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Least rare album you own.
Clobbersaurus:
--- Quote from: tommydski on 04 Dec 2007, 06:11 ---I have Thriller on vinyl.
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ditto.
that and Bad together in perfect condition for $5 on ebay, ship included. wewt. *pats self on back*
(and none of you motherfuckers better say anything to take that pat pat pat away from me!)
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: zerodrone on 12 Dec 2007, 17:15 ---
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 12 Dec 2007, 16:44 ---So let me see if I have this straight - the crux of your argument is that fifty million people own The Eagles' greatest hits because they like them?
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Pretty much!
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I would argue that the fact that the Eagles best-selling release is a best-of is not a particular endorsement. In fact, when you correlate the success of this release and the success of Hotel California, which has sold about 27 million copies, what I think we are actually seeing is that a hell of a lot of people listen to classic rock radio. With the best-of, I think it's likely to be a sort of self-sustaining effect. It's popularity ensures that it is widely available, and in turn it is probably bought a lot pretty much for specific songs as opposed to the albums they originally came from. At the end of the day, it's not so much that fifty million people like the Eagles, it's that up to* fifty million people thought 'Tequila Sunrise' was a good song.
*Maybe much less than fifty million. Remember that both the best-of and Hotel California were originally released on vinyl. Similiarly with almost all the best-selling albums: Thriller, Back in Black, Dark Side of the Moon, and so forth. You've got to account for re-buying on CD. Trying to calculate ownership statistics for albums released before the advent of CDs is impossible as, theoretically, individual purchases and ownership could differ by up to 50%. Of course, replacement copies and so forth must always be taken into account...what this means, at the end of the day, is that more people are likely to own The Bodyguard Soundtrack or Millenium by the Backstreet boys than any given release by The Eagles, The Beatles, Pink Floyd etc.
MadassAlex:
I don't own anything by the Eagles but a friend of mine swears they're the best thing since big tits.
But he also says playing fast isn't music so I am trying to take it with a grain of salt.
costacide:
Green Day's Dookie and Enema Of The State by Blink-182.
Kai:
I really do love how this parody thread has far outlived the thread it was mocking
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