it's funny - I'm reading a book on the history of Melody Maker and on page
245 it says
"'Album Sales Slump, Blank Tapes Boom' reported Melody Maker on October 6
[1979] in a news story which explained that sales of singles were rising
but album sales had seen a heavy decline. The blame was pinned down on the
growth of home taping, which accounted for a 38 per cent increase in the
sale of blank tapes in the first quarter of 1979. Total sales of cassettes
in 1979 were expected to be 60 million."
Then later, the author cited again [some time in the 80's] the increase of
tape sales and decrease of album sales blaming high unemployment rates.
Sound familiar?
MEK
