Ex-Ticketmaster CEO blames vinyl album lengths on TikTok

I totally get you, but saying that, I recently managed to snag three tix for the London Coliseum production of Spirited Away (based on the Studio Ghibli animation.)

There was a £3.75 processing fee per ticket on top of the actual ticket price, for the service of my bank transferring the money to their bank (zero transaction cost) and them sending an e-ticket to my mobile phone.

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The Tubes put that message up front on The Completion Backward Principle:

As I mentioned near the close of the last record, this record you are now playing is another example of the completion backward principle. If you can possibly manage the time, please play both sides at one meeting

Slave to the radio, slave to the radio, slave to the radio
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Slave to the radio, wait till they forget you though, slave to the radio
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Ah yes! There you go! Yes like that! Ha

The first and only secret track I experienced was Queen’s Made In Heaven.

I bought the CD the day it was available and put it on in the living room. I followed along with the track listing and then a few seconds after the last song track 13 started. It was 22 minutes of mostly instrument stuff with Freddie’s voice mixed in, very cool.

I haven’t listened to it in a while, I think I’ll dig out and give it a spin.

The oddest thing I’ve ever seen happen at the end of a record was J Giels Showtine (recorded in my backyard in Detroit) Peter Wolf does a 5 minute intro to Love Stinks and the at then climax when he shouts Loooove Stinks you have to flip the album for the song. Never understood why they didn’t shuffle a song to get the entire song on one side.

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