When I was about 6 years old, I had lent my then twenty-something cousin a 45 rpm of "Just Like Me" by Paul Revere and the Raiders. He returned it to me with a frickin’ scratch well-deep into the grooves which caused a skip. As my folks didn’t have much money, they couldn’t afford to replace the record. So, I had to get used to the newly made skip and, to this day, it sounds weird to listen to that song without it.
Fast forward about 40 years. That same cousin (who is now an audiophile) borrows several CDs and Mosaic box sets from me and returns them with one CD missing. He denies that he borrowed the missing CD, despite the fact that I had catalogued each disc that I had lent to him. Ultimately, I had to shell out to purchase a replacement disc.
The moral of these vignettes is that one should NEVER lend physical media to anyone. Nobody will take care of your stuff as well as you do.
Fast forward about 40 years. That same cousin (who is now an audiophile) borrows several CDs and Mosaic box sets from me and returns them with one CD missing. He denies that he borrowed the missing CD, despite the fact that I had catalogued each disc that I had lent to him. Ultimately, I had to shell out to purchase a replacement disc.
The moral of these vignettes is that one should NEVER lend physical media to anyone. Nobody will take care of your stuff as well as you do.