Rate Your Music score: 2.77 out of 5!
I have a pretty decent record collection, and I try to keep used records from getting ruined even worse than they already were when I found them. And sometimes, I literally found them - as in laying around somewhere. My priority isn't strictly collecting so much as building a quality media project, for I was a broadcaster. I'm a working-class guy, and I can't afford to collect every record ever made.
A record is really just a cheap plastic disc. Yet a good record can produce great audio.
But not if some clown at the post office snaps it in half. And that's where this lost hit by the Cover Girls comes in.
The narrator of this video that appeared on YouTube famously described ordering a rare 12-inch record of this lost hit - along with a Janet Jackson disc - and how it arrived in the mail broken in two...
One record cost $42. The other was $100. That doesn't even include shipping. And the post office smashed them both.
That record is going to skip more than just a beat!
That's why we very, very, very rarely ordered records through the mail. I think we ordered an LP from a record club once, but I can't remember getting any other actual records through the mail. If I had primarily collected rare Japanese imports of Cover Girls records like the star of that video did, I might not have had a choice.
We can't go wrong - but sometimes the postal service does!
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