desperately seeking andy gibb shadow dancing
let me share with you my bizarre experience. remember i told you that i used to entertain audiophiles in my house regularly, during the heat of my hifi passion. and amazingly, many of my CDs had gone missing along the way. i couldn't figure out why but i suspect there are some thieves among those visiting audiophiles. among the CDs i lost are norah jones come away with me (USA pressing), andy gibb shadow dancing (the subject of this post), carpenters greatest hits (gold disc) and many others. now that i have practically stopped entertaining people, i haven't since lost a single CD... i think i know who is the thief ;-)
anyway, i greatly treasure my andy gibb shadow dancing and this cd has long been discontinued. if you were a teenager in the early 80s, you would know why i am so crazy over this CD. lo and behold, i found it on ebay! being an ebay virgin, i didn't consult anyone and went on straight to bid for it....
for the first few days, i remained the highest bidder and i was so confident of getting the CD. but dang!, i didn't know that in the game of bidding, the last few minutes/seconds before the bidding ends is what that counts most! as a result, i was outbidded by not one, but three buyers! i was a sore loser and i promise to be wiser the next time.
but you know what's the most frustrating thing? from amazon to ebay, many sellers just don't entertain malaysian buyers. i knew this all along when i shopped for hifi stuff (e.g. tubes) in USA sites but i thought that was 5 years ago??? no, they still think malaysians are fraudsters.
so i consulted my friend, an ebay expert and a fanatic music lover from the oz, and you know what is his sage advice - "just wait for the reissue la! the sound gonna be better and you may even get bonus tracks!".
but friend, you are not an audiophile la! who wants reissue?
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8 years ago
5 comments:
1st time for me at ebay years ago, wanted some i/c. Paypal do not wanted to have anything to do with credit cards issued in Malaysia, not even those issued by Citibank. And ya, the last few minutes is when the actions come.
The problem with old CD. The quality aren't great especially if you played it in high resolution setup.
One more thing. Since you had decided to sit less on couch listening and playing with hifi, you should take up dancing instead. Since you like oldies, perhaps ballroom dancing?
kong,
hahaah.
by oldies, i mean the 70s/80s stuff and not your neil sedaka, frank sinatra era.
i once thought of forming a band, comprising of four guys aged 40 year-old respectively and we are going to call it F40.. apologies to taiwanese boy band F4 who are much younger and better looking but without our talents ;-)
Sorry to read of the loss of your valued CD's..
A word of caution regarding re-issues. MOST are not better sounding than originals. With re-issues they invariably fiddle with the sound, "improving" it until it sounds crap. Case in point; the new re-issues of The Doors, Genesis et al all pale in comparison with the originals.
I have the other original compilation "Andy Gibb" which contains Shadow Dancing track. Its sonically as good as the one on the cd you lost.
Of course I have the other album,(along with many many rare ones) but I'm not parting with that yet.
That's why I stopped inviting anyone for home audition..like inviting devils in disguise.
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