I’ve just been out and bought Erasure’s Hits collection. Now, I own all the original albums, so I am not entirely sure why I went and bought it. Still, I now own the CD, so it can sit on the shelf alongside all the others, and I will take pride in the fact that my Erasure album collection is complete.
Phil Gyford posted an interesting question about CDs and what would happen if they were all stolen. I have ripped a good number of my CDs, but I would miss the originals if I didn’t have them. There appears to be more value in holding an original CD case with the lyrics, photographs and the notes. I would have to try to replace a good number of them because I would miss them. A little like software, it’s good to have all the originals just in case something happens.