True story.

About 25 years ago, I happened on two cut-out LP's by a jazz improv group named the Revolutionary Ensemble (Leroy Jenkins, violin/Sirone, bass/Jerome Cooper, percussion) that I went nuts over. A jazz trio with that instrumentation was too much to resist and, even though I'd never heard them before, I bought them both. The group had a fairly short lifespan and recorded only 3 other discs. Within a year, I had found the other two through various sources but the final one eluded me. I searched and searched but couldn't find it.

Recently, I learned that the final disc had been reissued on CD. Of course I put aside my usual reservations of the sonic compromises of RBCD and immediately bought the disc. It arrived yesterday by mail. It was worth waiting for 25 years!

Today, I went vinyl hunting to a couple of usual haunts. Lo and behold, there sat a used but pristine copy of the vinyl which I also bought. Those familiar with vinyl vs CD and this board won't need to ask which sounded better. It only took 25 years but I finally found that LP! Did some knucklehead simply wait for the CD reissue to replace the vinyl? We'll never know.

BTW, it's the last of three OOP discs that I had been searching for since 1979. The other two I found in 2001 (only 22 years later!) and I found them both on the same day at the same location! Weird, huh?