waste is waste. A book in the trash is a book in the trash, regardless of what it’s use was. The trash doesn’t care that the book got read for a semester and then thrown out versus opened for a photocard and then thrown out. Waste is waste.

The industry sold that many albums and most of them are in peoples homes. That’s the point. The amount of people who throw away albums compared to those who keep them is minuscule. It’s a fraction of a fraction of the community. It’s not an epidemic. I know dozens of people who have bought a ton of albums for fansigns and those albums either get given away, sold, upcycled for crafts, etc. I’ve never met someone who throws them out.

Entering these convos acting like 50 million of the 54 million albums end up in the garbage is just not it, and it’s just not accurate or realistic.