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In 1973, a box of cornflakes cost 25 cents (www.foodtimeline.org). Nowadays, the same box of cornflakes (hopefully one that wasn’t made in 1973) would set you back $3 – a 1200% increase. An AMC Javelin car cost about $3000 new in 1973, I found the same car today online selling for $19,000. Pink Floyd could afford a new car, football team, caviar, a Lear jet and the odd box of cornflakes – by this stage of their career they were regularly selling out stadiums as they toured their latest album, “A Dark Side of the Moon”. “Money”, with it’s distinctive bass line and tell-tale cash register and coin-clinking sound effects (these are genuine) is almost a little too commercialized for Pink Floyd, who in 1975 would parody the money-grabbing music industry with “Have a Cigar“.
