Last weekend I picked up the Tavares album In The City from Recycled and found, other than the classic tracks pressed on the vinyl, a piece of advertising on the sleeve that would never fly today (plus it wouldn’t be good as a metaphor for a bargain).
The latest in a long line of Warner Bros. ‘Loss Leader’ sampler albums, Supergroup is, track-for-track, today’s best music bargain. (Think of it: 90 minutes of today’s best contemporary music for less than the cost of 4 packs of cigarettes.)
The cigarette comparison would no longer fly. Pretty soon it’ll probably be the other way around – four CDs for the price of a pack of cigarettes. Not only that, but this seems like a trivial matter that people would be up in arms about today. I’ll have you know that I’m up in arms about this piece of advertising, and it isn’t due to the mention of cigarettes. I just want to know why they decided to put the last sentence in parenthesis. The aside is longer than the text that precedes it. What’s the deal with that?
Here’s to you 1975 America.
