45 years ago today, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers released “Hard Promises” (our copy here). Their 4th album arrived about 19 months after the breakthrough hit LP “Damn the Torpedoes,” a longer gap than was intended, due to a pricing dispute between Tom and MCA Records, which insisted the new album be sold at their new so-called “superstar” list price of $9.98. Tom refused, threatening both withholding the master tapes —or— changing its title to “Eight Ninety-Eight,” represent
