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The Cars = The Elektra Years | 1978 - 1987 6 LPs Box Set

Sold Date: June 26, 2020
Start Date: June 19, 2020
Final Price: $71.00 (USD)
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The Complete Elektra Albums Box features all six of studio albums the band’s original fivemembers – Ric Ocasek, the late Benjamin Orr, Greg Hawkes, Elliot Easton andDavid Robinson – released on the Elektra Records label. From their eponymousdebut long-player of 1978, through Candy-O (1979), Panorama (1980), ShakeIt Up (1981) and Heartbeat City (1984) to DoorTo Door (1987), this set brings together records that have accumulatedsales of more than 23 million copies in the United States alone. Each album ispeppered with hits, including The Cars’ debut single Just What I Need whichmade the US top 40, Let’s GoShake It UpMagicDrive and YouMight Think (which, incidentally, won MTV’s first-ever Video Of TheYear award in 1984). This is a BRAND NEW box set. The records were NEVER played.