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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Triscuits View Post
    Surely mailing each record individually to the consumer ended up costing a lot more than shipping them in bulk to a distributor.
    If I recall correctly, the mail order loss leaders did not come postage paid -- the buyer had to pay S&H.

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    I think I have a Virgin sampler floating around somewhere.
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    Don't be silly, virgins can't be sampled.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    Don't be silly, virgins can't be sampled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Some of these (Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies, for example) I have never seen before, and did not even know existed until now.
    Here's a track list Mike:
    Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies (1970)

    Side One: 5.5 Richter and Under
    1. It's The Plastic (radio spot) 0:60
    2. Faces - Real Good Time 3:59
    3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid 2:50
    4. Little Feat - Strawberry Flats 2:21
    5. Hard Meat - Smiles As You Go Under 3:04
    6. Fleetwood Mac - Tell Me All The Things You Do 4:10
    7. Jimi Hendrix - Stepping Stone 4:05

    Side Two: Resident Writers and Reapers of Wry Kudos
    1. John Simon - The Elves' Song 4:32
    2. Ry Cooder - Alimony 2:11
    3. Randy Newman - Let's Burn Down The Cornfield 3:03
    4. Gordon Lightfoot - Me and Bobby McGee 3:38
    5. Jimmy L. Webb - P.F. Sloan 4:00
    6. Jack Nitzsche - Performance/Harry Flowers 4:00

    Side Three: Breadwinners and Other Staples
    1. Chip Dip (radio spot) 0:60
    2. Little Richard - I Saw Her Standing There 2:37
    3. The Grateful Dead - Sugar Magnolia 3:15
    4. Van Morrison - Call Me Up In Dreamland 3:52
    5. The Kinks - Apeman 4:06
    6. Arlo Guthrie - Valley To Pray 2:47
    7. The Beach Boys - It's About Time 2:56

    Side Four: California Antacid Rock
    1. The Youngbloods - It's A Lovely Day 2:35
    2. Jeffrey Cain - Houndog Turkey 2:56
    3. Lovecraft - Love Has Come To Me 3:11
    4. Sweetwater - Just For You 9:20

    Side Five: Avant and National Guard
    1. Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby 2:38
    2. The Mothers of Invention - Directly From My Heart To You 5:17
    3. Alice Cooper - Return of the Spiders 4:25
    4. Frank Zappa - Would You Go All The Way? 2:30
    5. Beaver & Krause - Spaced 3:51
    6. Pearls Before Swine - The Jeweler 2:45

    Side Six: Electric Jesus
    1. Beaver & Krause - Santuary 1:43
    2. James Taylor - Lo and Behold 2:34
    3. Harper's Bizarre - If We Ever Needed The Lord Before 2:57
    4. Van Dyke Parks - On The Rolling Sea When Jesus Speak To Me 2:25
    5. The Persuasions - It's All Right 3:25
    6. Turley Richards - I Heard The Voice of Jesus 7:05

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    If I recall correctly, the mail order loss leaders did not come postage paid
    In fact, they did. $1 per disc was all you paid.

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    Inflation calculator sez 2 bucks in 1972 is about $10.83 today. So they might have lost a tad overall on the deal, but not their shirts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Triscuits View Post
    In fact, they did. $1 per disc was all you paid.
    Right. I verified that myself last night. What can I say the memory chips are corrupted.

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    I remember a strange sampler album with Keith Emerson and an unlikely group of musicians. The cover had a person in the desert. I've forgotten the name or the label.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Ears View Post
    I remember a strange sampler album with Keith Emerson and an unlikely group of musicians. The cover had a person in the desert. I've forgotten the name or the label.
    Was it this one?
    Last edited by rcarlberg; 09-04-2013 at 01:26 PM.

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    No, but it was released on Charisma at one stage. I think it is called Music from Free Creek and it seems weird, although I have never heard anything from the album.

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    Music from Free Creek wasn't a sampler per se, it was a "super session" album of the sort that was in vogue around the late '60s-early '70s, featuring rock stars jamming in various lineups.

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    Harvest's Picnic compilation is amazing and I wish I had kept my copy. I got it from the embryonic Virgin records mail order in Melody Maker for £1.25. Fittingly it included Pink Floyd's Embryo as well as tracks from Deep Purple, Panama Jugband, Quatermas, Bakerloo and many others.
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