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Suicane75 · 06-07-2016, 08:23 PM

Inspired by Abes Chicago thread, I wanted to ask a question about LP's. By the time I starting buying music, tapes were pretty much overtaking LP's. I think the 4 records that I actually bought were Thriller, Purple Rain, Chicago 17 and Make It Big, the latter of which skipped horribly and I had to exchange, only to find that the replacements also skipped, pretty much in the same spots.

My question is, what was the decorum for bad LP's back in the day? Return, exchange, just bite the bullet? How often did you get a bad LP that was just unlistenable? And furthermore, how often was it that you got a bad LP? I'm guessing that since my experience is at the tale end of the industry that not much effort was going into the pressings so maybe they just didn't care all that much?

06-07-2016, 08:23 PM	#15977
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	Inspired by Abes Chicago thread, I wanted to ask a question about LP's. By the time I starting buying music, tapes were pretty much overtaking LP's. I think the 4 records that I actually bought were Thriller, Purple Rain, Chicago 17 and Make It Big, the latter of which skipped horribly and I had to exchange, only to find that the replacements also skipped, pretty much in the same spots. My question is, what was the decorum for bad LP's back in the day? Return, exchange, just bite the bullet? How often did you get a bad LP that was just unlistenable? And furthermore, how often was it that you got a bad LP? I'm guessing that since my experience is at the tale end of the industry that not much effort was going into the pressings so maybe they just didn't care all that much?