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BiggieTembo 15th Mar 2014		Cassette Album New Order - Low-Life	I bought this in Woolworth's record department, Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK, in 1985. Other New Order and Joy Division cassettes were also released in similar box formats. The Joy Division boxes were lilac-coloured, if I remember rightly. I read somewhere on the internet that these boxes were made specially for sale in Woolworth's - something I cannot find any other concrete evidence for - but the pretentious design seems fitting for another one of Factory Records' marketing campaigns to get us to shell out our hard-earned for the same thing twice ;-) The transparent vellum inlay (of thick tracing paper) was printed so that the text on the back flap (the song titles and credits) could be read through the front flap. I didn't fold the whole thing out and scan it, for fear that the vellum would split along its spine...
BiggieTembo 14th Mar 2014		Cassette Album New Order - Brotherhood	Bought this in Boots the Chemist, Aberystwyth, Wales in 1986 - whilst skiving off from a school Geography trip.
BiggieTembo 14th Mar 2014		Cassette Album The Beatles - Rock 'N' Roll Music Volume 2	My VERY FIRST CASSETTE ever! I know this cassette like the back of my hand - which could be bought in all the Boots Chemist stores in the UK, on a special carousel promotional rack. As far as I can remember, they costed about £1.25 each. My MFP "1st issue" had a wrap-around cardboard cover, which enveloped the whole plastic cassette box - front, spine and back - and the tape was white plastic, like many of the other 80s EMI Beatles tape releases, not see-through as seen here. The original Rock N Roll Music was released as a double album in 1976, which confirms the date of "compiling", as mentioned below. It was re-packaged as two volumes for the Music For Pleasure budget EMI label in 1980, and released as two LPs as well. I bought mine in 1980 too, inspired after they showed "Help!" on BBC1 as a tribute, after the assassination of John Lennon. The type shown here is the more modern, see-through "second issue, when EMI re-jigged and modernised all their Beatles tapes (you can tell which age they are because the original cassette inlay cards didn't have bar-codes).

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