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You've bought a greatest hits package because it was
baited with two tracks that weren’t available anywhere else.
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You have anything by Elvis Presley that is not a
compilation album.
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You downloaded Radiohead’s In Rainbows only to
buy the store version two months later.
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You continue to buy albums from bands you no longer
like because you don't want an incomplete catalogue.
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You bought Milli Vanilli's Girl You Know It's True
at any point after they gave back their Grammy.
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You have more than one copy of the same album because
of slightly different art work.
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You bought The Beatles’ 1 just to have the
remixed tracks and their EP collection for the mono/stereo mixes,
you own more than three copies of "White Album" and you've created
your own single-disc version, and you have all their Christmas
singles.
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You have Morton Downey Jr. Sings.
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You buy albums of people you don't really like just
to "round out" your collection.
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You have a preferred bootleg copy of The Beach Boys'
Smile.
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You file your soundtrack albums by the director's
name.
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You have every ABBA album and you've made your own
collection of the non-hits.
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You have both the original and the "deluxe" editions
of any album, sometimes buying them at the same time.
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You bought the Digipaks of the Peter Gabriel reissues
because they were individually numbered.
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You own Tower of Power’s entire catalogue.
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You have Buckner and Garcia's Pac-Man Fever
and the WWF's The Wrestling Album from the 80s and like more
than two tracks from each.
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You've made a compilation of B-sides and soundtrack
cuts of any artist.
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You own Michael Nesmith’s soundtrack for Timerider.
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You've replaced your entire catalog of a particular
artist with reissues.
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You have the Ben Folds internet-only EP releases.
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You bought Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind” Princess
Diana single because it was produced by George Martin.
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You have both As Nasty as the Wanna Be and
As Clean as They Wanna Be by 2-Live Crew.
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You bought the three disc Dylan collection
just for the packaging.
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You have more than one cast album of the same
musical.
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You have bought Christmas with the Chipmunks
more than three times.
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You own anything by John Entwistle beyond a greatest
hits.
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You sought out Paul McCartney’s Fireman and
Thrillington releases.
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You buy CDs out of the Sundazed catalogue
based on the covers.
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You have Van Morrison's Payin' Dues and it is
your favorite of his releases.
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You don’t buy greatest hits albums because you’d
rather have the complete albums as they were intended by the artist,
or you have every album by an artist and use them to burn your own
greatest hits.
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You have Prince's Crystal Ball, and you file
The Time's Ice Cream Castle after Purple Rain.
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You kept your original copy of 1988’s Brian Wilson
because the vocal mixes were different on the reissue, and you buy
any album by any artist if Brian Wilson is singing back up vocals.
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You own more than one live Ringo Starr album.
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You have tribute albums for artists you don't have in
your collection.
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You download every track released online by They
Might Be Giants and burn them to CD.
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You will buy a soundtrack to complete an artist's
collection.
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You bought Slint's album Spiderland because
Will Oldham took the cover photograph.
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You have The Velvet Underground's box set Peel
Slowly and See as well as their separate albums.
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You have any Violent Femmes album beyond their first
one or anything by The Knack beyond their first two.
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You own Del Shannon’s Rock On because it was
produced by Jeff Lynne.
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You made sure your copy of R.E.M.'s Green was
the one with the 4s written over the Rs.
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You burned CDs of music from the computer game The
Sims.
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You have at least twenty albums you've never heard
once.
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You don't own Michael Jackson's Thriller.
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You own anything by Big Star.