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Renting 3 movies a month on Amazon has no subscription fee and is at least as cheap as the old days of going to the local video store

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Yeah I tire of this annoying nostalgia.

I remember how expensive it was to rent things from Videoland. I remember how expensive it was to buy box sets of TV shows at Free Record Shop. Trust me Netflix is still a million times better.

I remember my friends and I getting stoned in high school and renting every Disney cartoon feature film. Since they were old releases they cost us $1 each. I think we spent $13 in total. We spent more on the pot and candy.

When were you in high school? Blockbuster cut prices near the end as it was dying to try to compete with Netflix and Redbox.

1995ish

My local store was £2.50 a night in the early 1990s. That’s £6 a night today. By the late 90s it was £3.50, about £7.50 a night today.

Except that most stuff I’d want to watch isn’t available on $streaming_service, and often enough on none of them.

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