>>Marc Wilson  writes:
>>
>>> I have around 3-400 albums.  There are others I'd like, but I don't
>>> find enough new stuff I like to spend what I spent on the system.

Hell. Respect. Mike Rutherford is a local villager, a near neighbour who 
makes equipment for a pop group Genesis. At 'The Farm', Genesis's home 
base, he has a room adjoining the recording studio with walls lined 
floor to ceiling CDs. Thousands of them. Probably not as many as have 
been mentioned in this thread but a fair number.

The only time I ever bought a CD I was so spooked out by the experience 
that I never repeated it. I'm not a great fan of music, any music, 
although I always enjoy a Civic Hall concert by the Guildford 
Philharmonic, and the Battle Proms at Loseley House each summer. An old 
friend, Denise Leigh, a blind soprano, always gives a sublime 
performance at Loseley.

A Christmas about four years ago I needed the words of a song written 
and performed by the folk singer, Jake Thackerey. I ordered a copy from 
Amazon. I listened to it while I washed up after a Christmas luncheon 
party. The following day I was electrified to hear on the news that Jake 
Thackerey had died the day before -- at about the time I was listening 
to the track for which I was writing down the word. It was called Jake 
Thackerey's Last Will and Testament.

It cast a sombre note over my Christmas.

-- 
James Follett