When I were a teenager I used to go to places called "record stores" after school to shop for (usually) 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record albums. I occasionally bought cassette tapes but was appalled by their poor quality.
I didn't purchase a CD until I were 23, though by that time vinyl records were mostly dead and CDs were ubiquitous.
I think my parents had one album of 78s (album in the archaic sense). They had lots of LPs too as did my elder siblings. My father had some cassettes of The Carpenters for some reason, which I thought about when listening to the famous FaiF "Karen Carpenter" episode, wherein @bkuhn described The Carpenters as "easy listening", which I think is a questionable genre description.
I didn't purchase a CD until I were 23, though by that time vinyl records were mostly dead and CDs were ubiquitous.
I think my parents had one album of 78s (album in the archaic sense). They had lots of LPs too as did my elder siblings. My father had some cassettes of The Carpenters for some reason, which I thought about when listening to the famous FaiF "Karen Carpenter" episode, wherein @bkuhn described The Carpenters as "easy listening", which I think is a questionable genre description.