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This thread is terribly sad. A huge majority of the KLSU employees these days, including myself, would love to have had these old records. Such a shame.
I didn't know about that mainstream 90s crap; thank God we've cleaned that up.

Bummer....sorry to hear that that collection bit the big one. I still have all my LP's and 45's and have lugged them around from Louisiana to California. I might have a few things from the KLSU catalog as we used to purge some of the old stuff and records that didn't really fit our format during the early 80's, but other than that not much else. I continue to try and track down tunes I remember, but then again I lost alot of brain cells during those years. It was well worth it!

I agree completely- I was there in the late 90's and remember the massive collection. I used to read the handwritten reviews and be fascinated. Great stuff and a huge amount of work by some pretty cool people.

I also remember when they decided to get rid of the records. Some afternoon, I showed up and there were people going through them; basically people were welcome to take whatever they wanted. Within a few days, everything was tossed in the dumpster except for the hop hop vinyl. I thought it was a huge shame but for whatever reason the stuff was never going to be played on the air, so I hope most of it wound up in the hands of people who would appreciate it... and the handwritten reviews.

Sorry to hear the rest of you are so embarassed by what we were doing in the late 90's. Don't assume we weren't frustrated too... way too many songs on heavy rotation for starters. I remember a period of about a month when you'd come in for your shift and be guaranteed you'd play Intergallactic by the Beastie Boys because we literally played it every 3 hours.

Who, working there then, didn't have a few KLSU cd's in their stacks? We all had discs with the little white label taped on the upper portion with a code such as "BE65" or some such. And the other poster is dead on with the guess many were sold to used music stores. It actually became a big enough deal that they had to call these used music stores and beg them to help crack down on this. Not sure if anyone was ever caught.

After cogitating on this for a while, I seem to remember that part of the rationale for tossing all the old albums was that we were getting bounced from that large back room in Hodges and Tiger TV was getting that space. The KLSU control room was moved across the hall into what had been the Tiger TV offices when they computerized the station, and Tiger TV moved down the hall. However all of this moving took place a good year and a half after the albums were pitched, and it still doesn't answer why they had to be tossed in the trash instead of at least being digitized.