Man uploads complete collection of K-Mart music from 80's-early 90's.
 

http://www.chartattack.com/news/2015...kground-music/
Attention, Kmart shoppers: here's one for the oddity file.

Mark Davis worked behind the Service Desk at the Naperville, IL Kmart in the late '80s and early '90s. Every month, corporate office issued a cassette to be played over the store speaker system — canned elevator-type music with advertisements seeded every few tracks. Around 1991, the muzak was replaced with mainstream hits, and the following year, new tapes began arriving weekly. The cassettes were supposed to be thrown away, but Davis dutifully slipped each tape into his apron pocket to save for posterity. He collected this strange discount department store ephemera until 1993, when background music began being piped in via satellite service.

Nearly 20 years on, David has digitized his whole collection, 56 cassettes in all, and just recently, made the recordings available at archive.org accompanied by some more background on this bizarre treasure trove. For a taste, listen below to the sweet, sweet sounds of October 1989.

I believe I'll pass.

Finally

Thank god someone decided to save these lost treasures.

Kmart is your savings place

Blue light (NOT) special.

You all make jokes, but I've deleted all the music off my iPod and replaced it with this.

ROFL

There is a God.

Attention chiefsplanet shoppers, we have a blue light special in the lame department.

WELL HELL COUNT ME IN

Got any Slim Whitman on those tapes?

So basically Michael Bolton and Kenny G's greatest hits then?

As an ex K-Mart employee... I'll pass.

By my reckoning, we've had that special for about 10 years now.

Will wait for the techno club Kmart remix

If so the Martians will not be happy....

I'll be sure to add this to my online order when I "ship my pants".

Archive.org is amazing.

Some things shouldn't be uploaded.

I think those Kmart tapes qualify.