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Word: diskmen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with audio-manic items. Frey's firm has sold 4,200,000 records in the past four years, grossed $12 million. Customers for Frey's cacophony are children, camera fans who want authentic background sound for their home movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something to prove to everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Noise Merchant | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

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