I would often pick up records cheap at discounted prices from department stores, as well as The Wherehouse, Licorice Pizza, Record Bar, Music Plus, even Wallach's Music City, though at Wallach's their prices tended to be list (I still have some originally bought albums from Wallach's with stickers that have "$5.98" list price on them). had some vinyl in the late 60's/early 70's. Even some supermarket chains like Stater Bros. I remember stores like JCPenney's, Zody's, White Front, Two Guys, Harris', Sage's, Fedco, etc. Vinyl wasn't just sold in record stores but many department stores and drugstores carried vinyl albums too. But pricing was varied.there were so many more stores that sold albums in those days. In the early 70's I recall most vinyl record albums were between $2.99 to $3.99 (discounted prices), with retail prices being $4.98 to $5.98 list on single discs, a tad more on double-disc albums. This kind of creeping increase drove us crazy as we used a price averaging system to arrive at prices to sell to retailers. Then SO prefixes moved to $7.98's before ST, SW. Later when they crept up to become $6.98's, the SO titles had their wholesales raised higher than the costs of the others, but remained $6.98's for a while. That is, when this album was released ST, SW, and other Capitol prefixes were $5.98 lists (with different wholesales). The labels had a number of ways to increase prices: Raising the wholesale without changing the list moving individual titles from one list to another raising an entire prefix/series from one list to another, ect.Ībbey Road not only came out as a $6.98 list, but the SO prefix always stayed at a higher wholesale cost relative to other prefixes within the list. There are different wholesale costs for the various prefixes, even though they fall within the same list price. It's not by accident that there are several prefix/series for some lists here. Keep in mind, these are just list prices, and list prices only amount to part of the entire pricing picture. These Elektra prices were from 1970, before WEA was born.
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