Aspie's collect the darnedest things

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In the days before the internet you could only find weird collections in freak shows, museums, and our homes.

For example the music played Kmart stores in the 80's and 90's is now available surely thanks to one of our kind.

http://www.chartattack.com/news/2015/10 ... und-music/

I enjoyed watching the collection showoff video.
I can sense some magic in his collection.
And he seems to have some other intersting videos on his channel.

Not the esoteric kind of magic, what I mean is I can understand why he collects the tapes.

I've watched another kmart video from his channel and I find the phrase "...and you'll never have to leave our store" rather creepy lol.

I'd like to toy with them to extract the hidden subliminal messages therein

This is an interesting collection. Some of the music, especially the elevator music in the earlier pre-1991 cassettes, are very rare and hard to find. The small K-Mart ad spots are about as one-of-a-kind as it gets nowadays. This was around their peak profitability days.

I wonder who else here has a recording of "the sounds of mental illness" in their collection of random stuff?

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As there were no WalMarts where I lived during those years, I bet I've heard every track on those tapes as K Mart was my main shopping place back then. My favourite spot on the overheads was "make your tracks in Trax", referring to their own brand of sneakers, of which I bought several pairs of in those days.

That's not a bad looking shoe actually.

i once collected those little blue circles that you find under soda bottle caps.

i still have a big box of them under my bed.

Anyone remember when there was cork under bottle caps?
I can recall how I used to play with that when I was a little kid.

(Obviously I would line them all up also)

The sounds of mental illness?????????????

That sounds.... unique.

Is that that the band name?Or is it the album name? It must be just an outrageous moniker concocted for a rock band trying hard to be outrageous. Surely you're not talking about an actual recording of residents of a mental hospital?

A have a vinyl LP of actual whale sounds recorded by Woodshole oceanographers in 1959. Found it in the "strange" bin of a used record store. HAD to have it! The voice of a nerdy baritone comes and announces "this is a grumpus maximus, better known as the "pilot whale" recorded 150 miles off of New Jersey. And then you the whale moaning. Then they go on to a narhawl, and then to a finback, and so on...

it was an audio cassette put out by the drug company Phizer, a drug rep handed 'em out at the hospital where I worked. it has some voice actors on it plus sound fx, of what internal monologue or greek chorus of mad voices likely goes on in the mind of a mentally ill/psychotic person. they warn people not to listen to it if they have a history of mental illness and indeed I listened only to a few seconds before I had to switch it off, yank it out of the player, stick it back in its case and chuck it in the back of the drawer. TOXIC STUFF

I have a small collection of WWI and WWII propaganda posters on my laptop, and I have a small collection of 8 or 9 wintergreen Altoids tins that I want to repurpose.

I collect pictures of attractive backsides

Here's something I bet Auntblabby doesn't have in his collection...
The Inner Sounds of the Id:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOSUBxInq8
Have a nice trip.