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CT XXXII - ENDS.

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BarcaDeac said:
yup. had an AIWA one with 3 CDs and 2 tape decks.
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I’m looking at mine right now. Not sure if it’s set up or even works anymore but it made the move to this house and is here in the basement.

Wonder what’s in the tape decks?
 
Oh hell yeah. One side is an allman brothers “best of” tape I remember getting for like $1 at a gas station. The other side is Queen at Wembley 86.
 
One thing I don't miss about my old school is the obligation to participate in department themed Halloween costumes. I would've had to have been a lame-ass Care Bear today, instead of the greatest character in the entire Disney Catalogue.
 
Free lunch extended to November 23. Tiny baby infant Jesus is truly blessing us.
 
I later upgraded my stereo via the first few paychecks I ever earned at Boater's World. Bought some Polk floor speakers, an Onkyo receiver, and my parents gave me their 50-CD Sony changer they never used. That setup moved with me a few times until we got ready to move to NC and I put it out on the street.

now I have my dad's old Thorens turntable and 2 Marantz amps with bookshelf speakers I bought. he said it was a very expensive setup at the time and each component goes for a few thousand on EBay. I'd like to find a CD player to add in but was shocked to find that CD players are like multiple hundreds of dollars. All of the cheaper ones look like ass.
 
BarcaDeac said:
I later upgraded my stereo via the first few paychecks I ever earned at Boater's World. Bought some Polk floor speakers, an Onkyo receiver, and my parents gave me their 50-CD Sony changer they never used. That setup moved with me a few times until we got ready to move to NC and I put it out on the street.

now I have my dad's old Thorens turntable and 2 Marantz amps with bookshelf speakers I bought. he said it was a very expensive setup at the time and each component goes for a few thousand on EBay. I'd like to find a CD player to add in but was shocked to find that CD players are like multiple hundreds of dollars. All of the cheaper ones look like ass.
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Oh yeah, I upgraded to an Onkyo, a Sony 100-CD changer, and some big ass Polk speakers.

The salesman at the stereo store in Raleigh sent me a handwritten thank you note when I bought the speakers.
 
WRS said:
Free lunch extended to November 23. Tiny baby infant Jesus is truly blessing us.
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Now they’re specifically capping it at $10 equivalent. Which if it’s being catered then n/a but we get ours at a food hall/cafeteria.
 
deacfan78 said:
Does anyone remember the first CD they bought? Mine was the Iron Eagle soundtrack from Camelot Music at Hanes Mall.
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My sister and I did a 12 CD initiation order from Columbia House in the summer of 1992. We had cassettes up until then. It included Ten, Achtung Baby, Billy Joel's Greatest Hits, We Can't Dance, and I think maybe an Aerosmith Album.
 
BiffTannen said:
Oh yeah, I upgraded to an Onkyo, a Sony 100-CD changer, and some big ass Polk speakers.

The salesman at the stereo store in Raleigh sent me a handwritten thank you note when I bought the speakers.
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yeah maybe it was the Sony 100-CD now that I think about it. It was terrible at playing burned CDs, though.
 
06deacon said:
Now they’re specifically capping it at $10 equivalent. Which if it’s being catered then n/a but we get ours at a food hall/cafeteria.
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Is this your way of telling me we work at the same place? Lol
 
Also I guess they let someone at this office start making the ordering decisions so things have been rapidly trending upward. There’s only like 20-30 people here so we can probably get away with a lot more.
 
06deacon said:
And yeah not only do I have the green can Parmesan in my fridge but it’s store brand. Sorry not sorry.

It’s not really for me anyway, you think I’m gonna waste top tier cheese on my kids?
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I cook with the good parm, but Kraft Parmesan in the can is key on some jar sauce spaghetti
 
we still have the Kraft can, which when I make weeknight spaghetti it fits right in. something about that grainy texture that gets me in the nostalgia feels. now if I'm doing something more ambitious I'm reaching for the good stuff.
 
mako1331 said:
I model my entire existence after this guy.
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we introduced B&tB to our daughters this weekend and found i ha forgotten this gem from the Reprise:

No one plots like Gaston
Gaston: Takes cheap shots like Gaston
LeFou: Plans to persecute harmless crackpots like Gaston!
 
DeacsATS said:
I had bought a ton of cassettes back in the day.

But in terms of an actual CD?

I vividly remember getting a 5 disc changer for Christmas sometime around middle school... The 2 CDs I asked for with it were: The Jimi Hendrix Experience & Paul Simon - Graceland.

I was big into hip-hop in those days, so I'm not sure why those were my selections. This was in the early 90s, so it isn't like "Graceland" was a hot new release.
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i owned approximately 400 cassettes, at least half of which came from signing up for columbia house "12 cassettes for 1 penny" promotions; the other half were from the ridiculous number of cassettes that they sent after that and charged me $16.99 each plus $7.99 shipping.

WRS said:
How many of y’all had one of those 3 piece stereos with the CD changer? I thought I was on top of the absolute fucking world when I got one of those.
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BiffTannen said:
I had "components": Akia receiver, Technics turntable, Akia tape deck, JVC CD player, Pioneer speakers. I might have had an extra tape deck for duping cassettes.

Took it all to Wake freshman year, except the turntable, and got some Polk Audio bookshelf speakers that are bigger than any current speakers in my household.
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high school diggs got a job so that I could buy stereo components: some small speakers, a kenwood receiver, sony CD, and i think JVC cassette player. like biff, i carted that shit to/from college for years. kids now take what used to fill my back seat (tv as well) on their damn phone.
 
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