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This came out right around the time I graduated from college. I moved in with someone I had a pretty doomed relationship with, and the switch from school to work meant a lot of sensory overload I didn't understand. Goodbye to my routines and safety...for a while. This album was some of my only companionship.

..." Yonder Comes A Sucker " ~ Jim Reeves! Yeee-hah.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Music question of the day:
Do any of you remember / cherish the scent of a brand new vinyl coming out of the sleeve? The smell when you rip the plastic wrap off and see that fresh black album? It's indelible for me, and I don't find albums smell same the same any more!

I used to like the smell of the record player itself.

The first album I bought on my own was the Carpenter’s Greatest Hits. Through the mail when I was 12.

That's so ... nifty!
I just gathered some old vinyls from my mother's house including my Captain & Tennille and one by Shaun Cassidy. I saw my brother's Eric Burdon albums too.

Lusine - Just a Cloud

...Was that Carpenters Album a record club purchase, KK? I could talk about record clubs...
IL, what Shaun album was it? Were your brother's Eric albums the later-60s " ERIC BURDON And The Animals " ones, with no other original members? One of the Police was in those later Animals. I don't recall any big deal about new vinyl smell, tho'. I've always had a weak-ish sense of smell...Regarding being a comic book fan, my best (only ) fellow fan friend as a teenager would go on about " comic book smell ", especially of old ones? --- as other fans have. The comic books of our youth (If I may say, at the danger of non-gallantness , IL, I presume you're in our general age bracket !) were, of course, printed on cheap pulp paper with the 32 pages of an interior, I am told, costing less to print than the 4 pages of the cover - Now, standard sized comic books are print inside on slick paper, if maybe not the same paper stock as the cover.
Remember those " Contains The HIT Single: ' stickers that were stuck to the shrinkwrap on LPs back in the day ? I'd like 'em, but I'd always lose 'em . Really late in the day for LPs (As " mainstream " things that would have such lro stuff, anyway.), when I was living in Green Bay, I found that someone I knew would take those stickers and put them inside the LP jacket on e it was opened, between the cardboard and the record. What a great idea!
I do remember opening the sealed LPs, by running a fingernail/somett else in the opening for the record, underneath the shrinkwrap . The feel on my finger!

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!