So later today (it's currently 2:30AM-ish), Neil Young is finally releasing an album that he recorded and shelved in the mid-1970's. Would it be bordering on a mortal sin, since it's not a re-issue .... and hugely offensive, slap in the face-wise, to my treasured record collection .... to purchase it (at least initially) on anything but a vinyl record format? I'm thinking that it most certainly would be.
Hell I've even been considering not making the purchase since I've been so disappointed in his last few releases ..... BUT, as I have to keep reminding myself: THIS IS FROM THE 70's!!! This is from his, classical terrifical period!! A era of which I am a Neil Young vinyl completeist.
I'm reminded of one potential exception to all this hoopla ..... NY released a single disc vinyl record of new material three or four years ago that I didn't realize had a $37 price tag on it until I was at the cash register with my debit card in mid-run. I was like floating in a dream state pondering new Neil sounds and then suddenly jolted back to reality: "Huh, say what? You said $37 for what?....."
I'm not really a high price tag kind of a collector. Though I did purchase a Warren Zevon bootleg for $50 recently.
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