source: http://www.fishpiss.com/archives/128 - no idea how trustworthy it is, but it seems good. Another source says 110 million for 1922, so it's probably fairly close.

And lest we forget Victrolas and records were sold in furniture stores. Furniture stores! About as lifestyle as it gets, in the 'lifestyle section of the paper' way the author's bitching about.

>because, for the most part, when you wanted to listen to
>music... someone in the house had to actually get an
>instrument and PLAY it. Music wasn't this thing that came from
>record companies... it was in real life.

on the other hand, ignoring records, there was still a strong popular music economy based around vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley... people weren't only singing the Child ballads that their grandparents had brought over with them, they were buying the sheet music published by major corporations and pushed on them by marketing schemes and public media and entertainment conglomerates.

>But yeah, I don't think that's how the author intended it.

The more I think about it the less idea I have of how he meant it to be taken.