| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1517 |
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Now, I've seen at least three versions of Time Out by The Dave
Brubeck Quartet.
One was a mislabled disc. The spine label said "Take Five" rather than
"Time Out". I think someone out there has purchased it, and might
be able to talk about where it came from.
The second was a Columbia disc (Columbia = CBS). This has been
available for a while around these parts for ~$16.00.
The third I noticed at Tower Records this weekend. It was a CBS
disc, something about "historical re-issue" or some such screened
on the disc, and asking price was $24.00!
Ok, are any of these bootlegs? What's the story with this mega-buck
disc?
(I asked the salesperson why the high price on Time Out, and he lamely
talked about the price of the Yen and it's Reagan's fault that Time Out
costs $24.00. I bought two made in Japan discs at the time, both under
$15.00. I don't think it registered with the "help" that he was
spewing forth caca.)
Sooooo. What's the story? Anybody know? Mis-tagged discs at Tower
(They had a couple of dozen, all marked the same outrageous price.)
-mr. bill
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 546.1 | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | The Mad Armenian | Mon Dec 01 1986 03:30 | 25 | |
Your first two versions are the same disc. I have it, it's a
Columbia issue, and it's mislabeled TAKE FIVE on the spine
(I have yet to see one that isn't so mislabeled). It cost me
in the $14-16 range from Lechmere.
I haven't seen the other one you describe, but I would guess
that it is indeed a Japanese import, and was probably issued
before the US version was. As far as the price on imports go,
there is a difference between a disc that is simply made in
Japan for a US label for distribution in the US (few CD's are
actually manufactured in this country) and one that is made
by a Japanese label (or the Japanese branch of a US label)
for distribution in Japan and then imported to the US. I'm
not surprised at the $24.00 price tag. It'll possibly sound
better than the American issue, but the latter is so good, that
the difference in price is far greater than the difference in
quality.
And remember, it's the distributor that sets the price, not the
retailer (except in how he adjusts it to make his profit). BCD
has some German imports for $18.99 and some for $23.99. The
retailer can only adjust up from what *he* has to pay to the
distributor.
--- jerry
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