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Indeed, and same with Midnights.markjazzbassist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 12:40 pmjagged little pill didn't sell 33 mil vinyl though, it sold 33mil worldwide. a conglomeration of cd, vinyl, cassette, minidisc, digital, etc.
Agree totally. Some may listen once or twice then go back to streaming. Others put it on their USB turntable and convert it to MP3 because, you know, that analog sound....
digitaldrummer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:55 pmIn fact I'm confident that many of them (like myself and all my friends) immediately recorded it to a cassette so they could listen in the car too (or boombox, walkman... yikes! or whatever). So yeah, many of my albums also only got played once or twice.
they recently sold the collection and bought a small island i heard. prices are very high, and keep getting higher. it's a collectable.vvv wrote: ↑Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:48 pmdigitaldrummer wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 12:55 pmIn fact I'm confident that many of them (like myself and all my friends) immediately recorded it to a cassette so they could listen in the car too (or boombox, walkman... yikes! or whatever). So yeah, many of my albums also only got played once or twice.
When I was at uni I had this pair of friends - they were roomates - who, like many of us, spent their spare dosh on beer, pizza, weed and albums. These guys would buy a cuppla-3 albums a week and then play them once, only to make a cassette transfer. They did it to "preserve" the vinyl.
The weird thing was, they were both kinda punk dudes, turning me on to Joy Division, The Ruts UK, The Vibrators and The Damned while sharing my love of the Pistols and The Clash. They also turned me on to power-pop like Shoes, Brams Tchaikovsky, Ian Gomm, Nick Lowe, Code Blue, etc.
"Stunning" Steve and Paul, you out there?
I, myself have hadda whole lotta vinyl in boxes in my garage for the last 20 years, over 1K ...
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