|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
what are some used CD "near misses" you have had along similar lines? Things like: -no CD or wrong CD in case -CD highly desirable but scratched to hell -incredible bargain price for album you once sought -another customer bought it before you could -etc. Bad experiences: 1) I once ordered the Varese "Conan the Barbarian" from SecondSpin.com and received the case without the CD. 2) I once bought "Memoirs of a Geisha" used for $1, only to discover the disc was a fancy CD-R. 3) And the weirdest: I ordered Elmer Bernstein's "Genocide" from SecondSpin.com, and when I played the disc it was just a random collection of bird sounds. I still have it, and it appears to be a legitimate CD. So I have no idea what happened. My best good experience: --In one trip to a small CD store in 2003, I found sealed, long-box copies of "The Accidental Tourist," "MacArthur," "Earthquake" and Mark Isham's "The Beast."
|
|
|
|
|
I found the ESCAPE FROM L.A. score for cheap, bought it, got it home and the disc was the "songs from and inspired by" album. Luckily the store had both in stock and swapped them for me.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Found THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW at a little CD/video place here in San Diego, some years ago. For $8.99... Also got the Muir Matheson KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE and THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, on separate occasions, in a CD/video store up the coast in Encinitas. There have been others, but those stand out. I used to pore over the CD's at the flea market and thrift stores, but have lately stopped the practice, since the effort I have to put out has not been fruitful. San Diego used to have more than half a dozen used-CD places; now it has only a couple, and they're not that good. The same thing has happened to most of the used book stores as well. Everything has been subsumed by the internet. Now, I do most of my shopping on Amazon. Or, I'll find about something somewhere else, and look for it on Amazon. (Amazon doesn't have everything: I still get most of my soundtracks from SAE, and Amazon sometimes doesn't have certain cast albums.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|