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    On CD it was Love Over Good by Dire Straits. If my memory is correct it cost a whopping £14.99. That was in 1985!
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    Quote Originally Posted by prestonchipfryer View Post
    On CD it was Love Over Good by Dire Straits. If my memory is correct it cost a whopping £14.99. That was in 1985!
    I do remember the price of most CDs was astronomical when they were first launched but you thought you were buying space age technology!
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    You were.
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    And at the dame time the quality of vinyl records was taking a nosedive, which I'm convinced was a deliberate ploy to shift us over to "perfect sound forever" with a little help from John Cleese. I resisted until 1990, by which time I decided they might actually be right.

    Still kept my vinyl though, just didn't buy any more for about twenty years.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Back in 76 (I think):

    Vinyl 12”

    Roxy Music Siren
    Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume 2

    But my first 7” was

    Sex Pistols God Save The Queen

    First CD was quite late and I think it was a Prefab Sprout number because I didn’t have access to a player until I met my now missus in 1986. (I bought her a discman for her birthday in 1987).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kember View Post
    Back in 76 (I think):

    Vinyl 12”

    Roxy Music Siren
    Elton John’s Greatest Hits Volume 2

    But my first 7” was

    Sex Pistols God Save The Queen

    First CD was quite late and I think it was a Prefab Sprout number because I didn’t have access to a player until I met my now missus in 1986. (I bought her a discman for her birthday in 1987).
    Have you still got it? Outside chance it might be worth a fortune. Mine is the wrong one, only worth about 7 quid
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie.

    I still have it, but I bought another copy that doesn't have all the scratches, jumps and surface noise caused by playing it on the various crappy record players that were all I could afford at the time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    "There's a man with a van, playing John Cale records, behind the green door"
    John cale it is, Paris 1919, sorry wrong thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Have you still got it? Outside chance it might be worth a fortune. Mine is the wrong one, only worth about 7 quid

    Sadly not. I think it is the second or third pressing.

    I did buy the first pressing but it was for my cousin in Norway. I should ask him if he still has it.

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    First single- Diamonds by Jet Harris and Tony Meehan. 1963.

    First album - Shadows Greatest Hits. 1964.
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    Fruit flies like a banana.

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