I cant picture that.
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There you go 
Basically Indiana opened up the CBS/Sony plant in 1984 (edit).
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So…there’s a problem then. Born in the USA was a 1984 release, famously co-opted by the Reagan campaign despite the diametrically opposed sentiments of the lyrics and Springsteen’s personal politics.
My recollection is a late Spring release, I was finishing high school that year right about then.
I was thinking that. Maybe it’s the Single he is referring to as that was the third track of the album.
Edit: My mistake it says 1984, not sure why I had put 85.
First single was “Dancing in the Dark”, “Pink Cadillac” was the reverse. Remember that vividly from the first time I heard it on the radio, one of those visceral moments that can happen when we are young with music. The record company quite cynically released “Born in the USA” as a single just before the election.
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Was the album anyhow, it’s here on classic rock. Once they had the plant there and a record with that title it was probably planned but always cool how circumstances like this arise.
Sort of forgot that that was the dawn of CDs, I think of it as just a few years later. I bought my first CD player in September 1987, by which time they were everywhere, but I bought Born in the USA on vinyl in the summer of 1984.
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Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms was apparently the first CD single.
But I don’t know if it’s true.
When I read I a have a tendency to consciously processes it…trying to paraphrase to make sure I understand the idea being conveyed. This tends to produce just complete blankness when reading about a visual description of a scene. I recognize them as words, and as a coherent sentence but they mean nothing at all to me.
There are several explanations I’ve told myself for this. My career has involved a LOT of technical reading and processing the written word in that way is critical for that sort of task. I have long assumed I actively taught myself how to read this way some time long ago, likely when I was in grad school, and cannot turn it off when I read for recreation. I’ve also considered that this sort of writing tends to be a crutch for bad writers trying to flesh out a scene and so I’ve subconsciously decided it tends to be irrelevant to a plot of a book and skim over it.
I do wonder though if it isnt just a brain wiring thing that he’s led me to being good at technical reading and less so for things that are supposed to be evocative, like picturing a scene in your head is supposed to be.
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I think I’m literally the opposite, I find it easier to conjure up a visual image of a described place or scene, but anything dry or technical induces near-panic that I have no idea what is going on 
The album was a year or two later than Born in the USA, but I don’t really recall seeing CD singles much, ever. So it may be true as an oddity.
I believe that, they were little discs. I had one or two. didn’t work well in automatic loaders but in the hand-loaded machines they did fine.
I was late to the party with CD’s, don’t think I had one until 88/89. was still listening to cassettes in that time.
I was exactly the same with Biochem. In undergrad it felt so empty, the biggest waste of my time I’d ever had. It was really little more than rote memorization - this electron goes here, then this one goes here. Why? Because that’s what the book says.
I then did some applied Biochem classes in grad school and it was a different world. It was the same stuff, but put in the context of changes that were happening at the physiological level. All of a sudden you understood why reactions needed to happen and that made it make sense for why the pathway progressed the way it did. There was meaning to what in the past had just been an image I’d stored in my brain
Bit late to all this. Okay so you all more clued up than I explain this:
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I can see things in my minds eye with exquisite detail, imaginary or memory. I can recreate a scene from the past or some fantasy in vivid detail.
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I cannot remember what I have for breakfast most days.
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I cannot remember names or birthdays to save my life.
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I can remember random dates and say, ‘ah, 5 years ago on this day I was at this place doing that.’
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A smell can trigger memory vividly as if it had just happened.
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I dream vividly and often and can remember a few dreams from years ago.
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When I do exams, tests or simply need to come up with info it’s recalls in my head as a voice giving me the answer
(not always, if I’ve read it or heard it before it tends to stick… somewhere)
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Same.
I’ve been annoyed with some adaptations due to this
At 14 yrs old this was the first album i ever bought for myself back in 85.
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I was still listening to tapes.
The first CD I can remember buying was a german import of the Leveller’s live album ‘See nothing, hear nothing, do something’ - bought off a mate, but it was actually his big brother’s. The year was probably 1995.
I’m not sure what the first one I bought it a shop was, probably Nevermind, but that would have been 96 or 97.
Before then I was mostly taping cds that I borrowed off friends or from the library.
I also had a record player, so had a really weird vinyl collection of things I’d picked up at jumble sales.
by 1996 I had my first CD player in my MGB, was a Pioneer I think. skipped when I drove over a pothole. oh, if I knew then what I know now.
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