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Not really interesting in fact.Finally, I hit upon an unmistakeable trend. It has less to do with musical genres than with the age of the target consumer. Almost half of the new CDs I have been sent aren't new at all. They are reissues or compilations of old material, which fits with the official figures: last year, they accounted for 49% of all albums sold in Britain. In fact, there are so many reissues that you occasionally begin to wonder if there is anything worthwhile left in the record company vaults. You can see the point of the impossibly thrilling remasters of Krautrock giants Can's first four albums or the groundbreaking early recordings of 808 State - but Buggles? A solo album by a bloke who was once in Roy Wood's Wizzard? A solo album by the drummer of Level 42?