The Last Compact Disc: Rolling Stones “Hackney Diamonds” review
by Garth Meyer The release date arrived October 21st. I’d been listening to rock radio in the car to see if I might hear the single. No luck. I was about to buy an album on the day it came out for the first time since as far back as I could remember. I believe the last time was 2005, for “A Bigger Bang.” I walked into a Tower Records in New York and bought it. This time, I went to Soundsations by the L.A. Airport, stepped to the display of new CDs front and center, but saw no red cover. I went to the counter, “Where might I find ‘Hackney Diamonds’?” “Right over there,” the man said. He pointed to a vinyl section. “I mean on CD.” He apologized. He didn’t have any yet. It turns out the distributor they use in Kentucky received shipments from Polydor — with boxes of “Hackney Diamonds” on CD — but the pallets had no barcode, which workers scan to tell them what’s inside. So all they could do to find out was start opening boxes. Once they unwrapped a pallet, they had to stock it, so that took time. “Try back tomorrow, we might have it,” said the counter man. “They said they’ll overnight them to us as soon as they find them.” Alright. Two days later, I stopped by. No luck. I gave up…
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