Readers Digest Classical Collections should be reissued

I've had great success stopping at EVERY at Goodwill  I pass while driving around.

Box sets of unmolested discs for a couple of bucks. You just have to sift through the Pat Boone and Wayne Newton albums to find a good one.

Last find was a Sibelius collection. Being more of a casual fan of Classical, the Readers Digest series are fantastic. Decent sonics along with great music on the cheap!

Nearly  as good as some of my "real"  RCA,Columbia, DG....period albums.

Many of the Readers Digest sets were pressed by RCA in their Indianapolis plant, and recorded by Kenneth Wilkinson who was a Decca engineer that recorded many of RCA's projects in Europe.

As a result the sound on many of them is superbe.

Twin Cities is Goodwill capital of the world .
All the Readers Digest albums I've see were ground to death
in someone's GE console tracking at 10 grams .

Not to rub it in but the 5 cassette version of the Readers Digest Light Classical Music is like new and "made exclusively for Readers Digest by RCA." Yippee! Tape is a natural medium. It breathes.

Ten years ago I got back into vinyl and immediately started buying records on the cheap. At St. Vincent DePaul's I found a Reader's Digest box set called "South of the Border" with a lot of Latin music. I pulled out a disk. It not only looked unworn, it gleamed like new. At home it proved to be a really well-played, recorded, and mastered set.

I soon came to realize that many of these subscription box sets seldom got played. I stumbled onto most of Time/Life's "Great Men of Music"series at a Goodwill. Each box (priced at $1) featured selected works of a great composer (e.g., Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Debussy, Brahms, Ravel, etc.), all the music culled from the RCA Living Stereo series performed by the great artists RCA had on contract in the '60s--Heifetz, Piatagorsky, Artur Rubinstein,.. I got them all (at least a dozen) for $1 ea. at a Goodwill.

Speaking of Reader's Digest records, I have the Acoustic Sounds 45 rpm reissue of "The Power of the Orchestra". It's labeled as a Living Stereo reissue, but I read somewhere that that title originated as a Reader's Digest product.