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in 1999 you had the ability to get into a music shop, load the cd and test listen to it. Or just go through the music charts. Or wish for a specific song on radio.
Also 1999 already had Napster, Morpheus and others.
I'm old enough to know the pencil trick to fix a cassette that got eaten by the stereo....
I also learned how to do this as a child but I am probably a bit younger than you at 18yo.
"Old or poor..."
It was less that we were poor and more that my parents had a lot of music and radio dramas on different media. My father still has more than two hundred vinyl disks that he plays semiregularly and I have an old audio tape player/recorder sitting around in my bedroom although I don't really use that one.
Just having a joke, glad to hear people committed to the old media