she felt an almost audible click in her head as she superimposed the face of the redhead over the face on record albums she still owned -- vinyl albums pressed in a year when nobody owned sony walkmen and the concept of the compact disc would have seemed like science fiction , record albums now packed away in cardboard boxes from the neighborhood liquor mart and stowed in some dusty attic alcove ; record albums with names like big brother and the holding company , cheap thrills , and pearl .