And there will soon be hipsters selling and servicing CD jukeboxes–maybe even old ones that play 45s!–ready to put into trendy bars that want to offers its customers an alternative. The backlash to TouchTunes will grow, eventually. Let’s not end this on a sad note, though. The jukebox is but a small part of a bar’s appeal, but it’s sad to see them all become the same. And while Ken Kweder has CDs, he isn’t on TouchTunes!
#TOUCH TUNES INSTALL#
There are holdouts–McGlinchey’s, Doobie’s and South Philly Tap Room have notably great jukeboxes–but eventually all the CD jukeboxes will break and everyone will probably have to install digital jukeboxes. Every bar’s jukebox is becoming the same.
(David Thorpe wrote that YouTube was “so shockingly complete in its catalogue of illegally uploaded music that it’s like a cheap jukebox that plays every song, ever.”) While I miss Tower Records, the ability to get almost every song instantaneously one way or another is a trade-off I can accept. However the Internet has changed the music industry, the selection of music is much larger and often instantaneous. “The bad thing is you can play just about anything.” Technological progress is usually better. “The good thing about is you can play pretty much anything,” The Bollard quoted a waiter at Portland’s Downtown Lounge. No matter how much work was put into choosing a bar’s jukebox music, it was a selection. That personality might be a carefully chosen selection of albums that received a perfect 10.0 from Pitchfork or whatever CDs were left in the machine when it was purchased from TNT Amusements. Whether it’s 45s or CDs, a jukebox with a limited selection of songs reflects a bar’s personality. And since TouchTunes is more expensive than a regular jukebox–and its option to pay more to play a song next is an attractive impulse buy for a drunk person–the bars usually end up making more money.īut I reject the whole premise of a TouchTunes jukebox. When a bar’s CD jukebox goes–the Oscar’s one hadn’t been working consistently for a while–the only option is often TouchTunes. iPods replaced Discmans, and digital jukeboxes replaced CD jukeboxes. (Obviously.) A thorough, entertaining 2009 article in The Bollard of Portland, Maine, on the explosion of TouchTunes jukeboxes in bars explained that bars don’t usually have a choice. The placemats returned, and everything seemed to be back to normal.īut then the jukebox was replaced with TouchTunes. It wasn’t as terrifying as if our favorite waitress, Dee, left, but we didn’t know what to do. (Except for McGillin’s, which will be serving former frat boys until the end of time.)Ī little bit ago Oscar’s temporarily replaced its cocktail recipe placemats and replaced them with plain white ones. When you’re a regular at any place you fear change-the service gets worse, the bar changes its food or drops a staple beer. I wrote that our Friday happy hour was “the usual” over two years ago, so it’s been a while.
This has been going on for so long I’m not actually sure when we started doing this. A few hours later, we happily stumble out, the woes of the week disappearing under the weight of whiskey shots, 23-ounce Yuengling Lagers and one-and-a-half cheesesteak specials.
Drained from the work week, my friends and I leave our offices and angrily stumble to Oscar’s Tavern every Friday. If you purchased credits to play a song through TouchTunes’ mobile App, only to have your jam skipped between and Oct. 31, 2012, and you did not receive a refund, TouchTunes will reimburse one credit to the mobile app, according to a class action lawsuit settlement proposition.My friends and I go to the same bar for happy hour, like we’re sitcom characters. 2įood: Our (and your) favorite takeout food for the Super Bowl
Well, now there's something you can do.Ī class action lawsuit has been filed for those who have paid credits for a song on TouchTunes brand jukeboxes only to have it skipped by someone with a branded remote.ĭeals: Get Discounted Tickets To Music FestivalsĮntertainment: Whiskey Fest coming back to Jersey City on Feb. So when your favorite song gets skipped, you might wind up pretty irritated. Maybe you don't put a quarter in the machine anymore more likely it's a microtransaction on a smartphone, but the anticipation of waiting for your song to play hasn't gone away. Many bars in North Jersey have them - the large, colorful touchscreen jukeboxes that blast out everything from Top 50 tunes, to country, to 90s hip-hop.
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