Was this actually to my niave innocent ignorance a extremely stupid idea?

 I'll tell you my story on this one. I got stationed overseas. My unit and I were about to deploy to Afghanistan. I was in debt from my student loan and reclassed from my MOS with my bonus. My peers basically told me I was going to become an amputee very shortly. (there's also a little bit of similarity to this and the Adam Driver story too). My unit covered down for me and basically asked what I'd be okay with. I basically got instructed to go AWOL (previously I saved up all my money to pay off my loan with by only eating at the DFAC chow hall) and I did. I first bought a guitar and then used my savings on hotels. Previously another trivia bit was there was a ad in Ft Gordon for Smart Piggy and it said there were high interest rates I had some money in there before cashing out. So while AWOL I recorded what happened to be about the exact amount of a vinyl record in addition to other extra recordings for another album. I was very proud of this album but maybe now much later in hindsight was paranoid about if my Aunt had my best interest in mind. She was living in Germany. This happened in Schweinfurt Wurzburg and Munich mostly. I educated myself on AWOL terms later learning the cool expression a deserter. I was honorably discharged and given 100 percent med retirement because my parents helped with a General helping my case. I saw how this was the story would it be stupid to use my money to get a vinyl record printing? Thinking in terms of the HMGS conventions things I've seen make it really put into perspective. Another nuance was I think I may have heard there was a guy if I remember his name it was Bouchard I thought I heard he got abandoned overseas (we were all also the dirt bags while simultaneously the best soldiers he was going to the brothel regularly) at Camp Shank and I could've been accountable for that. Was this album not worth the effort? I thought of like how disciplined I was during it guitar like the Edge from U2 or guitar like Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones. But my mom tells me these musicians get treated poorly in that profession and I started to see her point. More would be there was a group I learned about Roky Erikson of the 13th Floor Elevators I compared myself to. So I actually saw him live and supporting my new found skepticism as opposed to pride he actually died not long after that concert according to the internet. I think another one that makes it not seem so huge was how many countless older white male guitar players did I see? Off the top of my head remembering Tom Rush at the Birchmere to make it not seem so extraordinary or crazy. But supporting my dignity and narcissism I thought this was something helpful for others out there. During Obama I was afraid I was going to get barred for life. I voted for Mccain openly and to this day feel like I get treated like a criminal though I am a home owner.

Is it worth it to make hard copies of my content? I have other media I have collected through the years that I shared before like Instagram Tumblr Facebook Youtube XVideos etc but didn't do the hard copies. Is this just too vain? I thought it could be cool to have a copy of stuff in my house. That's some of the story for now.