And the album art. I'm of an age where part of the fun of buying an album (pop music) was the crazy art on the cover, which just doesn't squeeze down to a 3" square very well.

And pulling the brand-new, glossy-black disc out of the sleeve, looking across the surface for scratches -- like the surface of a whole new ocean about to transport you to who knows where?

It's easy to rhapsodize.

O..O
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