How about "lacked a VHS player altogether" lmao. My movie ingestion growing up was basically 100% up to the whims of random people, strange way to do it.

Really dig the scrappy approach y'all used tho, that's the good stuff. Being broke taught me a lotta the most important stuff TBH.

Bootleg that was taped in a movie theatre and then rented from the guy down the street that had a room in his house set up with shelves and a shit ton of movies. And/or the collection that was left from the last people that lived in your house. Along with their furniture. My movie was LA Story. The good old days in Saudi Arabia.