Re: [ARSCLIST] "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
> In all of this, let us not forget how very expensive records were until 
> well into the electric era. Even without inflation, a couple of dollars 
> for a single side seems high, but that was the price for a premium title 
> from Victor when a dollar a day was a substantial wage.
> 
Well, there was a $10 Red Seal Victor...and many labels sold regular
pop records for $1 each! And, $1/day was a standard wage for many
people. Sears, of course, sold records for 20 or 25 cents each. However,
the important change occured when Emerson introduced their 50-cent
Regal label...quickly followed by the similarly-priced Perfect discs from
Pathe. There were other 25-cent store labels...but, in 1934, Jack Kapp
brought out the 35-cent Decca discs, which featured many ex-Brunswick
artists.

In fact, record prices didn't go up until after WWII, when all the 35-cent
labels disappeared (except Decca, which simply dropped cheaper
series, ending up with the 75-cent [later $1] 23000+ series after
1946...)

Steven C. Barr