Remember 45's?

John Brunner said:
I loved the record discount bin!!! If you were into jazz, blues and big band music, you could get some real deals. It was also kind of depressing to see a record by someone like Jack Jones selling for 99¢, as though the masses did not value his talent.
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I shopped discount music bins all the time in my teens! Some of the best music I acquired was from sale music bins!
 
John Brunner said:
I loved the record discount bin!!! If you were into jazz, blues and big band music, you could get some real deals. It was also kind of depressing to see a record by someone like Jack Jones selling for 99¢, as though the masses did not value his talent.
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John, in the early 60s most 45 records here were .99. My first record purchase was Beatles first record for .99 at the record store, don't suppose they have record stores anymore, now that cd's are here.
 
Marie Mallory said:
John, in the early 60s most 45 records here were .99. My first record purchase was Beatles first record for .99 at the record store, don't suppose they have record stores anymore, now that cd's are here.
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Most cars do not come with a cd player these days, if any of them do. It's all streaming from the phone through the Infotainment Systems, or it's downloaded MP3s on stick memory.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Jake put a radio and CD player in my van.
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My 2005 truck has a factory CD player in it, but I don't use it ever since it ate my favorite Blood Sweat & Tears album. My Mazda has Apple Play in it (for streaming music) and a USB port for MP3s, but since I have XM Radio, I have never used them. I used to carry tunes with me for road trips, but since XM is satellite, the music is uninterrupted no matter how far you drive. It's funny I noticed when I took my first road trip with XM, I was missing out on the local flavor of FM stations going in & out and of what was being transmitted at my destination. It was kind of weird not having the experience of being somewhere else.
 
John Brunner said:
My 2005 truck has a factory CD player in it, but I don't use it ever since it ate my favorite Blood Sweat & Tears album. My Mazda has Apple Play in it (for streaming music) and a USB port for MP3s, but since I have XM Radio, I have never used them. I used to carry tunes with me for road trips, but since XM is satellite, the music is uninterrupted no matter how far you drive. It's funny I noticed when I took my first road trip with XM, I was missing out on the local flavor of FM stations going in & out and of what was being transmitted at my destination. It was kind of weird not having the experience of being somewhere else.
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I wouldn't know how to play that, and Jake needs to keep his eyes locked on the road, along with me, his backseat driver of course.
 
I had 100’s of 45’s. 100’s! I had been buying them since I was 13 years old, maybe. I think they might have been…35 cents each at the time. I had washed dishes in a restaurant after school and after basketball games to earn record money. I spent a lot on records. I didn’t listen them to them much in my later years. I had stored them in milk crates and moved them around from place to place over the years.

When cd-r’s become available, I found a program on the internet, which was free at the time, that I could convert my 45’s onto music cd’s. I also still had a record player that I had boxed up and stored as well, which I needed to conert the records. It was a long process, but I transferred all my 45’s and record albums onto cd’s. They sound really good on the cd’s too. Now I have all those music cd’s stored in a plastic container box, which takes up less space. I sold all my 45’s in groups of 25 on Ebay after that, which has been probably 30 years ago, maybe.
 
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I remember listening to them in my aunts car in the early 80s!

I didnt know what they were but they sounded good!!


Im glad there are alot of them still about!!!
 
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