Dark Side of the Moon Vinyl
Must've been a first pressing. Was old but in absolutely perfect condition. I was about 7 at the time, and CDs hadn't really caught on yet so people were still using dark shiny disks to hear scratchy renditions of classic music. It was like tying a kitten to one of the black monoliths from A Space Odyssey before turning a nailgun on the helpless creature just to see what notes it would wail, and in my mind I refused to tarnish that album by playing it for that very reason.

It was something I was very protective of. My naive childish logic concluded that this one record could be sold at a figure high enough to buy me some sort of tropical island by the time I was 20 (now that it's here, I'm stuck in a terraced house in Berkshire). Alas, it was not to be. My sister ripped the sleeve from her Kylie Minogue album to kingdom come, and promptly 'replaced' my record with hers and relocated the heir loom to the nearest dustbin possible.

Apparently when you're 5 years old you can get away with that kind of thing. Of course, I got sent up shit creek without a paddle when I reduced the poor demon to tears and was informed by my culturally non-existent mother 'She doesn't know what she's doing. We'll get you a new one, don't worry'. 13 years on and I'm still waiting for that tropical island.

Length? About 6 miles across, with palm trees.
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Sun 17 Aug 2008, 14:59, 2 replies)

I had one of those
It went for a tenner
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 15:39, closed)

This story
nearly had me in tears.
(Ethong is enjoying Cardiff. Especially Bogiez., Sun 17 Aug 2008, 22:39, closed)