My only picture disc (not counting this tie-dye affair, which isn't a picture), bought in late 1980 or early '81 as a collector's item. I might have played it once — you know, to check it genuinely was Hemispheres and not just a circular bit of coloured plastic.
I should have left it unplayed and sealed. Someone thinks they can get £50 on eBay for new copy, whereas even mint copies like mine only fetch about a third of the price. So, as has invariably been the case with my "collectors' items", it hasn't even kept pace with inflation. It's the peripheral things that I bought on a whim when they were cheap, only for them to disappear from commercial distribution, that turned out to be the real jewels.
And I'd rather listen to Don't Stand Me Down than Hemispheres, into the bargain.
MusicBrainz entry for this album
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