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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: First Album Ever Purchased |
| Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2003 05:02:31 -0500 |
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I felt the same way when I got the #1-Radio City CD - "Hey I remember that
album".....
Luckly I did pick up Raspberries "Fresh", The Hollies "Stop Stop Stop" and The
Kinks "Kinkdom" at TG&Y in the early 80's during my high school and college
years. I think I paid 50 cents EACH for those last albums in mint shape.
I wish I could go back in time and raid those Thrifty Drug, Disco Fair, Two
Guys, Fed Mart, TG&Y, Gibsons, K-Mart and Wal-Mart (when they were still a
small southwest chain in the late 70's) bargan LP bins with the musical
knowlege I have now.
Billy
At 06:36 PM 6/24/03 -0400, you wrote:
>At 03:38 PM 6/24/2003 -0500, Michael Bennett wrote:
>>Stewart -- I don't recall you mentioning your dad's store before -- what
>>type of store and did you buy any other memorable records there?
>
>My dad was a district manager for TG&Y, the same company Billy mentions in
>his post on the subject. I bought many many records at TG&Y over the
>years, particularly out of the bargain bin, where they had such treasures
>as all of Badfinger's Apple albums and the rest of the non-Beatles Apple
>catalogue. I also bought a couple of albums on Stax through there. That
>fact coupled with the fact that the covers of #1 RECORD and RADIO CITY
>looked strangely familiar to me when I finally bought them in high school
>leads me to believe that both those albums were frequently seen in the TG&Y
>bargain bins, which I now view as one of the major missed opportunities of
>my life, up there with being too dense to figure out until a year or so
>later that Kristin Hollingshead was totally hitting on me in 7th grade
>social studies.
>
>S
>
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