Original prices for LP albums

Hey, we used to go to the Nevele as a kid! I did not know the origin of the name. Nice trivia!

A lot of my records came from Cheap Thrills in New Brunswick, NJ in college. $5.99 sounds like a familiar price but can't remember exactly (1978).

I remember in the late 70s to early 80s a good deal was about $3.50 - $4.00 each for new LPs.

Best prices at Korvettes. Best selection at Discomat in NYC.
In 1984 I was paying $5.99 for a LP. But I would pay much more for an import...close to $20.

In the mid 80's most new releases came out at about $8.50 and I remember people older than me complaining about how expensive records had become and how thin and flimsy they were. I normally only bought on sale for $6.50-$6.99. Now I wish I'd bought a lot more.

EJ Korvette's in Douglaston, New York (northeast Queens) was my source for LP's. I used to spend a lot of time there just browsing the collections, which sometimes seemed endless. For three to five bucks you could buy almost anything. I think the first album I ever bought was CSNY Deja Vu (I still have it) when I was a sophomore at Cardozo High School in Bayside, and I probably bought a hundred albums at Korvette's between late 1972 and 1975. Wow, the memories suddenly seem so vivid..... It was a great place to buy records.