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Ronin's avatar

I don’t need the saddle, I need knee pads.

Charles Summers's avatar

Remember the Columbia Record Club? You would order Led Zeppelin and if they were out they would send you a Kai Winding trombone album. Bummed. I didn’t like Herb Alpert but I ordered his album because of the naked chick covered in whip cream on the cover

Chelie's avatar

Lol

DoG's avatar

Ooo yeah, got my 30 cassette tapes for 1 cent!

Album art sold many an album. How about that RATT album cover with that model on the hood of a trans-am?

Thanks for subscribing, Charles, and make it a great weekend!

Charles Summers's avatar

Cassettes were a thing of the future when I was in junior high! When I was first starting to get albums many of them were available in either mono or stereo. Nobody I knew had a record player that would do stereo (or had a color tv).

Chelie's avatar

Now we’ve come full circle with vinyl & turntables connected to Bluetooth.

Charles Summers's avatar

Any thing to make what you already have obsolete. Going back to vinyl, huh? Nothing new under the sun. Maybe I’ll get a chance to drag out my old pastel blue leisure suit! Polyester plaid bell bottoms, black Beetle boots and shoulder wide lapels.

DoG's avatar

was that back when they carved those album players out of stone? :P

Charles Summers's avatar

Pretty much. If you got a good scratch on the record, it would sometimes skip up outta the groove and land back at the same spot on the record and skip-repeat- skip repeat until you got up and moved the needle beyond the scratch. But you could often fix it with a high-tech solution by jumping up outta your seat and stomping down hard with both feet to shake the floor.

Chelie's avatar

😂 nothing says nostalgia like playing vinyl and listening to the crackling sounds from scratches.

James Mead's avatar

Yes indeed, music sales and record shops

Thx DoG