Three days after I posted my reflections on Trump’s Cabinet, Brexit voters, and Rolling Stone’s top twenty albums of all time on my blog, this appeared on Stereogum. Another petrifying coincidence.
“The Beatles finish 2017 [sic!] with the top two selling vinyl LPs of the year: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (72,000 — powered in large part by the album’s deluxe anniversary reissue in 2017) and Abbey Road (66,000). The soundtrack Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is the third biggest with 62,000.”
Trump defends his “I am a stable genius” tweet at Camp David, surrounded by loyal toadies. All white, all but one male, and almost all past retirement age (Paul Ryan was just born old). And still partying like there’s no tomorrow.