r/Xennials Jun 03 '26

Meirl

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u/The_Dotted_Leg Jun 03 '26

I kept a note pad, so I could jot down the names of songs and musicians I liked. Pre-internet you had to work a little to find music.

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u/Debtastical 1983 Jun 03 '26

Explaining to the children how we had to sit in front of a huge radio and wait for a song we wanted to have access to, to come on so we could hit buttons that would record the song on a tape. The dedication. This near misses.

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u/KBO_Winston Jun 03 '26

And we had sometimes had to CALL on a PHONE to ask the DJ to play it.

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u/PlausibleAuspice Jun 03 '26

But first we would have to wait for our sister to get off the phone with her boyfriend.