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LOST in the hazy memories of my youth is a vague recollection of buying vinyl records to play on our second-hand Pioneer turntable.

The music store I frequented, now long gone, was called Carousel, and the thing I remembered most about this pleasant, air-conditioned haven was that it had a listening booth where you could check out the songs on an album before you bought it.

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Most people who listen to music on MP3 players these days are probably too young to remember 45 rpm vinyl records. These precursors of CDs measured about seven inches in diameter and contained one song on each side and were played on phonographs. Unlike long-playing (LP) records that contained complete albums, 45s let you buy just one popular song.

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