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Recording artists still refer to their upcoming albums (sometimes even to their new record) even though new LPs are only pressed once in a blue moon and then for collectors. Likewise, artists still have gold and platinum records. (True, record can come from the verb “to record”, but everybody has the same round black plasticky image in their mind when you say record.)
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“Album,” OTOH, simply means: