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I remember being in college and my roommate and I bought a massive, like 200 lb 50 inch CRT TV from the thrift shop a few blocks away for $30. Neither of us had a car so we spent the next two hours limping that thing back to the dorm on foot. Installed it in the living room and played PS3 on it for two years.
This was barely more than ten years ago. Nowadays I want to get a CRT for retro gaming. You're spending $200 for trash or up to $500 for something decent.
I had a similar experience. A friend and I bought one of those CRT's that had a giant wood enclosure with its own speaker and was designed to sit on the ground ... Only to, on completing the purchase and exiting the closing shop, discover it would not fit in my car.
Fortunately, an older guy happened to be exiting the store at the same time ... And more importantly, getting into his large and empty pick-up. We stopped him and basically begged him to transport the TV for us, which eventually he hesitantly did. (We lived nearby the store but not close enough that carrying the TV was realistic.) I rode in the truck with him and the TV because it seemed logical to ride with my new purchase and to give him directions. My friend drove my car home because he didn't want to ride with a stranger.
This was long enough ago that there weren't any kind of ride hiring apps. At that point I'd never ridden in a taxi or anything so I don't know if you could have requested one large enough to transport a giant TV. If the guy hadn't been there or had been unwilling to help us, I guess we would have had to hide the TV in the bushes or something and come back for it later.
Like you, I kept that TV for a long time. I think I mainly played Xbox and GameCube on it, though.