how did people afford music back then

Cost of living hadnt increased to what it is today. Too many corporations pay bare minimum which isnt enough to sustain the average person

You mean prior to the 'recording era', as in during medieval times or?

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some did, others made copies for their friends with tapes or stole them from the store

>>74019968
Notice how radio was much more popular back then
Also, this >>74019992 and >>74019984

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people also made tapes of what played on the radio

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MTV played music videos too and people could just put that on and get a fix. There was less buying of music for the average person. People didn't have a cell phone with songs. And no downloading and obnoxious asshole sites like this.

>>74019968
back in those days. you can walk into a place and ask them for a job. then they gave it to you.
no need for long ass applications that end up going nowhere.

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you would get a tape for your birthday or christmas, every household had certain shit like michael jackson. rap music sold insanely but nobody admitted to owning it. shit was totally different. the nation was richer. we're all poor now and don't know it and steal everything and pretend to be rich.

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so fuck you all, i'm going back. 88 miles per hour. suck my dick. boomboxes and hairy pussy here i come

>>74020114
this. people cared about TV and radio and requested songs back then

>>74020185
>rap music sold insanely
aside from NWA, rap didn't start moving huge units until eminem

>>74020336
not true. geto boys, too short sold millions. you don't know what you're talking about.

anyway - hammer, public enemy, ll cool j, 2pac, dre, wu, snoop all before eminem