I didn’t like the music on commercial radio so…

I had to catch a train from the suburbs into a city import record store. Often they would not have what I wanted so I would put down a deposit for a vinyl record which would be ordered from overseas then I would get a phone call a week or two later to come pick it up.

It was expensive so whenever friend had a birthday I would buy a record we mutually wanted but make a cassette copy for myself first.