I don't own all the Beatles albums. Not even close, considering how destroyed my copies of Sgt. Pepper's, Rubber Soul and Revolver are.
And for someone who has aggressively pursued every single book about the Beatles (but not about the individual Beatles) and have read more about the Beatles than you can possibly imagine, that's pretty bad. I went through a period where I was obsessively listening to the Beatles, but I lived at home at the time, and it was so long ago that I had a tape player and copied my dad's CDs onto tapes and lived happily like that. When I went to college I made an effort to get all of the albums, but it didn't happen.
Besides Beatles "1", I haven't bought a Beatles album in years. I'm thinking it might be time. I'm reading a Beatles book right now, one of the more comprehensive ones (unlike the last one, which only dealt with the few US tours the Beatles embarked on), written by a fellow who seems to have worked for Brian Epstein. Anyway, this book is making me want to listen to the Beatles again (as I am doing right at this very mo), and I'm realizing how corrupted some of my Beatles CDs are. It makes me unhappy.
So I'm going to have to take steps to rectify the situation. Unfortunately, I may have to wait until I get a job to spend oodles of money on Beatles CDs. (Do you know how many there are? And then there are all those "bootlegs." I've never owned any of those. How worth it do you think those are?) So yeah, I've decided that 2005 will be "Complete the Beatles Collection" year. I have five months. (I guess there is the question of what the complete Beatles collection is, but I'm going with the definition that it's just the studio albums. Besides, I know I have all the anthology CDs, which makes the collection even more complete.)
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