Idolator
This post of 12" mixes from the likes of Madonna, Phil Collins, Janet Jackson, and Yello is really bringing me back to the music aisle at my local Pathmark, where I would while away my mother's grocery-shopping hours while poring over the weird assortment of $5.99 albums stuffed into the shelves. (Are there even any grocery stores that have music departments anymore? And no, Whole Foods' Putumayo displays don't count.) [The Lost Turntable]
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The Long Island in you is creeping out more and more each day. Pathmark music shopping...ah I remember it well. My first CD purchase ever was Appetite for Destruction and a Michael Jackson CD, same receipt. In the days of elongated cardboard casings. Fairly positive the spectrum spanning GnR & MJ combo predated the headlines of "music nerds prefer shuffle" by a good fifteen years.
there are random racks of cutout bin cds at my Wegmans.
"Stop buying your albums from the supermarket."
So in the UK, apparently, yes, according to Eddie Argos.
The Stop and Shop around here had 'em a while ago... the most random find (actually, the only one I would've bought) had to have been Gang of Four's "A Brief History of the Twentieth Century".
yes, most UK supermarkets of any reasonable size still have CDs, often considerably cheaper than eg HMV and Virgin although obv you can't usually get stuff week of release because they only stock "the chart" although if it's BIG big they'll have it.
also, this leads to the situation every six months or so where they think "christ look at this huge pile of CDs we have left over, let's knock them out for as cheap as poss, just to get rid (eg first girls aloud alBUM for 97p!).
my first purchases were also at the supermarket and were A Kind Of Magic by Queen and Raintown by Deacon Blue, ON TAPE!
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