Sixties and Oldies

[davemarc]

At 09:19 PM 2/5/96 -0500, ethan wrote:
>

>The spread of music of the past is a relatively recent phenomenon because
>of the recent glut of recorded music.  With the creation of CD's, well
>recorded, easy to take care of music was suddenly available.  Obviously,
>people had record collections before CD's, but the market for CD's is much
>greater.  Starting in the 80's, everyone began having collections of music.
>And record companies, in their business-savy way, capitalized on this by
>re-releasing scads of old records, that were often out of print.  So all
>this music was suddenly again available.
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This really doesn't ring true.  The accumulated sounds on pre-CD vinyl are
truly formidable; I'd be shocked if the CD output of the past ten-or-so
years encompasses them.

On other points raised in this thread: movie revivals have existed for many,
many decades; there have always been political pop songs.

davemarc