BOWIE’S BOOM
Oh shut up. Nobody’s making you buy it, are they?
That’s always the answer, in the end. Nobody’s making you buy it. No matter that you’ve spent two-thirds of your life devotedly picking up everything released in the name of such-and-such a star; no matter that you’d sooner walk down the road with no clothes on than allow the collection to be besmirched by a loudly accusing void. Nobody’s making you buy it, so don’t buy it.
We heard it a couple of years ago, when turned 50, and our already-impoverished Beatle
