All that you buy, beg, borrow or steal
Andrew Langmead has the punchline of the day, regarding the longevity of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon:
Then it suddenly occured to me how that album sold as well as it did. I think that most of the sales came from people who already had the album, but forgot.
It's funny because it's true:
- My parents had it on vinyl when I was a kid. Presumably it’s still around, but with no record player any more, this copy isn’t accessible to me any more.
- We got a copy on CD in the 80s, but who knows what happened to that version.
- I got a remasted CD version in high school in the 90s, but seem to have lost it at college — no idea what happened to that one, which is too bad, as that one had a fancy box cover, some postcard artwork inserts, etc.
- A few months ago I re-bought it when it came out on iTunes Plus, then burned a copy and put the digital version on two different computers and two different iPods so that it’ll be harder to lose.
With any luck, that should be the last copy I need to buy.
For a while anyway. :-)
