It's david beckams birthday tomorrow, it wasn't about affording albums, only the students at the teacher training college bought LPs!!! we bought 45s and numbered them in our record box and lent them to mates who never gave them back grrrrrr
There is some debate, but generally it seems to refer to impotence, particularly in the line, "Love me, like you tried before" and of course if he left all she had left was her wedding band.
Well as a man you would say that ! seriously that is very interesting, I had wondered if it meant one or the other of those things but thought the topic too risque for its day to be that.