Vinyl: The Red Album

And, while we're at it, the Blue Album.

Artist: The Beatles
Owned on digital media: No
Want to replace: No

OK, Amazon, you are taking the piss. £15.48 for this? The music on it is almost 50 years old. Two of the artists are dead, and the other two don't really need any more money than they already have. I mean, Paul. Even after his expensive divorce he's still only down to his last 600 million.

So no. No thanks. This music may well have been part of my childhood (it was), formed the audio backdrop to many of my most treasured memories (it did) and maybe I would enjoy hearing most of the tracks again (I would), but most of the 50-year-old music I'm familiar with turns up for free on give-away CDs in Sunday papers.

The fact that the remaining Beatles, or their record company, or the estate of the late Michael Jackson, or whoever the hell owns the rights to these tracks nowadays, is STILL trying to squeeze the last scuffed penny out of the music-buying public all these years later is nothing short of a national scandal.

A fiver maybe. For the pair. But thirty quid? You're 'aving a larrrrf.