Old Enough to Forget

It's not often a classic pops up in the dollar bin. The last surprise this big was Tattoo You by the Stones, and that album was in amazing shape, including the insert. Part of me wasn't too concerned so long as the big songs were playable. Besides, I have the 2003 deluxe edition, and that is almost two and a half hours of material - much of which I've maybe heard once while it played in the background. Yeah, sad. Anyway, here was the 1980 MCA reissue. At first this confused me because I thought it was an old record - I mean, it is old, but older than the date suggested. Someone must have been having a bad day and dragged the needle across the first side. I could feel it with my fingernail, so I figured the best-case scenario was a repeating pop for a few songs. Thankfully, "Baba O'Riley" was fairly clean, and frankly, on the first side that's all that mattered to me. The songs still sound fresh while also being very much of their time. When I think of son...