Vinyl Me Please...well, not anymore

By the way, you youngins’: In the early 1960’s a few of the major record labels had record clubs. I joined the Columbia Records club when I was 12 years old, and picked Johnny Horton’s Greatest Hits as my first 1 cent (!) album.

@slaw: What was the defect in your first copy of Joshua Loves Ruth? Mine was fine.

They were dead to me when they announced the elimination of Rock and Country "tracks" from their monthly offerings. They put out some truly great albums, like those of Iris DeMent, Rodney Crowell, Marty Stuart, Waylon Jennings, Townes Van Zandt, Billy Joe Shaver, Tammy Wynette, Sturgill Simpson, Buck Owens, Doug Sahm, and John Prine.