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| Cassette with Grateful Dead Tunes |
What an amazing marketing strategy and to think this came from the stereotypical "hippie" band at a time when there was no Internet, no smart phones, no cable television, and the most popular recording would later lead to Richard Nixon resigning from his post as the President of the United States.
Even better, the band never played the same set of music at any one show creating a constant stream of people sharing recordings of live music that were highly unique. This was the epitome of social sharing in a time when recording music wasn't easy and sharing a cassette tape required an in-person exchange. Imagine if Soundcloud and Facebook were available way back in the seventies?
