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Of course, not so many years ago, one could not upload or even hear samples of songs from an album, unless one could convince the record store owner to let you listen before buying (very rare), heard an album in its entirety on the radio (yeah, right), or borrowed records from friends (this is assuming your friends have good records, likelihood of which is thrown into doubt when they too have to rely on the record store and radio).
So, many of my LPs were bought based on reviews, word of mouth, hearing one song, or out of curiosity. That said, I think it's a wonder that most (80 percent) of my collection is actually very decent. It's a wonder, too, that I bought such gems as Horses, Modern Lovers, Ramones, Marquee Moon, Blank Generation, etc., when they first came out, because in most cases I was buying them purely on instinct, liking how they looked or what I remembered hearing about them.
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