Island Inners
When I was checking out my old copy of Marianne Faithfull's "Broken English" I was inevitably confronted by the 1980s inner-liner adverts for the budget Island classics series. It surprised me how large these records loomed.
Back in the day when pocket-money was tight they were very affordable ($6) and widely available. That's one things at which CDs have been good, there must be far less quality music which is deleted. It used to be very hard to get hold of even the most mundane old records.
A remarkably high number of these records have passed through my collection, the only ones which haven't being the Robert Palmer, Cat Stevens, Mott and Traffic releases. (sighs) Island, what a superb label!