{"id":2208,"date":"2009-06-11T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T17:02:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-14T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:49:53","slug":"greatest-hits-albums-you-ve-bought-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/greatest-hits-albums-you-ve-bought-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Hits Albums You&#8217;ve Bought Only Because There Wasn&#8217;t a Double A-Side Single or Greatest Hits EP Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/raspberries.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">In other words, &#8220;Go All the Way&#8221; and &#8220;Let&#8217;s Pretend.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The subject line says it all. Thanks to <strong>Townsman Mwall<\/strong> for suggesting the topic. In the digital download age this is no longer an issue, but growing up, when vinyl was the main mode of music delivery, we sometimes shelled out for a <strong>Greatest Hits<\/strong> or <strong>Best of&#8230;<\/strong> album by an artist we really wished had made available their two to four worthwhile songs on a less-expensive double A-side single or EP. <\/p>\n<p>What I ask of you is that you share actual purchases of this nature and not witty attempts at listing every possible 1-hit wonder with a <em>Greatest Hits<\/em> or <em>Best of&#8230;<\/em> album that you never bought or intended to buy. In other words, be real.<\/p>\n<p>The first such album that came to mind for me is pictured above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In other words, &#8220;Go All the Way&#8221; and &#8220;Let&#8217;s Pretend.&#8221; The subject line says it all. Thanks to Townsman Mwall for suggesting the topic. In the digital download age this is no longer an issue, but growing up, when vinyl was the main mode of music delivery, we sometimes shelled out for a Greatest Hits <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/greatest-hits-albums-you-ve-bought-only\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[206,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}