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Music Compilations (Buy one - get one free)

  • 01-01-2007 1:22pm
    #1
    Cork
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    Music compilations were the same price as an individual cd.

    This was good value.

    I think this practice must have stopped with the introduction of cds.

    There were not as many compilation albums around.

    I remember buying Sixties Mania on cassette along with many Now Cassettes.


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  • #2
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    This practice died out around 1982 when the last Chart Hits 19xx was released.

    Chart Hits were in the format of a single LP (called volume 1) and you got volume 2 (a separate LP in its own sleeve) free.

    The first Now That's What I Call Music LP emerged in December 1983. Like all the NOWs it was a double LP in a gatefold sleeve. The first three retailed for £6.99 (same price as ordinary chart LPs) but NOW 4 (November 1984) was £7.99.

    Vinyl editions of the NOWs went on until the mid 1990s (up to around NOW 40). At that stage they were cramming more and more songs on so each side of the LP had over 32 minutes of music which meant that the sound quality was compromised.


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