Re: [ARSCLIST] creating access cd's

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/01/06, Tom Fine wrote:

> Second, here's a true story. My brother worked in an office building
> that faced Ground Zero. He and all his office mates made a successful
> escape and were uninjured on 9/11, but their office was never occupied
> again and all of the contents were condemned as hazardous material.
> Guess what he had in his office? A large pile of his CD's, which he
> listened to while he put in long hours. He got reimbursed just fine by
> the insurance company, but when he went to re-acquire the music, he
> found about 30% of the title were out of print! Including some that he
> really loved. Plus there were numerous assorted-tunes homebrew discs
> that would take a long time indeed to recreate (particularly if they
> included borrowed material). And there were a dozen or more CDR's full
> of MP3 that various people had given him over the years. As with most
> of us were with most things before 9/11, he was falsely confident that
> nothing would happen to his office so no problem to leave a large
> stash of personal property there. That story was the clincher for me
> -- no more original-issue CD's leave my house. Only copies. The net
> result is that the vast majority of my listening is to copies since I
> listen to music constantly at work and in the car.

A number of CDs and irreplaceable cassettes left my house in the company
of a burglar.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx