# Isn't it great when...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-great-when/160426
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 10, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-great-when/160426 "2003-03-10T22:46:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-great-when/160426/1 "2003-03-10T22:46:18Z")
… You hear a great piece of music in a clip for a film, buy the soundtrack only to find that the music is not on it, spend weeks trying to find the music through various means, give up, wait a couple of years, buy a CD completely at random, find the track you were looking for a few years ago is on the CD you bought.
It happened to me. When the Matrix came out, the clip of the scene where they are in the lobby of the govornment building had some very cool music playing with it. I bought the sound track, not on it, spent weeks trying to find it with no luck, now, a couple of years later, I bought “the cross of changes” (enigma) and found the music I was looking for! (track 2 if I remember rightly)
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### Author:  [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/isnt-it-great-when/160426/2 "2003-03-10T23:12:53Z")
You know what’s annoying? Going through that same process, right up to the giving up and waiting a couple years part, then going through some old music you own that you haven’t listened to in eons - and there you find the stupid song on some stupid whole album you bought for just one other stupid song.