Word: discs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...released Rockin', in an effort not only to sum up all these facets of Edmunds' career, but to do so with a "live" recording, a la Bruce Springsteen, Edmunds' labelmate and fellow retro-rocker. Of course, since Edmunds is a lesser star, Columbia has allotted him only one disc instead of five to encapsulate his long career, but surely the idea is the same...
...best examples of this triumph of form over substance are "Big in America," just released as a single on a hamburger-shaped disc, and "Was It You?," which name-drops controversial topics as if in a shopping list. "The bullets and the hatred, was it you?/The famine and the genital disease, was it you?" is the strongest Statement the Stranglers can muster in this song--and on this album...
...comparison shopping revealed that the Coop had the best prices, with the album or tape going for $22.95, and the compact disc selling for $38.95. Price runner-up Strawberries sold the album for $22.99 and the compact disc for $39.99. Newbury Street had the highest prices with $23 being asked for the album and $45 for the compact disc...
Spinrad's estimate may be conservative. Corporations and national research organizations around the world are now spending billions of dollars to harness the new optical technology. The first fruits of their efforts are already apparent in such conveniences as fiber-optic telephone lines, laser printers, hot-selling compact disc players, credit cards bearing holograms, and laser price-tag scanners in supermarkets. Says Thomas Hartwick, head of TRW's Electro-Optics Research Center, near Los Angeles: "Every area that light touches will see technology advance by several generations...
Light is about to assume tremendous importance as a data-storage tool. The most visible example of that capacity is the audio compact disc, introduced commercially in 1983. More than 50 million CDs and 1.8 million players will be sold this year, generating total revenues of more than $1 billion. CD sales have been increasing fourfold each year, helping to send LP record sales into decline. A CD stores music in digital form in some 15 billion microscopic pits on its aluminum surface. As the CD spins inside its player at up to 500 r.p.m., a laser scans the pits...