I’ve bought Gary Moore’s Wild Frontier a number of times. Recorded it from someone else’s tape, my baby sister ate it, bought it on tape, had it stolen, bought it again, bought the first CD when it came out, and bought the remastered CD when it came out.
I’ve also bought Twisted Sister’s Stay Hungry a couple of times as well, once on tape, then again on CD, and a redone one called Still Hungry, though my CD has a scratch on it and I need to buy it again.
Iron Maiden might be the worst though, I had a few on tape, then got all of the CDs. They reissued all of them with extra disks, I bought them all, they reissued them again and I bought them again. For awhile I had three sets of them. The two disk set was limited and I ended up selling it for $400 a couple of years ago.
Way too many to list them all (like I could remember, anyway).
I gave away grocery bags full of 8-tracks that I had replaced with vinyl, then years later gave away boxes of albums that had been replaced by CD. (They went to a good home, though, a working musician with a taste for analog and no money. He refused to take the more valuable ones so I still have a first pressing of Led Zep III with “So mote it be” scratched into the vinyl, next to the label.)
Almost all the cassettes I had were for archiving vinyl. The only ones I remember buying (cassette, vinyl, CD) were Santana - Abraxas and Johnny Winter - Saint and Sinner. I also bought Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms on all three, but that was because the cassette and the vinyl were different (slightly different arrangements on “Your Latest Trick” IIRC).
I know I had Frampton Comes Alive on 8-track, vinyl, CD and 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" CD and if you stretch the boundaries a little, Frampton Comes Alive II on CD and DVD.
A couple of years ago I bought 5 or 6 copies of Christopher Moore’s “The Stupidest Angel” on CD for family Christmas presents.
I have never done this with any music album. I didn’t own any when I was growing up and the few my mom had were good music (classical) but not what I would typically buy for myself.
By the time I was old enough to start buying my own albums and had the money to do it, I had an MP3 player and I’ve just loaded my sister’s or ex-boyfriend’s albums.
I do this with books though. I’m not exactly sure how many times I"ve bought 1984 but I’ve read it so many times that I’ve destroyed all but one copy. The first one I destroyed was actually my school’s property. My English teacher let me borrow it and I never gave it back. She didn’t teach it any more so she didn’t mind. I stopped counting replacements when I got to the 5th one. My mom did buy me a nicer copy a few years ago and I haven’t managed to destroy it yet. I also have the audiobook on the MP3 which is probably why I haven’t had to replace the book yet.
Ah, but do you have the mighty Hot Fuzz soundtrack?