I don't think so George, I was visiting the US every year from 1974 for twenty years and it was never easy. You'd regularly hit stores and all the "Northern" had gone. I made money from Popcorn, Girly, Rock and even blues/doowop to make a living. If it had been easy I'd have gone every other month. Once or twice a year was fine. What happened of course is that Northern kept moving the goalposts so each trip there were new titles or styles of soul to pick up.