Oldies.com connects music lovers to their favorite recordings
By Michele Harris
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE
Pop Quiz!
Red Hot Chili Peppers and Black Eyed Peas are:
A: Ingredients for one of Rachael Ray’s 30 Minute Meals
B: Foods to avoid if you suffer from acid reflux
C: Two of the biggest bands in pop music today
If you answered C, pat yourself on the back, you know pop music. If you didn’t, you may be among the millions of adults who feel abandoned by the music industry.
Gone are the days when you could mosey into the corner record store, buy the catchy tune you heard on the radio, put it on your turntable at home, and sit back and enjoy. Like everything else today, buying music is a complicated endeavor, one that overwhelmingly caters to teenagers. You can brave the bone-rattling rhythm pumping through most music stores to search for your favorite album or you can download songs off your computer and put them on an MP3 player or iPod—assuming you actually have a computer and an iPod.
Once you negotiate all that, there’s no guarantee you’re going to find what you want. Locating Justin Timberlake’s latest hit is easy, but if you’re in search of Carl Perkins’ first recording of “Blue Suede Shoes,” there’s a good chance it’s not at the mall music store. You could probably find it on Apple’s iTunes, but opening the package, enjoying the cover art, and reading the liner notes are such an integral part of the experience that downloading an invisible file just can’t replace it.
Every song in the original order
When you absolutely must have “Rama Lama Ding Dong” by The Edsels, where can you turn? Oldies.com (you can also order from their catalog, Discount Oldies, by calling 1-800-336-4627). With over 2,500 active titles on CD and thousands more available on good old-fashioned vinyl, you’re bound to find what you’re looking for.