20 years apart

Pressed Eject to put the disc on the right in, and the one on the left came out and I was surprised to see how similar they looked to each other. They are 20 years apart, but I couldn’t guess if the Diamond CD’s design is native to 20 years ago. Actually, 20 years ago, the album’s release was a controversy. Reportedly without informing either Diamond or Rubin, Columbia Records put tracking software on the first CD issue that reported back to them when anyone put it into a computer’s CD-ROM drive. There was an uproar and they had to reissue the CDs but at that point, the music, the Diamond/Rubin teaming, was never the news about the record.


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