Have you ever forgot you owned an album?

I had a strange experience this morning. I was going through numerous boxes of albums (where sadly a good chunk of the collection my husband and I share is kept, due to limited display space) and was quite surprised to find some albums I could have sworn I'd never even heard, let alone owned. The albums in question were various Neal Morse ones, which were notable because I remembered making a post on Adam's review of One (just over a month ago) specifically saying that I should check more Morse stuff out, as I'd only heard One, ? & Sola Scriptura. Now here I find I actually own Testimony 1 & 2, Lifeline, and some other stuff he's done such as a lot of Spock's Beard's discography. 

I've rebought on impulse an album that I later realised I already owned. It happens the other way too. I've gone looking for albums that I'm convinced I own, and find no trace of them physically or as a ripped download. Perhaps I used to have them on vinyl or cassette. 

I do that too. Not easy when you find a record shop though on your travels 

I´ve purchased the same Barclay James Harvest album twice (Octoberon), because I couldn´t remember that I had already purchased it...and with only a few months between the two purchases...silly me . What is more silly is, that I still haven´t had the time to listen to the album(s). So I´ve purchased the same album twice and haven´t even listened to it

Edited by UMUR - 11 Aug 2020 at 2:31pm

I forget I own albums all the time, it doesn't help that my collection is pretty large.

I don't think I've done it accidentally but about 15 years ago, I had to purchase a second copy of blink-182's Dude Ranch as it got stuck in a HiFi. The same thing happened to my first copy of In the Court of the Crimson King but this time it got stuck in my car CD player. It was sadly sold as scrap along with the rest of the car. That CD was also purchased again.

BitterJalapeno wrote: I don't think I've done it accidentally but about 15 years ago, I had to purchase a second copy of blink-182's Dude Ranch as it got stuck in a HiFi. The same thing happened to my first copy of In the Court of the Crimson King but this time it got stuck in my car CD player. It was sadly sold as scrap along with the rest of the car. That CD was also purchased again.