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Originally Posted by PenguinHead
Back then, without the internet, it was much harder to obtain unreleased stuff.
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I didn't feel it was really any harder; you just traded by mail. You hand wrote or typed your "list" & copied it & out it went to whoever asked for it. Plus you monitored the classifieds in the backs of the rock magazines, where you'd find dozens of Fleetwood Mac collectors selling goodies. Goldmine was a goldmine, too, as everyone knows, & the professional rock photographers used to advertise in Rolling Stone & other big magazines. In fact, in those days, getting a photos-for-sale catalog was a treat because often the seller would give entertaining descriptions of the photos (that was how you knew which ones you wanted), & usually would send a "sample," too. It was fun, them days (or maybe it was fun because I was a teenager). Plus, the band was actually still good back then -- that helped, too.