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Did you buy your copy of the official CD from Prince William and Kate’s wedding?  Why anyone would want such a thing is beyond me, but there’s a market for just about everything.

For example, a British record company called Charrm [sic] released a limited-edition single:  a “recording” of the one minute of silence held in Hyde Park in London after Princess Diana’s funeral in 1997.  If you can find one, you’ve done well because only five hundred copies were pressed up.

But wait!  There’s more.  A

fter more than five years of combing through the archives of broadcasting giants like the BBC, a British conceptual artist complied a double CD featuring nothing more than 82 two-minute silences “recorded” during Remembrance Day ceremonies.  The CD is called Kenotaphion, which is the Greek word for “empty tomb.”

People bought it.  See what I mean?