What if you had to destroy your U2 collection?
That’s what happened to Karl Wiosna of Graig, Wales after he refused to keep the volume down on his Cher tunes (then switched to U2 after being reprimanded).
The act was ordered by a judge after Mr. Wiosna had already been formally warned, but chose not to comply with the law. He was also fined a few hundred pounds for the defiance.
And this got me thinking—where did all of that music go? To the police station evidence room where they’ll spontaneously jam to “Two Hearts Beat as One” while they solve crimes?
And when the men arrived to “raid” his home and confiscate, how did they know they’d gotten *everything* U2?
If cops were to raid the home of say…Tassoula E. Kokkoris…they would need to take frames off the wall (some original U2 vinyls live there), go through my DVD player and stereo (with 3-CD changer), take the obvious “regulars” off my wall rack, apprehend box sets and collectible boxed singles from my music entertainment center, wipe out my iTunes (and the U2 iPod I play them on), file through books of “homemade” CDs and mix tapes that I’ve made or have had made for me over the year and rifle through storage boxes for the ones that are just too rare/precious/collectible to play.
It would take them a while.
And really—in the grand scheme of things, CDs and such aren’t that expensive anymore (save for super-special-limited-edition-once-in-a-lifetime-deluxe-re-issues).
Won’t the offender just head back out to his local HMV after he’s done paying his fines and replace his Joshua Tree?
This is a post from the @U2 Blog.
What if you had to destroy your U2 collection?
