Response to my video and collection has been incredible -- Thank You! Please listen to the following Robot Overlordz podcast to hear an objective discussion around this viral event: \r<br>\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>\r<br>OK, I have to admit this this is a strange collection. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved these tapes from the trash during this period and this video shows you my extensive, odd collection.\r<br>\r<br>Until around 1992, the cassettes were rotated monthly. Then, they were replaced weekly. Finally sometime around 1993, satellite programming was intoduced which eliminated the need for these tapes altogether.\r<br>\r<br>The older tapes contain canned elevator music with instrumental renditions of songs. Then, the songs became completely mainstream around 1991. All of them have advertisements every few songs.\r<br>\r<br>The monthly tapes are very, very, worn and rippled. Thats becuase they ran for 14 hours a day, 7 days a week on auto-reverse. If you do the math assuming that each tape is 30 minutes per side, thats over 800 passes over a tape head each month.\r<br>\r<br>Finally, one tape in the collection was from the Kmart 30th anniversary celebration on 3/1/92. This was a special day at the store where employees spent all night setting up for special promotions and extra excitement. It was a real fun day, the store was packed wall to wall, and I recall that the stores were asked to play the music at a much higher volume. The tape contains oldies and all sorts of fun fs from 1962. This may have been one of the last days where Kmart was in their heyday - really!\r<br>\r<br>One last thing for you techies, the stores built in the early 1970s (such as Naperville, IL Ogden Mall Kmart #3066, Harwood Heights, IL #3503 and Bridgeview, IL #4381) orignally had Altec-Lansing amplifiers with high quality speakers throughout the store. When you applied a higher quality sounding source, the audio was extremely good. Later stores had cheaper speakers and eventually the amps were switched out with different ones usually lacking bass and treble controls.\r<br>\r<br>The whole collection has been digitized and can be found at
