Another great weekend of CD hunting landed a compilation of Blue Note tracks featuring this classic cut. As I was buying it a fellow customer in the charity shop, a very earnest young lady, acknowledged how cool CDs were but warned me that they only have a life of 20 years so I should make other copies. I didn't have the heart to tell her that the very CD I was buying was already 25 years old and that some of my collection's now 40 years old.
There seems to be this myth around CDs that they'll rot away and, whilst I've seen a few examples of what's known as 'disc rot' in the wild (less than five times I'm guessing...and I've probably looked at more than 10,000 CDs over the years), this is usually down to poor handling, storage and manufacture. Trust me, if CDs were going to become unusable it would have happened by now. Look after them, just as you would vinyl and they'll outlive all of us. Here endeth the lesson.
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