Pluggers by Rick McKee for December 15, 2021

I did this many of times and even paid them as well once or twice lol .

Don’t know how they ever made any money with this deal…

If I had to choose 10 musicians for 1¢, I’d do two cassettes each of John Denver, Willie Nelson, Chicago, Neil Diamond, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Ah the good ol’ days.

Pluggers remember eight-tracks!

That deal was sweet! And this music seems more like what a plugger’s kids would like than what a plugger would like, stereotypically.

I remember it being vinyl! And yeah, joined a few times :)

I remember when cassettes first came out companies tried to make laws that it was illegal to make home made mix tapes because they thought they would lose money if easily made copies of their music were available.

Don’t forget about the book clubs, same deal.

Can THAT still be done ????

Nothing like the Good Old Days ! Going through a Buddy’s record collection at a party and picking out the next record to play …….. also checking out the album covers ;-)

Yes, then the next shipment of Tapes where all crappy and they charged you $10 a tape, Columbia House

I’d buy the vinyl LPs, play them once to be sure I liked all the music, then played them again to record them on cassette. I’d carefully store the vinyl away as my “master” source, then play the cassette until it wore out, then get a new one and re-record. I could get one album on each side of a 90-minute tape. I almost bought a reel-to-reel — so glad I opted for the cassette recorder. Maxell worked the best, with TDK and BASF as close second choices. Scotch was the worst as it always built up magnetic feedback and made a high-pitched squeal when played back.

I never got the tapes though I do have some. I got the 33-1/2 vinyl records. Got a lot of them and still have them all. The trick was to just get the minimum and then quit. Start up again after a while. They were a bargain. Then they went to CDs and I did it all over again. My collection is very large and I will play them in rotation. When done with the CDs, I will go through the vinyl and then start over with the CDs, etc…

I still have a ton of cassettes and a cassette player. Same for CD’s and three players; two portable Walkman players and one component unit. Most use our iPods now.

Don’t remember that there that many good bands in the entire year, let alone one month.

The first thing I did was put an eight track player in my first car.

And were pursued by “club” debt collectors all through college.

And you could cancel at any time…snerks

And then the next 8 for three times what they were worth. Who else subscribed more than once? I used my middle name, put apartment 2 even though we lived in a single family house…

I used to get 12 LPs for 1¢… what does that make me?

we do! we do!!!

I did!

My mom joined the “Longines Symphonet Society” (I think that was the name) which was for classical music. They sent her a crappy little $30 record player that had a tall spindle and swing arm so she could stack up to six records to be played one at a time. The little speakers were barely better than auto speakers, but mom was happy with it and played the heck out of it. When I got a job I went out and dropped $500 on a decent (for the time) stereo system . My dad about went ballistic when he heard how much it cost. I got it set up, played a few minutes of one of mom’s LPs on her set, then carefully cleaned it and played it on my new set. After listening, Dad said “OK, I can hear where the money went.” So that was a relief.

Nah, it was 12 LPs for a penny! & all the guys used to wait until a couple of months before the end of the school year & order them sent to their dorms under false names. I knew several who built up pretty sizeable collections that way…