The best thing you've ever bought ON CASSETTE from a gas/petrol station

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Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
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Snap-World Power
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― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

Some Howlin' Wolf comp, long since lost.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

so so def bass all-stars and something called hardcore 4 the headstrong (this was ohio circa '00...it was a sign from god).

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:48 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-81702-001.jpg Tracklisting: 1 Shaft (2) Roobarb & Custard (Dr. Trip & Bob Bolts Mix) (5:41) 2 Convert Nightbird (12" Version) (5:06) 3 Human Resource Dominator (Joey Beltram Remix) (4:35) Remix - Joey Beltram 4 Prodigy, The G.Force (5:23) 5 Cuba Gooding Happiness Is Just Around The Bend (Altern 8 Remix) (4:34) Remix - Altern 8 6 East Side Beat Ride Like The Wind (Factory Mix) (5:48) 7 Isotonik Different Strokes (6:13) 8 Soundsource Take Me Up (Luv Dup Mix) (6:32) Remix - LuvDup 9 DJ Seduction Hardcore Heaven (5:28) 10 Orbital Chime (Ray Keith Mutation) (6:17) Remix - Ray Keith

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

Cuba Gooding???

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

bob seger, night moves

― miss michael learned (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

That's really good. The one and only dominator.

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

A George Carlin album, I forget which one

― telephone thing, Friday, 6 January 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Some of Bill Cosby's lesser later albums

― kingfish pibb Xtra (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 6 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Best of Merle Haggard. $5.99 well spent.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

A Steppenwolf-Best Of comp (I believe it had a hot pink cover).

― patita (patita), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

knack best-of comp

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Steely Dan "Katy Lied"

― marathonpacks, Friday, 6 January 2006 23:34 (twenty years ago)

depeche mode, speak & spell. $3.99 in maryland.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

my brother bought that "only for the headstrong" thing for like...less than a dollar, but it wasn't at a gas station. i don't think we have it anymore.

― Christopher Costello (CGC), Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

twin peaks television series soundtrack

― lf, Saturday, 7 January 2006 00:59 (twenty years ago)

A Roy Orbison comp with a cover ugly enough to scare roaches.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:03 (twenty years ago)

i missed out on this

i imagine people stopping at leicester forest east to buy copies of chris rea ' tennis'.

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:05 (twenty years ago)

this might not count, but i once found a homemade RUSH mix cassette on a greyhound bus featuring "working man," which ROCKS.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Saturday, 7 January 2006 01:28 (twenty years ago)

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― matt2 (matt2), Saturday, 7 January 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

If airports count:

Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Kelis - Kaleidoscope

― djangojones (djangojones), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

tag team - whoop there it is

― Stephen C (ihope), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

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― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

United Staes of America, for 99 cents. Okay, it wasn't a gas station (it was a small, old-fashioned department store in Frostburg, Maryland) but still hella cool.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:41 (twenty years ago)

For $4.99 Black Sabbath's We Sold Our Soul For Rock 'n' Roll accompanied me in a moving van from North Carolina to Tennessee. No matter how shitty the speakers, Sabbath always sounds good.

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

If charity shops count (and it was expressly for the car journey back to London) then The Bee Gees' first album, for 75p from a shop in Liscard, Wallasey.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

memphis yielded this.

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(i do not consider this an endorsement of gas station cassettes in any way)

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Cruisin' Classics, a bunch of surf music. Had a Shell logo on the cover iirc.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I bought a double album of 60s girl-pop and schmaltz (sample tracks "Chapel of Love", "Tell Laura I Love Her" "Be My Baby"). It may well have been called Cruisin' Classics as well. It was utterly brilliant, very cheap, and I have no idea where it is now.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 9 January 2006 22:20 (twenty years ago)

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