If you go back to the days of vinyl, or even cassette or 8-track tapes, you can probably remember walking into a record store with cash in your pocket, ready to buy the latest rock album. That cash was the universal, mechanized power you had as a vote, to show that you liked the music you were about to purchase in a tangible form. Record stores were just like book stores. You would shuffle up and down each aisle in the store, flipping through album after album, eventually finding one from your favorite band that you just had to have. When you purchased a book or a record, it was something you would keep in your collection for many years to come. Building your collection of records was like building your library of books. You took pride in the ownership and bragged about how many albums you had. Your friends would come over, and you would put the album on your turntable and crank up the volume. You'd listen to each track while your friend sat on the end of your unmade bed and read the …
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