Remember when Cindy Brady said that by the time she got the attic room, it would be the year 2000? It seemed so far away.

This is gold 😂😂

The lyrics were so tiny!

Who remembers when reading text that size wasn't a problem? :)

Damn I miss these. Now I gotta google them and God forbid there other songs with the same name to sift thru.

Both cassettes and CDs. Even better I can *still* read them without glasses. Just don't ask me what's on the other side of the room!

and there was a particular smell.....i loved that smell

Always bugged me when there were discrepancies between the printed lyrics and what they actually sang!

..and being disappointed that you'd gotten some of them wrong

And the acknowledgement part! hoping they're friends with other favorite bands or people... :D

My all time favorite was the liner notes for Weird Al's "Albuquerque", which had about a paragraph of lyrics and then just switched to something like "You know what, this is a REALLY long song with a lot of words, we don't have room to write it all down so just try to listen to it yourself really closely and do your best"

I'm an '88 millennial and remember reading tiny lyrics in the booklets of CDs. Similar enough, or.... does that not count? ^_^;

I didnt need reading glasses then lol

The LP liners were much better. (Hobbles away on his walker)

Still love reading the lyrics

Who remembers when Cassette had two t's instead of just the one? I still have cassettes like this, I just dont know which box they are in :)

Back when i could read that sized font...

Yep. CDs too.

I preferred LPs for the easier readability and I could dub from tape - cassette. At least until tape players with two slots became popular (and later owning a car).

It sucked. That's why we bought CDs and LPs.

I remember Madonna’s Like a Prayer cassette foldout smelled like perfume/cologne. Always wondered about that.

And those clear cassettes that vaguely smelled like fake fruit.

I remember one that I lost about a day after I bought the tape. I was mad at myself for years. (This was before you could google all the lyrics.)

I remember the smell of it. I loved the smell of new tape.

Who remembers rolling doobies in their double album covers?

I remember reading them from the 8-page booklet inside a double album jacket.

Yes!!!!!

And squinting feverishly while pushing your glasses up your nose? Yes, yes I do.

IF lyrics were printed. Not every band released the lyrics.

I was thrilled when they had that cause then I could get the lyrics right.

The smell of a new cassette tape!

First thing I did was SMELL the paper.

And we didn't need glasses then!

I can relate.

I also did minidisk for a while somewhere between tape and mp3. Oh, and now records are making a comeback -_-'

And that's why we are cynical. 😉

TIL the dog wasn't called Boo-boo like the little bear in Yogi Bear. DOH!

All the brown was leftover from the '70's.

And hence our cryptic screen names.

Ah yes, ibuprofen...the candy of the old.

Saved by the Bell set vs Home aka What we wanted vs What we got!!!