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Re: Past 30 Years of Records Sales
Yeah when I saw that I wanted the same thing(8 track stats).
Bizarre how cassette singles were such a small fraction of sales in 87-88 when the malls and record stores had aisles devoted to them. I used to buy them all the time. Hell, as most of you old gunners know, only way you could hear that killer version of KOHD live at the Marquee before radio picked it up and turned it into a hit was from buying that SCOM single. Or was it the PC single? I don't remember.
Re: Past 30 Years of Records Sales
- A Private Eye
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Re: Past 30 Years of Records Sales
I was shocked to find out cassettes still made up HALF of all music sales by the early 90's. I thought CD's were really dominating by that point.
Most cars still only had tape players in though at that point so music for your car still had to be cassette.
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I was shocked to find out cassettes still made up HALF of all music sales by the early 90's. I thought CD's were really dominating by that point.
It was interesting how both formats coexisted. Fuck, I bought Superunknown on cassette first day of release and that was in 1994. Bought Elastica and Liz Phair on cassette in 95, but yeah most music purchases were cd.
APE makes a good point on car stereos. When my dad died in 95 and I bought a new truck with some of the life insurance, truck had a cassette player. I had to get one of those portable cd players and plug it into the cig lighter.
What kept cassettes going into the late 90s were all those music stores selling used cassettes. Once that market evaporated, it was over.
- Mikkamakka
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I was shocked to find out cassettes still made up HALF of all music sales by the early 90's. I thought CD's were really dominating by that point.
I bought my first CDs (AFD, Snakepit's 5 O'Clock and Dream Theater's Awake) in 1996. It wasn't in the US though, the post-communist era was years behind the Western civilization.
I remember that in the 80s, you often had to wait for YEARS to buy your US favourites' new album in the stores. I was really surprised when the UYI twins came out, cause I feared a long wait - but I bought it 3 days prior to the world release in my local store. They didn't give a shit about some international release date nonsense. 
