Years Of In-Store Kmart Cassettes Archived For Some Reason
10.10.15 by Mike Haley

In the 80’s and 90’s the in-store music and commercials pumped through the speakers at Kmart, under the name Kmart Radio (KMRT), were actually cassette tapes played on repeat. New cassettes were shipped to stores every month (eventually weekly) and, like all the other garbage at Kmart, were supposed to be tossed in the trash. For whatever reason, ex-Kmart employee Mark Davis saved 50-some of those cassettes. Mark goes into detail about them in this pretty awesome YouTube Video:

He describes it as a “strange collection”, which is pretty damn accurate. Now, 20 years later, he’s uploaded that strange collection to Archive.org. If you wanna jam some muzak, pharmacy commercials from 1989, or maybe you are simply a fucking weirdo, you can check out all the recordings here.