Neurotic Freddie flac storage

A couple months ago before 'Lover of Life' came out, I decided to back-up my Freddie Solo Collection CDs as flac files. The 10 CDs fit with plenty of room to spare as level 8 flacs on a standard DVD-R.

So then along comes Lover of Life and I decide to copy the files back and add those two discs as well. That one comes to 4.28 gig, perfect!

Then time passes and I decide to get the Sunshine People CD single because I heard an mp3 of the club version which is really cool. (full-length mp3 listens = sales) So I want to add that track..

So now here I am about to burn a 3rd flac disc.. this time it comes to 4.33 gig. Even more perfect!

http://members.cox.net/queenspace/freddie_flac.htm

But what bothers me, besides my insane need to have everything in one place, is that I'm not legally able to give the previous two discs to a friend, even family right? How fucking stupid is that? I paid mega bucks for all this shit and for the blank discs and my own time and effort to make these discs but the contents aren't mine.

This is a perfect example of why copyright laws are ridiculous. If I wanted to sell copies that would be one thing, but pre-existing backups which will otherwise go to waste... what? They must be destroyed or kept only by me? Bullshit.

Anyway, just thought I'd share that.

Incidently I've just hit a milestone in my Queen collecting. Since 2002 I've spent over 2 grand on Queen!

$2010.65 U.S. Dollars
2284.58 CAD
1605.56 EUR
1077.25 GBP
2666.92 AUD
239,339.45 JPY

Try converting to Indonesian Rupiah (I just got back from there) - what an exchange rate!

(I'm sure there are others worse)

hewwo bubbos hooz a good bunny you are wes woo aah

Sorry. Anyway, so you're flac'ing duplicates? (#79 and #170 for example)

Yeah I wasn't gonna delete stuff just because it was repeated. Perhaps if it hadn't all fit on one disc :-P