Why I Shouldn't Be Allowed To Visit Thrift Stores
Recently I had to drop off some clothes at the local charity shop and even though I knew better, I had to browse through the old vinyl.
You readers know I am a big music person, so I like to peruse the discarded libraries of people's past tastes, to find something weird or unique.
Plus, top that with them being dirt cheap, I can easily develop a vinyl problem.
So this time while browsing the shelves, in amidst an obscene amount of 90's hip hop, was this little gem.
'How retarded', I thought.
And I admit I even like disco.
But for a kids' album?
I had to check it out.
I purchase it and head home.
I didn't have my turntable out, so I had to search my storage space for it.
Well, that turned in to an ordeal.
Then I had to find the audio cables and grounding wire because, of course, they weren't with the turntable.
Then I realized that I could only listen to it on my Denon receiver.
While I was doing this I figured I could finally get around to digitizing all my vinyl to keep on file, so I might as well hook it all up to my computer.
The problem with that is now I had no audio system for the television in my bedroom.
Thanks to getting my tax refunds recently, I figured 'what the heck', and decided to go out the next day and get a new system.
Sounds simple enough, so I figured Big Red should have something doable.
No dice.
Checked three Big Reds and they either only had boomboxes and iPod bays, or really cheap and crappy theater systems.
Now I could have easily gone to Best Buy, or Circuit City, but I have heard way too many horror stories about both places, so I figured good old standby, Sears, should have something.
Long story short [too late], I found a decent JVC system and brought it home.
Man, was that thing heavy.
The subwoofer must weigh at least 75 pounds by itself.
Anywho, I get that all set up to the bedroom TV, and proceed to set up the Denon tuner to my computer.
Took about two hours total.
So I finally throw Disco MM on the platter, and boy was I right: it was super-cheezey.
Ha ha.
Honestly, who was the target market for this?
Did kids really want a Disco MM album?
I guess so.
Ack.
Oh man, it's bad.
For instance, check this out.
Ha ha.
In addition to Disco MM, I also purchase some other cheezey music that I will post about later.
5 Comments:
Love it. I have a huge vinyl collection that I occasionally digitize. I run into the some story having to find my turntable then the cables...The things we do for music.
We had this in my house for some reason. I almost fell out of my chair when I saw it here.
It really is that bad.
We used to have this record, too. Funny thing is that we were trailer park poor and bought it from a thrift store back then (early to mid-80s).
We used to get packs of three or four kids records. Ever hear of Disco Duck?
Oh my god, I had that too! I am sure it's still in my parents' basement. I think it had 'Macho Mouse' or 'Disco Duck' on it or something.
Yah, 'Disco Duck' was done by Rick Dees.
There's a 'Macho Duck' on this Mickey album.
I'll have to post it.
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