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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: It's About Time We Talked about Loss Leaders |
| Date | Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:00:50 -0500 |
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From: "Mark Eichelberger" <markeichelberger@comcast.net>
> Oooo...it's weird that the subject of Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders
> came up. I was recently at my parent's house and was helping my Mom
> clean out the attic and we came across a small crate of old vinyl I
> left at their house years earlier. Among some of the old Jethro
> Tull, ELP and Yes albums were a bunch of the Loss Leaders. I'm sure
> a bunch of us..umm..slightly older Audities members have (or had)
> these albums in their collection.
I never owned any of them at the time, but I did occasionally look
longingly at the inner sleeves of my older sister's WB albums and wish
I could have gotten some of them, but this was the late '70s or so and
I was sure they were all sold out. Long about 1998 or so, I found a
copy of APPETIZERS at Bow Wow in Albuquerque and bought it on a whim,
only to be delighted to find that it was actually a really good comp
with a lot of great stuff on it. Since then, largely with the help of
eBay, I have amassed a near-complete collection, plus a few
single-disc rarities from the same period like THE KYA 1260 GREAT
RIP-OFF ALBUM and NON-DAIRY CREAMER. I *finally* laid hands on my
personal grail, the three-disc LOONEY TUNES AND MERRIE MELODIES, last
year. Deeply satisfying, that was.
S
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