YOUR VINYL PANTIES HAVE ARRIVED
The late great 70’s novelty disc fad.
So you thought the 70's were some kind of vast cultural wasteland, huh? Big Boys like Tom Wolfe called it the "Me Decade and you ate it up, right? Well, forget it, ex-hippie dopes! There really were lots of people looking out for your better interests, and you should be ashamed of yourselves!
Case in point: those nice people at record companies! While you were busy pissing your money away, these noble philanthropists continued an honorable tradition and pulled in some big bucks of their own. How? From the Legendary End-of the-70's-Vinyl-Scam, that's how.
Take colored vinyl. Started back when 78s were hip, faded away, came back in the 50's for kiddie singles, faded away, a few jazz labels pumped it out in the Iate50's, faded away, came back for a few obscuroDJ-promos in the rpid-60's, then never really faded away. Nazz Nazz. Dave Mason's Alone Together. Those were the hot ones 'cause they were available to the public, but there were lots more.
Remember cardboard records? Remember the ones that came on the back of cereal boxes? Bobby Sherman and Raisin Bran? Jackson 5 and Alpha-Bits? Marilyn Chambers and Club Magazine? Velva Feeley and Velvet?