For a short time, the shoppes near me had a little white bunny light (really, just a plastic cutout around a small incandescent bulb) that was turned on when the movie was available. You know... so you could follow it inside. It didn't last long, because people complained that the shoppes were supporting porno lol even then, society was stupid.
Before that we kids cruised all over the city, for weeks, trying to find The Lost Boys soundtrack. Nothing but empty cards, nothing behind them, everywhere we went.
I finally scored a CD and started making tapes as fast as I could go.
Calling the local video stores to see if they had a copy of Jurassic Park.
Spoiler alert... they didn't.