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TOYSREVIL Pop-Up Greatest Hits Vol.1

TOYSREVIL POP-UP TAPES

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Since my earlier feature, the TOYSREVIL POP-UP @ Katong Square Lifestyle & Vintage Market has since come and gone, along with my "decision" to retire "cassette tapes" from my line-up off offerings, at least for the immediate future. And with that I do have to say that there had been multiple "interests" for the tapes, but less takers... and I wonder what was going through their thought processes?

A customer shared (paraphrased): "(We) buy these not to listen to it, but to "collect" them ..." and I couldn't have said it better myself!



The selection offered this time around were each priced at SG$5 (Previous pop-up's was $15), as these were legitimate "bootlegs" from back in my youth!

And while I no longer have memories of WHERE I physically bought them from, what stayed with me were the simple words; "3 Tapes for $5", and for a teenage kid with near-zero spending ability, they were near "golden words"!











My music journey started out by recording tracks off the local radio, where I would wait for know the song titles to be mentioned, and as importantly the band/group/singer(s), so I could hunt for their songs, which most times were available as pre-recorded "compilations" at a record shop near my school then.

Finding these bootlegged music tapes allowed me the opportunity to listen to their entire line-up of songs (from their entire album), with the limited funds I could save up.









Remembering the days of being dependant on physical sources of information, such as dedicated magazines such as "Smash Hits" and "Number One", in an era of no internet, at least not in my life in the 80s (LOL)! And honestly "word of mouth" was a tricky premise, because wrong pronunciations might lead one down wild goose chases, unless record stores were patient enough to entertain a teenager's vague questions hahahaha

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