RIP Meat.
Somewhere in the archives of the CDC exists a short article regarding a music poll the editors did on "Best Album of 1977". In the article, the editors wrote that the poll was obviously fixed because some weird artist they'd never heard of won over records like Rumors and Running On Empty. At the time, you could not buy BOOH at the campus record store. They didn't carry it.
At the time, the record was a nothingburger in the US, despite success in Canada, UK, and Australia. It had been around for several months and the folks at Epic Records had all but given up on it.
But I'd bought BOOH while home in Stamford after hearing it on WNEW-FM, mostly due to Paradise and Phil Rizzuto. I brought it to Crandall C and played it enough to get everyone interested in stuffing the ballot box. Within a couple of weeks after the CDC article it was among the top selling albums on campus.
And that is how I helped Meat Loaf become the star he is
Funny aside... while we thought we were unique in stuffing the ballot box, some other dorm had a similar idea and managed to get Barbra Streisand's "Superman" album into the top 5.