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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Bogus CDs |
| Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 16:21:37 -0600 |
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You have to be REALLY careful scanning those bargain bins, theres been a
few on this list that got burned with a "Best of Badfinger" CD and cassette
that came out a couple years ago which was remakes by "Joey Molland's
Badfinger". When I was looking for CD's of the Bee Gee's early Australian
recordings, I came across about 5 different ones - all cheaply done with
reshuffled track listings and pictures of disco-era Bee Gees to fool
suckers into thinking they were getting 70's recordings. These people who
toss these things together have no shame.
I picked up at my local "Dollar G" a $5 Carole King "Brill Building
Sessions & More" on Prism Leisure (also made in Israel) which has some
rough quality but great demos of her early material and some good songs
from the early 70's. Packaging is a bit above most cheap-o CD's - it even
came with liner notes.
If the CD has "Re-recorded by the original artist" (or something close to
it) or on a label you'd never heard of before or not on the artist's usual
label, its a rip-off. As for the Beau Brummels only get the ones from
Sundazed or the Rhino best-of - everything else I have found are poor
sounding junk.
Billy
At 11:57 AM 2/25/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Anybody ever experience this?
>
>I purchased a budget CD at a Dollar General store in Conway, Arkansas, a
>best of Mott the Hoople--it had a pic of the band on the cover circa the
>Morgan Fisher era. Turned out not to be Mott at all but some copy cat band,
>who stunk up the remainder of the disc with their own originals. The CD came
>from the Netherlands. I had a helluva time explaining to the elderly clerk
>why I wanted my money back but I got to swap for a different Mott CD--the
>real thing.
>
>I picked up a flea market CD for three bucks called "The Beau Brummels:
>Sixties Gems", manufactured in Israel. It had the original tracks (though
>the sound quality was a bit suspect) plus a couple of tracks must have been
>demos--the sound's a bit dodgy.
>
>Brad Harvey
>NP: "Love's Oblivion", Morty Shallman
>
>
>
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