Readers Digest Classical Collections should be reissued

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.

Thank you thank you for this heads up. Regretfully I just passed on a readers box set this last weekend at my local DAV. It was in great shape but because it said Readers Digest I foolishly did not even give it a chance. 

as far as i know, the festival in light classical music, the Beethoven Cycle with Rene Leibowitz, and I believe their is one more from this era from  the late fifties and early sixties that are the ones to have.  they are true Decca recordings.  many of the Readers Digest Box sets are in Mono so you have to look for the ones that say cyclophonic miracle sound. on the records they actually say "stereophonic" on the records.  These are for all intensive purposes Living Stereo recordings.  I had a hard time finding a stereophonic copy.  Most I see are mono.  Pomp and Circumstance and Night on Bald Mountain on this album is amazing.  It was released by Chesky on an lp called Sir Adrian Boult Concert favorites on 180 gram vinyl by RTI.  It is rare and I have only seen a few copies.  It is amazing and just as good as the Ballet on Soria.  A true show off your system record.