Depeche Mode, like so many other ’80s bands, knows how to use their back catalogue to keep licensing deals alive. At least, their label, Sire, does.

Yet another “Best of” was released a couple of weeks ago. I – along with many other post-punk, post-new wave children of that era – picked it up. I’ve got so many CDs now that I don’t really know if I have any Depeche Mode on the shelf. I really need to come up with a cataloguing system.

For $12, I figured Depeche Mode: The Best of, volume 1 was worth purchasing.

But “Personal Jesus” comes from the album Violator, which is why that image is displayed here, and not the image of the disc I purchased last week.

Otherwise, I’d come across as overly nostalgic, don’t you think? Shudder at the thought.