Box Set Piracy/Counterfeits

[JKL2000]

Looking forward to updating my collection of Chinese David Bowie box sets with the next one in October.




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[ronmac]

job killer.

[ronmac]

Chinese David Bowie

There was a time, when one could crack a joke about this just for fun.

[jkelman]

If I see the source is China or Russia, I avoid. It's hard to know what is legit and what is not.

[jkelman]

I once ordered the Beatles Mono box set from Ebay. As soon as I opened it, I knew something was wrong. The individual album cover reproductions were inserted in various directions, instead of being neatly lined up. The discs themselves were in flimsy plastic sleeves. The gatefold sleeves were folded awkwardly. The booklets were fraught with typos. Finally, when I popped Please Please Me into my CD player, what do I hear? Instruments out of the left speaker, vocals out of the right! Stereo!

Not to suggest your experience was other than what you had, but there was a time when stereo mixes were done very quickly, because most folks were still using mono, and such hard panning was actually how they did it.

Example: the stereo Atlantic albums of John Coltrane have his saxophone panned hard to one channel, and I mean HARD. I was very happy when they were reissued in their original mono format - aside from being less annoying with the hard panning, they just sounded warmer (not always easy, given Coltrane's tone on tenor!).

[DocProgger]

Looking forward to updating my collection of Chinese David Bowie box sets with the next one in October.




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So your obsession with box sets is so uncontrollable that you are now trying to satiate it by buying pirated sets from communist countries.

[NogbadTheBad]

I'm pretty sure the country being communist is not the point.

[Mister Triscuits]

I'm pretty sure the country being communist is not the point.

As is appropriate for the upcoming set, he wants a copy that was packed by a genuine China Girl.

[aith01]

As is appropriate for the upcoming set, he wants a copy that was packed by a genuine China Girl.