Janskeet said:
I think youtube has improved recently, even in standard quality I think the videos look pretty good. So were music videos like Thriller recorded in 35mm and then broadcast in analog on cable networks back then and that was the only way of seeing them? Didn't they used to attach music videos to CDS for awhile? Apparently they had video in CD quality, since they were short they could fit on a cd, I never bought CDs much so I don't know. What about music videos sold on DVD? I have never seen a music video sold on DVD.

That stuff didn't start happening till the mid-90s - before tehn you bought your music on a vinyl or CD and you watched videos on TV. There was no internet, no 'enhanced' CDs with videos on the disc etc, none of that.