Now I'd had 1 cassette of his material compiled by Yazoo Records (and knew there was a second volume) but I was unaware that there was this much (and used it was as much as a new CD).
So it may have been overload, but I bought it (I think other multi-disc titles from this company, which largely deals in public domain recordings, retail for $18-25).
Stores that deal in used CDs could clear out those used bins (and help people make music discoveries) if they'd drop the used price to $6-8 instead of $8-11).
I typically buy DVDs in stores or online for $10-15 each (some of those are double features, or at least double discs including the supplements).
Hollywood knows that lowering the prices increases sales and interest.
And if you factor in all of the money for old music and movies that should've already lapsed into the public domain and price-fixing in the industry and major label payola keeping crap dominant on radio airways, it is no mystery as to why the record industry believes they are in the doldrums.
Truth be told, it was the burp of the baby boom that gave them false perceptions. I recently watched an episode of Tomorrow with Tom Snyder interviewing Bill Graham, Kim Fowley, Joan Jett, and others about the state of the (then current) 1977 music industry.
Bill Graham looked at the bottom line and said that acts were selling 5million units when in the 1960s, 500,000albums would've been a "hit".
So now that we are back down to the lower figures (Johnny Cash recently got a #1 DEBUT), it "must" be because talent does not exist. Not because the suits have no taste, had no taste, and haven't grown up.
Kim Fowley pointed out that Joan Jett (then in the Runaways) was famous in Japan. That in Japan, kids buy rock and roll and that adults leave it alone when they hit 20. In America, you had bands like The Eagles programmed for people who were 30.
Same as it ever was.
This was my first CD purchase as a senior in high school (1992).
Rolling Stone had reviewed three new Patton releases at the time, giving them 4 or 5 stars each. Anytime I found a new, unfamiliar artist (especially older music) I'd usually check him/her out.
Of course, all my friends were listening to Metallica's "Black Album" at the time, which isn't terrible, but it's nothing earth-shattering either.