Sam Goody: Counterfeit Tapes & Greedy Sons

Lemme Fix It!

Franchesca Ramsey

Last Name Basis, Let Me Fix It, Society & Culture, Lemme Fix It, Comedy, Tv & Film, Franchesca Ramsey, De'lon Grant

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Sam Goody was one of the biggest music retailers of the 20th century. Selling vinyls, 8-tracks, cassettes tapes, CDs, even the very first MP3 players but they also sold VHS tapes, DVDs, video games, comic books, and posters. This week we dig into how the company went from $60 million in sales during it's peak to closing it's doors in 2012. Then as usual we each pitch how we'd fix the brand for today.

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0:00.0	Fran, so I'm going to get us in trouble for this. I've got a trouble for this before.
0:08.9	I think it was a seafood platter we were having at our friend Jordan's house. So Janet Jackson,
0:16.3	singer or gnaw? You know, I know your answer to this question, and I'm going to say she is a singer,
0:24.1	and I'm going to also add that she's not belting.
0:28.5	She's not giving you powerhouse.
0:29.4	No, she's pioneered whisper singing.
0:31.3	She has pie.
0:32.5	Exactly.
0:34.1	Yeah.
0:34.3	She has, as the girls say, she has many sons.
0:38.8	There's so many people who would not have careers if Janet Jackson had not given us that breathy head voice.
0:47.4	Right.
0:48.2	Yes, a number of people.
0:50.0	Yes, yes, yes.
0:51.5	So I say yes.
0:52.6	Okay.
0:53.2	And your girl, J-Lo.
0:54.8	Ooh, Jay-L, let me just take a second.
0:55.9	Wait, can we just take a second for J-Lo?
1:00.4	I mean, I know we had a whole show on.
1:02.4	She's having a rough time.
1:04.0	Oh, she's having a go.
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