K-Mart Christmas Soundtrack

A few months ago I made a post about the K-Mart in-store PA archive. I particularly noted fondness for the tapes from Christmastime.

Well here's a reminder that you can let K-Mart supply your holiday background soundtrack. May I suggest December 1990? I mean, 1991 is also available but that's a little too modern for my taste, that's basically the devil's music.

K-Mart Music Archive Online

There is an online archive where you can listen to the tapes played over the K-Mart PA from 1989 to 1993.

It's available here. Can I recommend July 1990? What a fine vintage.

And I should say don't listen to the Christmas tapes yet because you'll sink into a nostalgic depression.

Here's a mystery... Periodically, someone will say, in between songs, "Security, please report to aisle 3" or something to that effect. So why is that recorded on the tape (which is played on a loop)? I can only surmise that K-Mart didn't have security but wanted people to think that they did. That's a good idea, as far as it goes, but when you have the guy with the radio voice doing the announcement (and not the woman who actually works there speaking into a drive-thru quality mic) anyone can figure out that it's a ruse.