I may have been buying only one vinyl LP a year in the mid-'90s, but in late 2002 I had one of those periodic spasms where I decided to start becoming a record collector again.
Quite why I decided to spend £5 on this particular second-hand record, I don't know. I've never really been a fan of the B52s; not in 1980, not in 2002, and not now. Having considered it worthwhile to spend a fiver on it, I'm pretty sure I never considered it worthwhile to spend 35 minutes listening to it. Having finally done the latter, I doubt that I'll be repeating the experience.
If I bought it as an investment, I should have done more homework, since Amazon currently lists several copies for less than a fiver.
I got the record at Forever Changes, on Ecclesall Road in Sheffield. Tim and I popped in there in May. The shop has since moved round the corner to Hickmott Road — to equally small but probably cheaper premises. Still the same bloke running it. There was a copy of Neil Young's Decade there for only £10. I told him it was underpriced, because it had all the original inner sleeve inserts. He countered that the heavy wear to those inserts, and the cover in general, diminished the value of the record. I nearly bought it, just to show how confident I was in my opinion. But then I thought about it for a second, and decided he was probably right.
 MusicBrainz entry for this album
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