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...copies floating around, it won't be releasing the album for sale in the U.K. at all. Music retailers boycotted the paper, until HMV reluctantly agreed to stock it, just this once. "We decided we could either get marginalized or we could get right in there," says spokesman Gennaro Castaldo. "With whatever reservations, our motivation was to give our customers the choice and access to the album." But what the industry is really worried about is what happens next...
...April 20, 1999 Richard Castaldo, then 17, was eating lunch on the lawn with Rachel Scott when Harris and Klebold attacked. They killed her and shot him in the arm, chest, back and abdomen, damaging his lungs, kidney and spleen. A spinal cord injury will confine him to a wheelchair for life...
...Three weeks ago Castaldo moved from Colorado to Los Angeles. "He has a brand-new life," says his mother, Connie Michalik. "He really needed to get away from Denver...
...Angeles, Castaldo goes to audio engineering school. He has a service dog and lives alone in a one-bedroom apartment, although there are relatives nearby. Watching television coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings, he saw Craig Scott, Rachel's brother, on TV talking about Columbine. The Virginia massacre stirred up painful memories. "It's horrible, obviously; it's overwhelming," he says. "It makes me wonder why things like that happen...
...Castaldo has never come to grips with why the Columbine shootings happened. It's something only the shooters could know, he says. His own rehabilitation was focused on his body; he had no mental health counseling, although he says he suffered "a little bit" from nightmares, survivor's guilt and fear of people. "Early on," he adds, "not so much anymore...