are you ever momentarily swayed by an actual info-mercial?

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Cause I've bought two of those as-seen-on-tv compilations in my life, one markedly better than the other. The bad one: Rolling Stone's 25 years of Rock and Roll from Time-Life Music. The music was aiiight, I suppose, and it did have some killer Dylan and Hendrix tunes, but I've since learned that I don't need collections to get those. And then... TONS of Bonnie Raitt, who, judging from Rolling Stone's taste, is the artist of the century. And then the last disc included "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" by the Spin Doctors. Gah. Dud dud dud.

The good one: AM Gold. Sometimes you're just in that Gordon Lightfoot mood, ya know?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 15:15 (twenty-three years ago)

testng. testing. is this thing on?

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 18 April 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Momentarily - until you hear the part about $24.99 + s&H for CD.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 18 April 2003 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, in high school I bought one of those AM Gold ones because they played "Magic" by Pilot on the commercial, so I figured it would be on the CD they sent. It wasn't (probably on the 10th volume or something). So I sent it back and cancelled. And they still made my pay. Last time I ever trusted the television.

― dleone (dleone), Friday, 18 April 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

dleone - You didn't really HAVE to pay them, y'know.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:03 (twenty-three years ago)

It's why God made PO boxes, and gave human minds the ability imagine fake names.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 18 April 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I remember being fascinated by "The Infinite Dress" infomercial, but not tempted to part with any money.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Sunday, 20 April 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

i found the am gold one extremely seductive as well, but i didn't go as far as taking the bait. the stuff on those sort of compilations is always easy to find if you try a little...despite the voiceovers' insistence that it would cost you a fortune and you'd still wind up with old scratchy 'inferior' vinyl.

i would take the bait, though, if they were offering video compilations of the material. it's the video footage in those things that is always so compelling. 'ahhh, so that's what starbuck looks like...'

― Dallas Yertle (Dallas Yertle), Monday, 21 April 2003 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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