FAO Old-ish Farts

Was asked by one of my kids how much an LP (one of those weird black round things) cost in the 70s. Couldn't for the life of me remember. 3 quid, maybe? Doesn't sound right. I do remember being outraged when Rothmans went up to a whopping 55p for 20...

 

I still play one that I bought for 13/6d

 

I've still got some with price stickers on from Woolworths £2.49 on a few.

 

i seem to remember 7 inch singles used to be about 70p

 

Distinctly remember saving up to buy Janis Joplin's last record in 1971 and it cost $5.95A

 

Woolworths £2,50,
Boots £2.50
HMV a whopping £3
And I paid £3.50 for Roxy Musics Country life albumn at Marble Arch London the day it was released in 1974, a weeks car cleaning money, happy days

 

Singles were 50p in woolies, I bought David Bowies Jean Jeanie, Trex Telegram Sam and Roxy Musics Virginia Plain on the Same day in 1972, I saved my school dinner money for weeks to buy them

 

I remember when an LP was £3.49 and I used to get paid £2 for working all day Saturday. I also remember when ten No6 were 10p

 

Ah, Players No 6. The fags that ruined the lungs of a whole generation...

 

My dad's included...


Still, on a lighter note, I remember buying my first single, Ships in The Night, Bebop Deluxe for 45p

 

We used to buy No 10s or Sovereign they were cheaper, no6 were for the posh kids

 

We used to buy a penny single and a book of matches from Kens the corner shop

 

i didnt smoke but was sent ta the machine ta get my dads woodbine n weights he did give up eventually . Records i mainly listened to um on top of the pops or the radio , or round mates . My sister bought more than me . I was too bizzy saving for new bikes n a car

 

No 6 were posh?! What kind of deprived childhood did you have ? We used to buy them from those big silver fag machines outside of shops (usually chained to the wall so people didn't nick them).

 

£4.99? perhaps I'm not as old as you lot....

 

The silver fag machines, I remember those, we used to put washers in them to get our fags

 

I once pulled a bird from Wimbledon, not one of the rough bits from our estate, to impress her I bought 20 Peter Stuyvesant I think they cost about 35p I thought I was the bees knees

 

Now they were class!

 

My first LP was 17/6 if I remember correctly.
You could get 3 singles for £1 = 6/8 when I was serving in a record shop in 1964.

 

I used to get 10 bob for a Saturday in the motorcycle shop and another 10 bob from the lads there to get the fish an chips and all there condoms for the week , .The record shop in town would be shut when I finished.
The first record I ever bought was The Dave. Clark five ,All the pieces bits and pieces The first L P I ever bought was Santana ,don't know what they cost thoug