The Eagles’ million-selling Hotel California album will be re-released on 180-gram vinyl on October 21.

We know what it means to be held hostage by progress. We bought the original over thirty years ago. We got a second one on 8-track (remember those?) to listen to in our car in 1978. Then we had to have it as a music cassette to play on the brand new Walk-Man back in the day. Of course, we upgraded it to a CD when they came out around 1986. And who’s without it in mp3 format today?

So it’s back to square one, because you can check out any format you want, but you can never leave.