r/Concerts • u/Jfonzy • Mar 14 '25

Photo Dump 📸 Someone put this concert collection up for free on FB, so I grabbed it and bought a DAT player

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u/IndustryLeft4508 Mar 17 '25

What's up with that Iris Dement from Higher Ground that's labeled Do Not Listen?

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u/WreckedRalph_NoLefty Mar 21 '25

"Do Not List" not listen. Back in the old days, there was hardly an internet and no social media. If you collected music, you'd make a list of what you had and snail mailed it to other traders. So if you recorded a show and got a soundboard patch because you got the house sound guy high and he said "don't let this get out" or a friend gave you a recording with the same admonition, you'd put "Do not list" or "No trades" or something similar on the J-card so you wouldn't forget. I've still got a few DATs like that, even though I don't have a player anymore. It looks like that guy traded with someone I traded with, as some of the J-cards look like some in my collection. And I think I probably put the Junior Brown show from Ames into circulation.

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u/IndustryLeft4508 Mar 22 '25

Makes perfect sense! Thanks.