The Columbia House Music Club Was A Trap

The following is a small unedited excerpt from an unpublished memoir that I am currently writing. All text ©2016 Jim Younkin. Keep an eye out for the book sometime in the future.



A particular event that had a large influence on my cultural growth happened at this time: The Columbia House Music Club.



If you've never been in the Columbia House Music Club let me tell you a bit about it.

Cassette Tapes Were Serious Business

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The following is a small excerpt from an unpublished memoir that I am currently writing. All text ©2016 Jim Younkin. Keep an eye out for the book sometime in the future.



Do you know what a pencil and a cassette tape have in common? Do you know what a cassette tape even is? Your answers the preceding questions will largely depend on when you were born.



I was born in 1977. The following is a reminder of the struggle all of us who grew up in the 80s had to go through to have our music.



I remember first starting my relationship with music when I was about 7 or 8 years old. I had a small radio cassette tape player and I remember listening to the radio at night and recording songs off the radio onto cassette tapes.