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Guilty Pleasure recording?

I will date myself by this, and hate to admit to it, but one of the reasons that I love getting into vinyl now, is that there is some music that is not available digitally. I wish I could say I was talking about some legendary, sublime classic recording of a great orchestral performace, but instead in this instance I am talking about bad 80's rock.

Right now I am listening to my guilty pleasure record: The Producers "You Make the Heat". No one ever likes it as much as I do when I play it for them. Some have heard "She Shiela", but usually they have not heard the album before, and don't care to again. But I love it.

Anyone have bad, guilty pleasure records, that are not available digitally, probably because there is no demand?
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My guiltiest pleasure is listening to the CRIK Fm The Lynx Super 70's internet radio station.

Here you will hear all the guiltiest AM radio pop pleasures from the seventies that you probably haven't heard since for over thirty years in fidelity that far surpasses anything you might have heard back in the day.

WARNING: if you cannot handle "The Partridge Family", Abba and Barry Manilow just to name a few, please, please stay clear!

On the other hand, your system may just be so good these days that even this sugar coated pop candy sounds great.
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Kjweisner,

The PFA was also one of the first recordings I ever purchased on my own. It was on 8 track however but I believe the little $25 red mono player I owned may have been an Ampex as well.

I graduated to cassette shortly thereafter followed by $200 SAnyo am/fm/phono/cassette integrated system shortly after that as well. That was a huge investment in music for a teenage kid back in the early 70's.

I own no funky colored vehicles however (so far).
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Playing on Crik Fm The Lnyx Super 70's this very moment as I speak;

Reunion - "Life Is A Rock, But the Radio Rolled Me"

Guilty as charged......
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The Three Dog Night hits all are classics and great works of pop/rock art. Nobody should feel guilty appreciating them.

There are a lot of great tunes out there by acts that perhaps could not assemble a single great accompanying album and hence got the cold shoulder from the all knowing and way all too cool "rock music critics" in the day.

Finding these and appreciating the one off pop/rock classics on a good sounding system can be extremely rewarding.

A lot of these tunes are just plain FUN, something many music critics have tended to not give much credit for over the years.
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Milla Jojovich

I used to think this a guilty pleasure, then realized that it was actually quite good and others thought so as well.
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