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Cool, back in the day going to the record store for new releases was a big deal. I can remember waiting for specific albums, Pink Floyd The Wall was a highly anticipated release, there was a line to get a copy.

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Jeeze, those masters must have cost a small fortune each to fabricate.  Here's a really interesting article on the wholesale destruction of masters that was common before the 80's:  Vault Losses  A lot of stuff was scrapped, thrown out to reduce storage costs, even dynamited in place and bulldozed.  When CD's were introduced and consumers started asking for old music on the new format, the labels simply couldn't come up with quality recordings of a lot of what was in demand and realized that their horrendous vault policies were costing them a lot of money.

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Jeeze, those masters must have cost a small fortune each to fabricate.  Here's a really interesting article on the wholesale destruction of masters that was common before the 80's:  Vault Losses  A lot of stuff was scrapped, thrown out to reduce storage costs, even dynamited in place and bulldozed.  When CD's were introduced and consumers started asking for old music on the new format, the labels simply couldn't come up with quality recordings of a lot of what was in demand and realized that their horrendous vault policies were costing them a lot of money.