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Columbia did have CRC on some of the records I got from them. I do know that Record Club of America did not have a license from A&M to manufacture so all I got from them for A&M records were sealed with proper inner sleeves.Club releases were produced as cheaply as possible, so shorcuts were always made. Sub-par masters, B-grade vinyl, minimal jacket (even changing some single-LP gatefolds into regular jackets). At least in the 70s, Columbia was smart enough to imprint "CRC" somewhere on the jacket. Club CDs also were missing the barcodes on the packaging.
If I had a card and Internet back then, I'd probably still be paying off the charges!!!That was a different kind of record club--I belonged to one as well, not RCofA, but another one that was probably operated by a distributor or rack jobber who sold LPs at discount prices. Their "catalog" was the Schwann catalog, with their price codes imprinted on the rear cover. Only issue there was that I did not have a credit card at a young age, and that made ordering a nuisance. Had they been around in the Internet age, I'd have gone broke.
You and me both! As it was, I used to wait up for the yearly sale at a nearby record store (part of a statewide chain) where they offered, I think, 20% or 25% off for every album, any format, in the store for two weeks. (They used to call it a Gran Prix sale since the timing coincided with the automobile race in our area.) Aside from what I'd get over the holidays as gifts, I'd save up most of my purchases until that sale. I would buy records throughout the year there and elsewhere when they were on sale (usually as new releases), but this was a chance to catch up on back catalog items or recent releases I had missed.If I had a card and Internet back then, I'd probably still be paying off the charges!!!
We had Peaches here as well but just one store. I was there every few weeks hitting the cutout bins. We had another one called Tracks prior to Peaches and they were still here into the 90's. I hit their cutout bins as well. They did not have as much as Peaches. Peaches also had a Six Pack Deal-buy 5 and get the 6th free. Once Tracks started carrying videos for sale or rent, the lp records bins began to disappear.You and me both! As it was, I used to wait up for the yearly sale at a nearby record store (part of a statewide chain) where they offered, I think, 20% or 25% off for every album, any format, in the store for two weeks. (They used to call it a Gran Prix sale since the timing coincided with the automobile race in our area.) Aside from what I'd get over the holidays as gifts, I'd save up most of my purchases until that sale. I would buy records throughout the year there and elsewhere when they were on sale (usually as new releases), but this was a chance to catch up on back catalog items or recent releases I had missed.
One of the saddest sales was shopping at Peaches when they were shutting down our nearby store and clearing out inventory. What I missed the most after they closed was their cutout bin. Some chart-topping albums a year or two later were ending up in the cutout bins for $0.99 or $1.99. It was the only store in town that carried cut-outs.
Even if I didn't order much from the record club, the Schwann's catalog helped me identify records that the local stores didn't stock, but that I could still order. I think the stores used the Phonolog (?) catalog to order from, and the two usually coincided with availability.
There was a Peaches in the Richmond VA area up into the early 90's before cd's really pushed out lp's.There was a Peaches store near Maumee, Ohio (near the Ohio Turnpike) back in the late 70's & early 80's!!
I think the stores used the Phonolog (?) catalog to order from
I had the same experience in a Musicland looking at the Phonolog which had the Noche De Amor and also another listed as Tijuana Brass titled BRAVIO which at the time I was unfamiliar with Spanish versions but assumed they were Foreign albums although curious I forgot about those until I found out BRAVIO was the Bullish album for the Spanish market however Had I known I would've bought Noche De Amor if I knew about the two alternate tracks and buying BRAVIO would have been just for collectors purposes and kept sealed as I already had BullishI remember looking through a Sam Goody store one day and I spotted the Phonolog catalog up on a cabinet of some kind. I thumbed through it, and like Mike, always went to the Alpert section first. It was there that I spotted an unfamiliar entry, NOCHE DE AMOR. Not knowing a word of Spanish, I just assumed it was one of the standard albums retitled in Spanish. But I still wasn't sure, and almost got to an employee for assistance, but my lunch hour was running short, so I left.
I never thought about that again until logging onto the Corner here and finding that it was the BLOW YOUR OWN HORN album with two alternate tracks for the Latin audience.
I’ve got that Columbia reissue, too.I picked up a copy of Tapestry in a used record store in Northern Va back in the 80's. It was open but the back cover looked different. It was a release done by Capitol Records. The real funny thing though is that the label for Side 1 plays Side 2 songs and vise versa. I also have an issue when Ode went back to Columbia for distribution.