How much were vinyl records selling for?

I worked in a record store in 1978 and list price for a single LP was $8.98; my store sold that lp for $5.49. CD's were introduced in 1982 with a list price of something like $15.98 or $16.98. Can't tell you what they sold for, 'coz I didn't get a CD player until the early 90's.

I do remember killing some time in a mall in Minneapolis (not the Mall of America) and stopping in to a stereo shop there when CD's were new. The salesman played 'Dark Side of the Moon' on a Sony CDP and it was amazing how you could stop and start the music with a touch of a button on the remote. We now take it for granted, but lp's never did that. The sound quality on that Sony was crap, BTW.

around $4.99 or so

In the late 70's the big record store chains (National Record Mart, MusicLand, The Record Theater, etc) the LIST price was around $6.99 to $7.99. At K-Mart, Woolworths or Eckerds or similiar, maybe sometimes $4.99 or $5.99. Then there were "cutouts" for sometimes $2.99 and $3.99, Then in the early or mid '80's came "the nice price" stickered pressings, usually for $4.99 or $5.99. I remember regular records, regular price in Tower Records in late '80's going for $7.99 or $8.99. Classical Boxed sets higher of course.

The art and tooling for Lp production far exceeds that for CD. The price for CDs went to ~$15 at startup. A straight in your face rip-off. A real big question is why Beatles and Stones CDs go for $18 a pop now. Wanton greed. Easy a pie run them off the mill production just reaping in the bucks. I can see why Mr Jackson needs that income. But why Mick and the boys? Nasty.

/rant off

Hey, how about maxell reel to reel tapes, how much were they going for ?