“Before the vinyl shortage is over, kid, they may have to make your Jethro Tull albums out of earwax.”

Shortages of vinyl, paper, gasoline and a variety of other substances already have hit the record industry hard, and the impact will be much greater in 1974, according to a variety of industry sources. However, the shortage is probably not severe enough to prevent the availability of hit records, though older records, and particularly classical and budget discs, will be harder to obtain.