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braddy

(3,585 posts)
5. LOL, when I brought it back from California to Texas, I was the cutting edge guy for a while.
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 10:43 PM
Jun 2016

I was months ahead of the game.

downeastdaniel

(497 posts)
6. I too bought it in the fall of '69, loved it and still do.
Thu Jun 9, 2016, 11:54 AM
Jun 2016

The record store had two big piles of albums, $4 for mono and $5 for stereo. I bought a "stereo" and listened to the speakers out in the street, they flipped it the second that it was over on side one, then played side two and then they repeated. After hearing all songs twice I took it home to play the whole album twice more. Then I got back to studying...those were the days...

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