Originally Posted by stvn758: “Brothers In Arms, I'm trying to remember if I bought that first time around, I was around at the dawn of the CD age.”
Quote: “Compact disc players had been available since 1982, but their uptake had been limited mainly to classical music fans, with rock labels slow to recognise the potential of the longer playing time and superior audio quality. Brothers in Arms, with its clean, precise production, was the perfect advert for CD – it was also the first album to be recorded entirely digitally – and it became the default demonstration disc used by shops to persuade customers to spring for a CD player. It didn't take long for the record companies to realise the CD wasn't just a means to sell new music at a higher price than before. By reissuing back catalogues with the promise of perfect sound for ever, they could persuade fans to shell out all over again for albums they already owned. The era of label gluttony had begun.”
