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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2022 16:45:22 GMT
About €142 with shipping (€135 the record itself). Which site was that again? I'm still very torn.
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Post by SmoothGangsta on Nov 26, 2022 16:47:26 GMT
I paid 98 quid in total.
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Post by respect77 on Nov 26, 2022 16:55:52 GMT
About €142 with shipping (€135 the record itself). Which site was that again? I'm still very torn. It was a Hungarian one called rocks.hu.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2022 6:59:40 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Nov 27, 2022 10:36:45 GMT
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Post by MattyJam on Nov 27, 2022 11:03:48 GMT
What a piece of history that letter is. Amazing they literally had to beg rock radio to play a black artist. It's also funny how the roles have kind of reversed. It'd be rock artists begging to get commercial exposure in 2022 on predominantly black Hip-Hop/rap/R&B/pop radio. When was the last time you heard a new rock band on the radio?
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Post by respect77 on Nov 27, 2022 11:39:49 GMT
Yeah, it's amazing how they had to emphasize Beat It and Van Halen to get exposure. That's also why the Paul McCartney duet was selected as the first single from the album. It's easy to forget that even in the 80 music was segregated. Not by law any more, but it still was. When MJ was told by MTV that they wouldn't play Billie Jean because they were a rock channel, "rock" was a thinly veiled code for "music by white people for white people". This article was written for the 30th anniversary of Thriller but it's really great at showing all the obstacles MJ had to face at the time and how Thriller broke down those racial barriers: www.billboard.com/music/music-news/michael-jacksons-thriller-at-30-how-one-album-changed-the-world-473949/This is also the reason why initially Prince (or his label) felt the need to promote himself as half-white (half-Italian). People today don't realize how in the 80s black artists still had to do these little tricks to be accepted by white media. Thriller was a huge force in breaking down those barriers and the article above reflects on that very well.
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Post by MattyJam on Nov 27, 2022 12:07:34 GMT
Yeah, it's amazing how they had to emphasize Beat It and Van Halen to get exposure. That's also why the Paul McCartney duet was selected as the first single from the album. It's easy to forget that even in the 80 music was segregated. Not by law any more, but it still was. When MJ was told by MTV that they wouldn't play Billie Jean because they were a rock channel, "rock" was a thinly veiled code for "music by white people for white people". This article was written for the 30th anniversary of Thriller but it's really great at showing all the obstacles MJ had to face at the time and how Thriller broke down those racial barriers: www.billboard.com/music/music-news/michael-jacksons-thriller-at-30-how-one-album-changed-the-world-473949/This is also the reason why initially Prince (or his label) felt the need to promote himself as half-white (half-Italian). People today don't realize how in the 80s black artists still had to do these little tricks to be accepted by white media. Thriller was a huge force in breaking down those barriers and the article above reflects on that very well. And now you have the likes of Bieber and Timberlake doing all they can to dress and sound black. Human beings are weird.
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Post by respect77 on Nov 27, 2022 14:58:57 GMT
#2 on pure sales.
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Post by aazzaabb on Nov 27, 2022 19:35:45 GMT
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Post by aazzaabb on Nov 27, 2022 19:38:41 GMT
That’s a piece of history right there. It’s the type of thing that would be included in a book for a deluxe set if it was any other legacy artist.
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Post by butterflies2 on Nov 28, 2022 6:00:17 GMT
I’m seeing the Thriller documentary this week. Anyone else planning to?
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Post by respect77 on Nov 28, 2022 14:38:25 GMT
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Post by respect77 on Nov 28, 2022 19:51:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2022 21:07:41 GMT
Go team
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