The 1001 Albums Challenge # 17: The Yardbirds – “The Yardbirds” (aka 'Roger The Engineer')
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I bought a 20 Smash Hits-type compilation of The Yardbirds for $2 on cassette tape (to clarify – this was when I was about 13 and I bough tapes regularly and they were $14-20 usually). Sometimes I’d get a $10 bargain tape or for $5-$10, but $2 was the cheapest – ever. That seems comical now (you’d be doing pretty well to make $2 selling any cassette tap…
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