In the immortal words of Dave Barry, I swear I am not making this up

[mayhap]

I could scarcely believe it myself before I found four of them. Neither could anyone else presumably, since all the pages and clerks who were working that night all crowded around to examine them; you, dear reader, are simply going to have to take my word for it.

They lurk among our CD holdings. The actual CD has been replaced with a burned copy, with the original art and barcode number reproduced on it. (I'm still not even sure how they pull this off; perhaps one of my fair readers can enlighten me?) The actual liner notes have been replaced with a copy, printed out on an inkjet printer, with a typed-up label mimicking ours on the front. The liner notes gives the game away immediately when you know what you're looking for--where there's supposed to be a raised barcode on the inside, there's just a scanned, printed image of one.

Now, is it just me, or does that seem like a lot of effort and expense to go to, just to acquire a beat-up library CD that has been defaced with multiple stickers and markings? Whatever happened to, you know, shoplifting from stores? Isn't that cool anymore?

Kids these days. I tell you *shakes head ruefully*

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[coercedbynutmeg.livejournal.com]

He must have some sort of strange attack of conscience, or perhaps he's practicing to become a skilled forger. Or he could be insane. Ask the head librarian if he looks like my icon here.