Want to revisit the musical glory days of Kmart? Now you can.

My mom used to take us to Kmart all the time, usually after music lessons. We’d stop in to buy supplies, which included some of the wretched mock chicken loaf from the deli. That would be my school lunch for the next week.

Beyond that, I remember a couple of things about our regular store. The sporting goods section was in the far right in the back. They usually had a good selection of hockey sticks. The record section was somewhere along the centre aisle, near the rotating stands of paperback books. The Blue Light Special cart could show up anywhere. And I remember the music pumped through the story. It was awful.

Kmart corporate was very particular about what music was to be played in its stores. Each month, special cassettes were sent out with instructions to keep the shoppers entertained by never letting the music stop.

Mark Davis was a Kmart employee in Naperville IL. Because he was in charge of the service desk, the changing and playing of the cassettes was his job. A normal person probably threw out all the old ones, but not Mark. He kept them all.

Now Mark is allowing us to relive the days of the Blue Light Special because he uploaded all those Kmart tapes to the Internet Archive. God bless him.

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(Via Jon and The Nerdist.)