Bummer

The other day whilst in a large corporate book store I spotted this on sale:

It was selling for around $79 when it first hit the stores and I saw it had been marked down to $25. It's every issue of Rolling Stone from it's first issue in 1967 up through 2007 on CD Rom.

For me in the 1970's Rolling Stone was a lifeline. I read every issue I could get my hands on to find out what was going on in the pop culture world outside of boring old Lee County, VA. I learned all about new trends, bands, movies, and a shitload about geo-political goings on from the pages of Rolling Stone. Without it I would have been lost in a sea of willful ignorance and idiocy.

So when I saw this set was on sale for a third of it's original price I promised myself I'd buy it when Sparky went to get her new John Irving novel. So off we went this afternoon and she got her novel and I got my Rolling Stone on CD Rom set. But when I tried to load it I got a shock. The program that installs the reader keeps telling me I don't have enough memory to install it so it aborts.

Obviously, I'm pissed and I want to resolve this issue. So what I want to know is, how can I fix this problem? Do I get one of those flash drive thingys? Will that make it work? Or do I need to do something different? I deleted a bunch of programs that I hardly ever or never used and still it tells me I don't have enough memory. My computer is not that old and I don't have a bunch of huge programs that take up too much space on it. So what the fuck can I do? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, because I'm dying to go through all those issues from the 1970's and '80's again. And I'm really super keen on going through the issues I didn't read the first time around.

Help a monkey out will ya.