Sometime ago I acquired the following ET/VideoLink Wet Seal promo music laserdiscs from Ebay:
http://www.lddb.com/search.php?search=w ... sort=title



Whilst on the surface there is nothing particularly unusual about promo music laserdiscs (I own hundreds of them) these Wet Seal LDs seem a little different from the others.

First they have no chapters breaks on any of the discs - these are the only promo music LDs that I've ever seen were like this as all the other ETV discs in the series (Oldies, Dance, Hot, Store & Country) have chapter breaks. I can understand why they maybe didn't bother as these were probably destined to only be played back on satellite broadcasts but it is a little odd still given none of the others omitted the chapter breaks.

These are all single sided LDs however they featuring 16-17 videos which is more than the other ETV discs. The tracks themselves are also extremely varied and quite unusual. By way of example one discs contains bands like Urge Overkill, The Doors, Elastica, The Byrds, Sister Sledge, Nancy Sinatra, The Beatles, Gin Blossoms & the Bee Gees just to quote a few. Another disc contains artists like Fiona Apple, Savage Garden, Shawn Colvin, DC Talk, Blur & Morcheeba alongside Wild Cherry (the 70's funk band), Spice Girls, Depeche Mode and Village People! If that isn't varied enough for you then another disc includes The Fugees, Beck, The Lemonheads, No Doubt, Stone Temple Pilots, mixed with Blondie, The Clash, New Order, Tom Petty and James Brown!

Other than the fact there are no chapter breaks I really like these discs as they are just so dam varied!
Does anyone else have any of these Wet Seal ETV LDs and also what is the significance of the 'Wet Seal'?

I know this is an old post... but if you didn't get an answer, Steve Gaspar (former ETV president) might know. I bought some stuff from him on eBay, username is "socatrading."

I was recently contacted by someone who had found this long lost post I made about Wet Seal laserdiscs many years ago.
They mentioned they had first hand experience of working for Wet Seal which was a US clothing store and remember playing these music laserdiscs in store.
They were interested in getting the track listings for the songs to jog their memory so I sent them pictures of the sleeves as i hadn't got round to entering the tracks yet.
I have since updated all the entries on LDDB.com for the discs I own with the tracks which should be visible once approved.

https://www.lddb.com/search.php?search=wet+seal&sort=title

They also provided the following info:

If you were a teen or in your 20s in the late 90s and early 2000s, you may have spent your weekends in the mall looking for the perfect outfit to go out – or better yet to go “out-out”, as we used to say. Even before we were allowed into bars and clubs, we would get dressed up and walk through the streets of places like Ybor City, Bourbon Street, Coconut Grove and Broadway in Nashville. When we finally secured some decent fake IDs or made connections to get in, we were ready.

The soundtrack to this time period can be found on these laserdiscs from Wet Seal. Some of the stores had giant video walls behind the cash registers where you could watch the videos while you were in line. The laserdiscs were curated by the corporate office and sent to the stores to play. The playlists are eclectic. There would be current music, mixed in with classics – think The Lemonheads and The Clash on the same discs. The employees had the autonomy to play older laserdiscs. Each laserdisc is about an hour long and we would listen on repeat. Changing to a new laserdisc was often the energy burst that we needed to get through a shift.

For more information about Wet Seal, check out the Wikipedia page.