The Tragic Case of a Broken CD

We just moved houses after 16 years, and after boxing my vinyl, CDs, cassettes, DVDs, Blu-Rays, VHS, books, etc and realizing that pile of boxes of media probably wouldn’t have even fit in my first apartment, I set about to cleaning the basement a bit to prep for selling. One of the things I had to scrub off the floor made me sigh. Four or five years ago, after playing Todd Rundgren’s “Something/Anything?” from the Complete Bearsville box set, I couldn’t immediately find the box to return it so I set the CD in its vinyl-style slip-case packaging on a pile of CDs in the basement. It must have slid off and onto the floor, and a few days later we had a massive storm that brought just a small amount of water into the basement, including right where that CD lay. After the storm, I saw the CD there and tried to carefully lift it but the front cover stick to the floor and ripped off. I wasn’t able to separate it from the floor and for years there was a piece of cardboard stuck there until I just scraped it off. So now I have 10 albums in that box immaculate and one that looks like a paperback book whose cover was torn off. :-( I have a couple other box sets with a missing disc, where I burned a CD-R to replace it, but nothing irks me more than that Something/Anything CD cover. I have multiple copies of it on vinyl—if I only I had a shrink ray.