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?
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Amazing!!
;);)
I think that before having to burn all my collection, I’d definitively flee the country and start living like an outlaw!!!!
although I back burning all of Cher’s tunes…. hahaha!! I’d do know if I had any albums….
and correct me if I’m wrong, but am I the only one who thinks he ended up winning??? going from Cher to U2 is a great thing!!!
cheers!!
This seems a little extreme here. I’m not sure the punishment fits the crime, although I’d say there’s a huge difference in quality between a Cher collection and a U2 collection.
Now, when you say everything U2, do you mean “everything” or just CDs and DVDs? The tunes, precious as they are, are replaceable. I can always buy more CDs. However, I have a few vintage items (T-shirts and posters) that I’d definitely be tempted to fight for, and I’m by no means a violent person.
If it was me, I would just load all of the banned tunes onto my mp3, and plug them into speakers!
I do feel sorry for this guy’s neighbours though-I’m sure I wouldn’t be such a big fan of U2 if they were inflicted on me by someone playing them constantly at a deafening level.
It would definately take a lot of time for them to get rid of all my U2 stuff… having to take all the stuff off the walls, taking all my cds, all the pictures, newspaper clippings, and articles about the lads…. not to mention my well- loved, very faded, Vertigo shirt….. then there’s the DVDs, the books… I’d probably die!
Well…once upon a time, a long time ago, when I was trying to start anew, I got rid of all the music I was listening to at the time….I don’t know what I was thinking. Now if I had someone make me do it, I’d definitely put up a fight.