Question about music at college campuses

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Did the student commons at your college have a jukebox? If so, were the music selections pre-programmed -- that is, if you put money in the machine, you couldn't choose the songs you wanted to hear?

I've come across a mid-seventies magazine article claiming such beasties were the norm on the typical American college campus, but I kinda have a hard time imagining this, plus the guy writing it was about sixty years old at the time. Then again, I went to a tiny college in the early nineties, so what would I know?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 8 October 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jukebox, yes. Preprogrammed, no, although I think it played on random when no one was putting money in?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 8 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ours (University of Missouri-Columbia, early 21st century) had no jukebox. Only a CD player hooked up to speakers behind a counter that could seemingly only play Ben Folds and Jack Johnson.

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Mine didn't have a jukebox, but once a week or so the college radio station would do a show onsite. Honestly though, it was so loud there I don't think anyone noticed either way.

― musically (musically), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

the one at my undergrad school -- hell no. i think they might have had some speakers that worked intermittently and only piped in the student radio station.

the one at my grad school does not.

― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 8 October 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

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