BBG found a great ad from the 80s for a jukebox that offered “1,000s of songs at your fingertips.” You’d pick your songs, enter your name, and a record store clerk would “pour” and hand over your cassette. You would then wear an oversized dress shirt and jeans and then walk with a swagger as you listen to Foreigner on your Walkman.
Classic stuff.
actually it was like a jukebox that spit out your tape. it was a cool idea, problem was the song selection sucked ass. it was sorta pop top 40. there were only like 4 or 5 songs per artist. unless they were huge groups. the cool thing was having the labels on the tape printed in a pro looking way, and not having to sit there with a dual deck hitting play, pause, rewind, eject, just to make a mix tape. getting a printed out custom sleeve was cool too. i think it was maybe $10 a tape, and i think i still have one somewhere.
Hey that’s pretty cool. Even has an all white background like current apple commercials. A little foreshadowing perhaps?
Still have my Personics tape! Of course the songs on it have already been re-purchased and on my iPod. ;)
I still have my two personics tapes. I thought that was a good idea at the time because even back then, I hated buying albums and CD’s where most of the songs are crappy filler songs.
Too bad I no longer have a cassette tape player.