I saved 15% by not tipping the jukebox.
You call that noise music. Everyone knows real music died with the last of the megaphone crooners.
We used to dream of cooking in a refrigerator box. Lucky bastard!
When I was but a wee lad $1 would buy your meal AND several songs…
That you’re in the bar indicates that you don’t mind overpaying a bit for short-term entertainment. Food and alcohol are available (many times much cheaper) elsewhere. Why would you eat/drink at a bar then complain about other overpriced short-term entertainment?
Well, in that case, you alternated between “The End” and “When the Music’s Over”, back and forth ad nauseum. 
No, I think you just get each song once then. The programming assumption is that if the same song is punched in more than once, those are different people and playing the tune once delivers to everybody who’s paid for it up to that moment. To hear it again, you need to pay for and request it again after it’s played.
While I’m not going to agree with the OP that the price of modern jukeboxes is a rip-off, the scenario you and Jackknifed Juggurnaut describe is. If the program is smart enough to identify that situation, it’s also smart enough to ask if you want to play the same song again or plug in a different tune. Or dump a metric shitload of quarters into the coin return.
The OP should visit a Johnny Rockets. Old-fashioned tabletop jukebox selectors, only one nickle per song.
They charge extra for non radio tracks to keep people from trying to be all “unique” and show off by letting everyone know that they only listen to deep cuts from popular CDs. Not the radio tracks. If you want to show your hipster side it’s gonna cost you because the rest of the bar doesn’t want to listen to your deep cuts you hip motherfucker.
On the other hand, the jukebox is continuously making money AND your customers are happy (hey, cheap music!), meaning they might stay longer and spend more on food and drinks.
Unless they are the OP, in which case you need to remember that there is nothing to gain by pleasing the tightwads.
Now let me get this straight. Someone had mistakenly left 7 unused credits on the machine, which you cheerfully used, but your still whining about paying $1.00 per song??? How is that a bad deal for you?
Or is it that the bartender put 7 credits in to lure you, yet somehow despite the shitty selection in music, you managed to not only use them up, but wasted more money putting in songs? The story doesn’t compute.
12 credits for $5 is a pretty fair deal, based on inflation, btw.
The only common ground I will find with you is I think paying extra to bump someones song is a bad idea. Great way to start a bar fight.
And yeah, the songs that are 12 for 5 sheckels usually are the shitty hit songs, and to dig deeper into the album you have to pay extra. I also find that annoying, however, I can also tell you I’ve paid extra for songs by artists that you would never find on any jukebox, so to me these Internet jukers are a wash.
This is what happens and it is a rip-off. It’s especially unfair because these jukeboxes intentionally don’t show you the number of songs that are already lined up and they don’t show the song titles already requested. There could be 50 songs lined up, and if you don’t want to pay the extra credits to hear your song next, you could be waiting for hours. At least in good faith, they should alert you when a song you request is already lined up. Instead they gladly take the money for providing nothing.
In some cases, such as a commuter bar or “meeting place”-type bar (where people may gather for pre-gaming or waiting for a train), jukebox users never hear the songs that they played, and are stuck listening to the playlists of patrons that already left hours ago.
OTOH, playing the same song (or 2 songs) repetitively can be pretty irritating to the other patrons, who might decide to move on to someplace less annoying. Preventing someone from playing their favorite song over and over again is a good thing. The last thing I want after settling into my seat, sipping my whisky and watching the game, is to be forced to listen to “Fireflies” over and over.
I worked at a pub in the 80s, and we always showed it was time to go with to “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” - the favorite sing-a-long song of our regulars. To get to it, I would go back to the controller for the juke and start hitting the reject button (there in case of a scratch on the CD) until Sir Meatloaf came on the speakers. This was at end of night (11:25 PM - close was 11:30), so nobody to piss off. We listened to the rest of the queue as we cleaned up the pub.
Another favorite bar of mine back in the states removed our favorite sing-a-long (Take Me Home Country Roads by John Denver). The owner got tired of us singing along to it after a few pitchers.
This sounds a lot like Socialism to me. Damn librul bastards!
Even better, all the songs are from 1982 or earlier. 
Never mind the songs… how could you tell I was high?
Because you kept on getting more baskets of fries, and talking about how GOOOOOOOOOOODDDDD they were. Then you spent 10 minutes trying to fit a Monopoly $20 into the machine so that you could call up the entire Bob Marley catalogue while eating your fries. That you forgot about. That you then remembered were so GOOOOOOOOODDDD.
The OP title wasn’t a reference to you. It was a reference to a line in one of the songs by one of the OP’s favorite bands, AC/DC. You know, All Lit Up 