensive back then. Price gouging is what it came down to

@AlexA-bn2wb

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget that back then people were not buying expensive smartphones/computers/Tablets back then...

17 dollars in 1988 is worth $37 today! That's crazy to think about paying that much for music in this day and age

@MrJoefizzy

4 жыл бұрын

I had about 4 records in 1988. Now I have thousands of songs all on my phone!

It's surprising how quick prices dropped when sites like Napster come along.

@EmulationDojo

3 жыл бұрын

At this time, the “world wide web” wasn’t available to the general public and it also predated the 14.4k modem, let alone the 28k. The only thing we saw at the time was the change in preferred media.

@s8wc3

3 жыл бұрын

CDs are still 20 bucks or more, an album on iTunes is still 20 some. The only thing that's changed is our habits, most people just buy singles now.

@wienersmcbutts

3 жыл бұрын

Prices didn’t drop at all.

@ClosedEyeVisualisations

3 жыл бұрын

Why is it suprising, the net made them free

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

The problem with MP3s & now streaming is sound quality. Still can't beat CDs or LPs through a good hifi. A lot of the people getting into music these days won't know what they're missing

I love these videos. Thank you ABC

Their voices and accents sound slightly different from today.

I bought the first CD player ever sold in the state of Nevada. Used to have cd parties, all were amazed at what they were seeing/ hearing.

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

Remember video disc players? The video disc was about the size of a record.

Was that woman sitting in a trolley 1:49

@MargotHypnos

5 жыл бұрын

@bench training Really, that was a thing back then. How funny trends can be. Cool at the time, weird later on in the future.

@natv1987

3 жыл бұрын

@@MargotHypnos haha remember planking? That's going to be fun to explain to the next few generations.

@michaelellams9105

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah we pushed friends around especially if they were to wasted to walk after a night out and when we needed groceries take it back.

Thanks! This helped me making a choice between CDs and records

This brings back memories of what it was like to be a teenager in the late 80s.Yes, I remeber taping songs off the TV on a Saturday morning.

80s Girls are so beautiful 😍

@arrowb3408

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha... Which ones? Can't you see those MESSY LONG HAIRED STYLE at the beginning at studio? I lost interest on those UGLY but favor the light VIOLET shirt girl. Never change and still spot such neat and clean girl.

@Band_Aid_Man_

3 жыл бұрын

they're your moms, buddy!

@LukeSeeleygamertagisV3XChintzy

3 жыл бұрын

Not anymore they're not

@DV-zv4ox

2 жыл бұрын

As long as you don't mind the hair ;)

When Internet came in, it destroyed the music industry. Back when people go out and buy a copyrighted songs, nowadays, it's easy to rip songs on the interwebs.

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

True, but for the best sound quality through a good hifi, that streamed music & MP3s don't cut it.

@RideTheLightning761

3 жыл бұрын

Seapin1 I agree, it feels like illegally downloading music was just a fad because while I’m sure people still do it, streaming services make it so much more easier to just play what you want at an instance. With that being said, Vinyl sure has made a comeback in recent years partly because of what you said, it being better quality but I’m sure it also has to do with nostalgia.

@ilakya

3 жыл бұрын

It's easier to pay subscription and forgot about it.

@arrowb3408

3 жыл бұрын

Well, in the past the record company and artist suck our money to buy CD. Now, it's OUR customers' right to have free song with good quality songs by our own hand not by the money. In the old CD time, the most valuable CD with the best acoustic quality AGAIN still MJ. The rest musical artists belongs to B level including Queen, Bin Jovi, Nerana, whoever in 80s. Still MJ the best and worth buying CD.

@Te3time

3 жыл бұрын

thank god lmao I still remember those ads that would play in movie theaters trying to tell you downloading music is a worse crime than murder

I used to LOVE watching Alex Papps (the host seen here at the beginning) and Andrew Daddo on The Factory every Saturday morning. Life was good.

@teresakym2672

9 ай бұрын

Made me also think of Off The Dish, with Cameron Daddo, in the afternoons, too. I miss the 80s so much ❤

1:01 Damn, this is just one elaborate Rick Roll from 1988.

@arrowb3408

3 жыл бұрын

Boys Okey. Chicks... 89% ERRRRR AND YUCK. LOL

Good old Greville Records! Still there, too.

This is so interesting to see, people talked so different back then

@ange3489

3 жыл бұрын

Less impact from the us!

*$17! that's still alot of money for 1988*

@MrBibi86

5 жыл бұрын

@Jojew thank you random troll :)

@juniormilly3650

5 жыл бұрын

a lot

@MrBibi86

5 жыл бұрын

@@juniormilly3650 lol how many accounts do you have?

@AussieTVMusic

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrBibi86 He has alot.

@charlestayes5363

5 жыл бұрын

@Jojew He went to public school in a garage pail 😂

$17- for a cd in 1988? Were they budget releases? They cost more like 25.

1:04 Even in this interview i was rick rolled.

that lady was so right it was the beginning of the eradication of vinyl. i was born in 1999 and growing up all i knew were cds. glad vinyl has been slowing making a comeback though i love my record player!

@Stagnating_

3 жыл бұрын

Yea it's crazy, was born in the 90's too and can only remember a couple of times in my childhood where I saw vinyls being played. CD's totally took over in the 90's. The funny thing is how vinyl sales actually overtook CD sales for the first time since 1986 just last year in the US and I guess the trend is same in many countries. Personally I buy vinyl now too if I want a physical copy. Mostly because you get to see a bigger cover art, but I do occasionally play them as well.

$17!?! In the 90’s CD’s were $29.95 and cassettes $19.95. They didn’t come down.

@philipzamora4259

5 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? I lived through the 90s, and brand new CDs were $15 and cassettes were $13.

@Patrick_AUBRY

5 жыл бұрын

@@philipzamora4259 Those kids are Australians

@amp279

4 жыл бұрын

@@philipzamora4259 Not true, i worked in one of the first big places to sell cd's in inner city Sydney, all new releases of major artists were $25:99 to $29:99, if you wanted a double album like Floyds the wall, it was $34:99.

@aus80srockradio94

4 жыл бұрын

@@philipzamora4259 Wrong Philip. paulisdead is correct.

@troywright359

4 жыл бұрын

@@aus80srockradio94 They were £19.99 where I lived me old mucker

oh the memories.. look at those hair styles lol.

I love the Aussie accent. I thought that CDs came out in the 90s until a few months ago.

'The Factory' on Saturday morning with Alex Pappas (and his mullet) and Andrew Daddo on the ABC. We watched 'Beatbox' prior to this gem in the early 80s. So many memories.

@gearoiddom

3 жыл бұрын

I remember him from Home and Away!

I still don't mind giving the Vinyl a spin, and it sounds good to me even the ones that have crackles and pops in them it adds some atmosphere. Back in this time all i had though was Cassettes.

Oh the 80s and little problems compared to 2020. Take me back please.

The biggest thing i miss about records is the sound of the needle on vinyl, & let's not forget their amazing cover art, here's to all those fantastic illustrators & graphic designers of days gone by.

@hullstar242

3 жыл бұрын

Still lots of terrific album cover designers working today

@rishabhdeb8747

3 жыл бұрын

hullstar242 exactly.

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

Much better art than what was on the Edison wax cylinders

@amp279

3 жыл бұрын

@@hullstar242 Good to know friend, I worked in a record/cd store as a young teen & there wasn't the same impact putting out cd's as there was albums, the square footage really packed a punch for the displays & unless you go into specialist music stores now, it's just not the same. I miss going into Phantom or Red Eye Records, it was a blast, but hey, digital music is convenient & here to stay.

When i was young my father bought me cd player it was best gift for that time.

Man I remember as a kid I held on to my Cassette player for years didn't move over to CD because of how fragile CD's were in comparison to cassettes plus when walking if you moved to fast CD's would skip where as Cassettes didn't have this issue. Eventually CD players got a lot better at playing music without skipping and got this incredible Sony CD Player from my Aunt & Uncle that was amazing anti-skip features meant it would never skip a beat and being able to select specific tracks instead of just fast forwarding or rewinding was great. Kids today will never understand what's the difference between A side and B Side lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣

1:03 He's never gonna give you up, and he's never gonna let you down

@jacobarmour6325

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that lol it's weird he had a whole music career separate from the internet ever existing lolol

No way were new release CD's "around $17" in April '88. No chance. Not anywhere. I first bought a CD player in Jan '87 & the first CD I bought was $32. They soon came down to $29.99 - but they were never under $20 for new-releases back then.

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

You're right. I seem to remember always paying about $28 for CDs & LPs were about $18 I think.

@aus80srockradio94

3 жыл бұрын

@@Seapin1 That is correct!

@tefllife2024

2 жыл бұрын

The $29.99 you wrote sounds about right, I remember that being the price tag on CDs in Brashs Pitt Street when I'd come in and browse.

@aus80srockradio94

2 жыл бұрын

@@tefllife2024 Yes I did plenty of browsing too - because buying a CD was a financially big decision due to the prices (and being a school kid with no money, LOL). Even remember put CD's on lay by!

@tefllife2024

2 жыл бұрын

@@aus80srockradio94 I bought Roxettes "Look Sharp" as my very first CD. My mum flipped that I paid $30 for it. For the next few weeks all I got is continuous lecture on why I'd pay $30 for a small disc with music. She did signs of the crosses and oh my god he's taking drugs, he must be on drugs. Lol.

lol @ 'they've been going up spastic!' 2:00

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

No such thing as pc back then, hey.

I believe pre 1988/89 there wasn't a CD factory in Australia, so all CD's were manufactured overseas, especially from japan which are known for their great sound.

In 88' I got my 1st CD player for my home stereo...It was an AKAI... Then I went to Tower Records and bought my 1st CD... Depeche Mode - BLACK CELEBRATION... Now...2020...I have every Depeche Mode album stored as hi res FLAC files on my Sony Walkman... Is it better? *ABSOLUTELY!!!* I miss the 80's...but love today's technology.

@arrowb3408

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha NEVER HEARD OF THAT GROUP NAME IN 88. But I will check it up since you brought it up. MJ was already famous back then.

@arrowb3408

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha that music was still not known for me and not my type, compared with Miami Vice theme song got more vibe than this dull midi music or EDM in 21 century.

@CuRsEd_gamer-ot6pj

3 жыл бұрын

Even 99% of modern people don't know what FLAC is lol

Oh the times when CD vs. Vinyl was one of the big controversies of our day.

I was born in 84 and miss vinyl era! I love to hear and keep them, vinyls are more interactive than cds, plus sounds is bit warmer and real to me

I'm from the U.S. and you can find second hand cd albums for three dollars each depending on which thrift store and they're always in good condition. I'm aware that cd's are on there way out for new technologies such as digital downloads but I prefer physical formats, because I'm use to it even though I was born in the early 2000s. By the way these days I can buy a discounted cd album at Walmart for less than seven dollars whereas a new record album at the same store cost more than twenty dollars to get. which would you choose?

@newremote

3 жыл бұрын

It's pretty much the same in Australia. There are thousands of thrift and charity shops (called op-shops here) that sell CDs for 2 or 3 dollars, as well as specialised 2nd-hand CD and vinyl places. And most of the bigger chain stores have discounted CDs.

@eirikrdberg1161

2 жыл бұрын

Cds cost 1 dollar here in Norway 2022. At second hand stores. I always buythem when I find something good. Cds will one day be Cool again. Just wait.

1:09 Rick Astley in the background

@danzigvssartre

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, there was a time when people would actually pay money to listen to "Never Gonna Give You Up."

@GeneralMcNuggs

3 жыл бұрын

The very first Rick Roll televised.

1:53 she is clearly a time traveler a) she is wearing clothes that you can easily buy today b) her voice sounds more modern c) she is sitting in a shopping trolley which is what a lot of dumb gen z's do d) her hair dye us very modern/in trend with today

@aakksshhaayy

4 жыл бұрын

She was so far ahead of her time lel

@aussiejinjo

4 жыл бұрын

find out if she's been on ApexTV

@markdp1983

4 жыл бұрын

its not like its the 1880's.. Youth culture in many ways hasnt changed that much since 1988. Plenty just gets recycled...

@nathanmedina2809

4 жыл бұрын

Were the hell you get z🤦 you mean millennials. Also a lot of clothes from the 80s can still pass today. People just over stereotype 80s with big highlighter colors when it wasn't all really like that much.

@catm2454

4 жыл бұрын

and the glasses

Wish I could go back to 1988 or earlier....when humanity was still decent and sane.

@soleil5923

4 жыл бұрын

dm9542 🐑

@Liz-mp5dq

3 жыл бұрын

It wasn't

I approximately remember these days conversely in the U.S. .... a cassette was about 10$, a 45rpm 7" record 3$ and vinyl LP 15$, a single CD release 16$ and a double CD around 25$. CD box set would set you back 40$ to over 100$ in some instances.

This is really an ode to the music scene today, people these days are that hard pressed to buy a spotify premium account let alone buy their favourite CD's or Records, the artists just aren't gonna survive without record sales. They have to make their money from a live setting, I don't think this should be a debate about the quality of cds compared to vinyl, it should rather be about people assuming their music just farts out of thin air into existence

@MrBibi86

5 жыл бұрын

artists have to work alot harder to make their money now and actually tour alot more.. you can't be a studio musician anymore and just bring out an album every 2-3 years and make a couple of music videos and you are done.

@roxxedk9897

5 жыл бұрын

​@@MrBibi86​ The internet has allowed other forms of revenue from music releases though that dont always relate to direct sales. It may not be as much as touring, but like wise its much easier to distribute music through modern electronic means both in is construction and world wide reach without needing the calibration of entire groups of artists and professionals/workers to put it together.

@SwopCovers

5 жыл бұрын

An artist can make more money from all the different music platforms. An artist would get around $2 per CD/Record sold (due to extra costs involved) whereas they get $1 every 100 plays on music platforms. For comparison, Britney Spears sold 600000 copies of her album In the Zone on the first week, which gets her $1.2 million in revenue (at the rate of $2 per record) whereas pretty much all popular musicians today produce and release their own music and get hundreds of millions of views on multiple platforms, raking in hell of a lot more than 1.2 million. To be exact, $3.3 million if they get 100 million play on ONE song on Spotify, KZread, Apple Music and google music platforms. That times 12 for a 12 song album. Not to mention, this is quite a conservative estimate for today’s biggest artists.

@wanking5425

5 жыл бұрын

Like everything else the blend between capitalism and technology negatively affects with increased competition. Emerging artists begging people to hit up their insta

@obiwankenobi661

4 жыл бұрын

why is that a bad thing? it shifted from recorded music to live performance. i dont understand why so many people think that making money with music MUST come from recorded media... also, nowadays you can download production software for free, so in a way, yes, it does fart out of thin air

A year before I was born and I wish I was born a decade before 1989!

@tytube3001

3 жыл бұрын

you have grown

@alexlock6813

3 жыл бұрын

Let me guess "you was born in the wrong generation "

@1:50 is that lady sitting in her shopping trolley being interviewed? Am I seeing this right??

01:50. She's sitting in a shopping trolley. s🅱️innla.😂

So we not mentioning the fact that there’s a grown woman in a trolley

Bring back that Aussie accent

I didnt have a radio or cassette player in my car ...it was and Austin A30, this was about 1975. So l use to drive with my portable radio on the passagers seat, l took it everywhere with me, went through packets of batteries very quickly. 1977 went overseas and had to buy a new radio and get use to English radio stations and trying to find the one with the best music. Bought a record player, my very first , was so excited to have it. Going and buying records after work , on the Saturdays.

What's the name of the song in the background?

Sheesh $17 au in the late 80’s that would of been a good few hours work

The kids always suffer.

@controllerbrain

3 жыл бұрын

Did they end up suffering? I don't think they did.

Impressed with the track at the start being played during the interview. In The Evening - Sheryl Lee Ralph

There was a program in the USA on PBS called "Newton's Apple" which had a similar "CD vs. LP?" episode in the '80s. It was the first time I had ever seen a CD, actually, though they expected viewers to be familiar with them already. I recall a mock argument between a male and female host where they took turns saying "CD!" and "LP!" back and forth. I also didn't know what they meant by "LP" since I had always called them "records" almost exclusively. Yeah, I was very young. :)

3:28 this guy alone was responsible that the compact disc is actually known as CD

@Seapin1

3 жыл бұрын

He was hip with the lingo the kids use.

@michaelearthling

3 жыл бұрын

he went on to invent the acronym SUV and RV before retiring to live off the royalty cheques, which he called RC's, but that never caught on.

1:49 cool as, sitting in a shopping trolley ... :)

I've still got my CD singles that I bought in 88' 8cm discs they are and have 3 or 4 tracks on them.

Im 28 and I love records!

@pickleadaykeepsthedoctoraw5542

3 жыл бұрын

That's admitting you're a sucker. Typical consumer.

3:25 Macaulay Culkin's father?

@CD-oq8em

3 жыл бұрын

Dressed like the Fonz

I bet one of these people from this video are watching this and saying "I remember that!"

WAIT is that "Sancho" from the Alf Stewart doodleburger vids!?!? Wow 😂

Can anyone tell me what the song that plays in the background

What happened to the Australian accent? It used to be so iconic, now it's different.

@rjaxxxas

4 жыл бұрын

Iconic 😆

@tytube3001

3 жыл бұрын

internet

@ViolentGenius

3 жыл бұрын

There are different Australian accents depending where you go in the country.

@MrFaceeatingcancer

3 жыл бұрын

Also Blame It On Australian Kids constantly watching American TV shows . Believe it or not the TV shows you watch can actually affect the accent you have

@rdmz135

3 жыл бұрын

The whole world is being americanized

0:47 Cassettes:)

2021 records are coming back into fashion now. Record players are back for those who love the retro style.

CD's NUTZ