The year was 1999 and I wanted to buy a new album that had dropped recently. Now keep in mind, in the late Spring of 1999, there was no Spotify or Apple Music or any kind of way to “stream” an album. iTunes hadn’t even come out yet… Napster was about to drop but nobody even knew what a Napster was or what it would eventually be. So if you wanted to buy an album, you were hitting up your favorite record store to see if they had it.
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While we were only 12 or 13, we wanted to make money so we can buy shiny things like baseball cards, comic books, or maybe even a nudie mag. We had graduated from stealing chromed out shiners (tire valve caps) off of expensive cars for our BMX bikes and were now trying to see that cash money.
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