Dire Straits: Walk of Life
Remember how we all bought this tape in Caldor's and couldn't wait to wrestle it from its cumbersome medieval plastic packaging?
Good times.
Friday, September 11, 2009
Dire Straits: Walk of Life
Remember how we all bought this tape in Caldor's and couldn't wait to wrestle it from its cumbersome medieval plastic packaging?
Good times.
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1985
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Funny to see that eBay demon in the lower righthand corner of that picture. I wonder what this tape went for on eBay?
Brothers In Arms and Graceland were the first two CDs we had. I think my mom bought them.
I was recently mocked for playing Your Latest Trick with people over. I thought it was a classy choice, but hey, you can't please everybody :)
HA! Caldors. I remember that brown and orange rainbow logo pretty well.
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I remember this was one the last blockbusters that came out on vinyl towards th end of my17 years straight stretch of working in Record Stores (which places it about 1985-6. I had a Quiex (remember THAt little squiggle of a gotta have it?) Mastered promo, a 10" inch single of Walk Of Life b/w So Far Away, a 12" single of So Far Away and a 12" single of Money For Nothing, a Warner Bros promo 45, the new BETTER cassette and a German pressed CD (all of which I still have). I could NOt get enough of this LP. Shortly afte the LP came out I went to see the Everly Bros in concert and they did Why Worry? off the LP (which Knopler had written for them) only I didn't know it and they BLEW me away when they did it (it came out on their second reunion studio CD/LP on Mercury USA/PolygramUK...had to get BOTH of those, since there was one more cut on the UK version). I was a buyer at the store and between the promos (I usually got upwards to 50 LPs, 25 promo 12" singles and an equal number or 45s PLUS what ever Cassettes the salesmen mioght want me to order MORe of OR give away. I have a lot of fond memories of that time. It was soon to end in early 1986 and my first marraige would soon follow, victim of havinjg over 150,000 records in a 10 room house. My wife was overwhelmed. I couldn't move out (easily) so she did. I moved 5 times in the next 8 years until I thought I'd have a heart attack and started selling MOST of everything off. I guess I kept what I mentioned earlier because it really was my last obsessive blast.
you love Dire Straits yet your wife left you? How inexplicable...
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Philistines, Emmett. Philistines.
This was actually the first tape I bought. A landmark album for me and, for different reasons, Duncan I see. And thanks for reminding me that the tape itself was high tech! I had almost forgotten.
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