Borrowed CD Slowly Integrated Into Own Collection

OLYMPIA, WA—An Elvis Costello CD belonging to area resident Jonathan Wagner, 24, has entered the final stage of de facto ownership by friend Doug Alland, sources reported Tuesday. “For the first four or five days, I kept Jon’s copy of Blood & Chocolate alone on top of my CD player,” Alland, 23, said. “Then, for about a week and a half, I had it next to a stack of my own CDs that I’d been listening to.” Alland said he then worked the album into the adjacent stack, eventually filing it away in his own CD shelf, where it will remain permanently, unless Wagner specifically asks for it back. “I’m way more into that album than Jon is, anyway,” said Alland, defending the gradual acquisition. “He barely ever even played it.” In 1997, Alland made news for a spectacular nine-stage acquisition of Down By Law on videocassette.