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At 2/12/2006 07:17 PM, you wrote:
Remember the "oil shortage" of the early 70s? That was the reason given at the
time. Thinner records, lowered speed limits, switching Daylight Saving Time
around..I remember it well. Now they just jack up the prices on everything.
During that period, US Columbia discovered that they could substitute
cellophane (or some other clear film) for vinyl. They were buying
huge rolls of the stuff, without ever explaining to the supplier what
it was being used for. I don' think it was the same stuff they used
for shrink-wrap, but some other type of non-pertroleum-based film.
They claimed it made no difference to the sound of the disks.