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Topic History of: The Official Singles Chart - what should its future be?
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Rich |
Yesterday I went into my local hospice charity shop for the first time for a browse and upstairs they had a library section of old VHS tapes, DVD's, hardback and paperback books. But what caught my eye was all the vinyl albums and especially a box of singles which I pulled off the shelf and sat down with flicking through ebery single one of them, possibly 300 records. I was impressed with the quality of the music and some of these singles were classic hits from the 60's to 80's. I could have bought up half of them. Most were going for 50p.
There was one single that caught my eye right at the front of the box because we have it in our own collection at home already and I recognised the cover immediately. It was The Crowd's version of You'll Never Walk Alone, a No1 hit in June 1985 for a couple of weeks in the wake of the Bradford Fire the previous month. Certainly not the greatest cover you'll ever hear and just another predictable charity ensemble that jumped on the immediate post Band Aid bandwagon. But while all the others singles were going at 50p or less, The Crowd single was clearly marked up with the hospice shops own label as going for £2.00. Two whole pounds! Now even in 1985 that single on release wasn't getting bought for as much as a couple of quid as far as I can tell. I don't recall buying singles in the mid 80s for two pounds a go.
Any idea's why a 39 year old vinyl charity single like that would be in a charity shop selling for more than it did in 1985 brand new when I think singles were about £1.20p to £1.40p at that time. |
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Vince Williams |
You can tell this post was written by industry figures.
It is well known that the industry HATES physical releases, they cost money to make and deliver to retailers. The industry just wants us to stream music at minimal cost to themselves.
That's why one of the stupid options here is to ban physical releases from the charts, then hopefully the industry will no longer make them and they will be happy.
But I am one of the many, many people who listen to physical music only, streaming is for listening to kiddies music.
If you get rid of physical releases then that's the end of me buying new albums or singles. To be honest I have enough to play now so don't really need any new music.
I mean with the advent of AI making muzak for people then the industry will also no longer need pesky artists either let alone physical music. Win win for them!
Music had a good run I guess but industry people nowadays no longer realise what they had and will stream any old shit nowadays.
Ah well. |
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Green Man |
Rich wrote:
A friend of my parents actually did something a few years ago that now seems like a dreadful act of self vandalism and scarcely seems believable. I still cannot believe he did it. Wanting rid of all his vinyl music he recorded it all onto blank cassette tapes and then binned all the records. That to me is certifiable, and he soon came to realise what a fool he had been not long afterwards.
People did that to CD's in the 2000s, they backed them all up to laptop/computer or a cloud then sold the CDs on eBay or Music Magpie. |
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Rich |
A friend of my parents actually did something a few years ago that now seems like a dreadful act of self vandalism and scarcely seems believable. I still cannot believe he did it. Wanting rid of all his vinyl music he recorded it all onto blank cassette tapes and then binned all the records. That to me is certifiable, and he soon came to realise what a fool he had been not long afterwards. |
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Green Man |
I do remember record tokens, in the 80s I was a teenager who moved from Ireland for America. I don't remember America having record tokens.
I do remember ordering LPS from the television and getting on to mailing lists.
I think what put me off 45's is that I had boxes of them, which I got from bargain bins and garage sales, they were taking up space and collecting dust. LPs were easier to store on the shelves. I did buy the singles for Calling All Stations for the B Sides, which should of been added on the re-releases, it's the neglected Genesis album.
Sadly in the 90s I dumped all the vinyl like most people did for CDS. 
Since JK has spoken about Micheal Jackson I did buy his Number 1's compliation and I did get hold of History yesterday in a charity shop. I like to listen to CDs in the truck when I do deliveries. I like browsing in charity shops and finding little gems or getting T-shirts for mucky jobs.
I have forgotten how good he was in the 80s. I won't go out my way to buy his stuff but if I see them around, I will of course buy them. |
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