These things were the 'fremium apps' of the time, 'apps' for the hi-fi. Now the odd thing is that I bought many thousands of records, only in 12" or (rare) 10"

These things were the 'fremium apps' of the time, 'apps' for the hi-fi. Now the odd thing is that I bought many thousands of records, only in 12" or (rare) 10" size. Along the way I collected maybe three 7" singles, 10-20 photo colour discs, 50-100 coloured/transparent discs and precisely zero flexidiscs. To me they were not an incentive to buy a magazine or box of cereal, they had zero relevance to the music I was collecting. Why was this? Probably CD buyer remorse had something to do with it. A pressing of 1000 'white label' by the artist would be pure music, by the time it made it to CD it would have been remixed and licensed to a bigger label - a major label, yikes! So for my ears, CD was always inferior. Then there was the flexidisc - the music would be the Justin Beiber/Hanson grade stuff of the day, i.e. the stuff made by labels not artists. I think this article cherry picks the good from the bad, flexidiscs were bad, with as much appeal as the 99% of 'apps' you can get for your phone today.