i don’t know if anyone else has talked about this, maybe i just overanalyze things too much, but i feel like if Rand had been around when the Kashmir remaster came out, he would’ve hated it. Rand’s whole thing is never changing, being stuck in the past (i have other plans to make long posts about how nbr represents different aspects of change, don’t worry) so when he hears that a song from after his sister’s death, after the others left Galloway, is not only old enough to need a remaster, but has been replaced almost entirely by that remaster, i don’t think he could’ve accepted that.