Automorph
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Posted: July 07 2010, 19:21 |
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Not that SimonUK needs mine or anyone else's approval, but I accept what he says, sympathise with his sister's situation and congratulate his good fortune.
And this is despite me posting earlier on this thread, expressing how disappointed I was with my missing out on getting the ltd HR and Ommadawn from MO's shop before they sold out. I was frustrated at my missing the release news on this forum. I had a period recently where work just didn't give me the time or opportunity to check this forum every month, let alone every day! Maybe I haven't sussed out yet if there is a convenient email news digest thingy..
But I was also frustrated with the selfish mentality of some collectors who actually buy more than one copy for themselves - for example, as I read on the TB Ultimate thread last year, one to play and one to keep pristine and forever unopened and unplayed (presumably kept in a hermetically sealed room, more free of contaminants than a computer chip lab). And this is where I share SimonUK's sentiments about this practice - particularly when the practice is admitted and talked about as if perfectly justifiable,and particularly when similar avid collectors on this forum now talk about seeing the eBay prices and looking to buy even more copies in future with the sole aim of turning a profit.
As I said in my earlier post, I felt very lucky to get a signed TB Ultimate, but I really wanted the other two as well. The first 3 MO albums are my favourites, have been since I first heard them in the 70s, and Ommadawn is the top of ALL my favourite albums by any artist - the one album I would take to a desert island.
So...I have since felt compelled to go the eBay route. No, SimonUK, I'm not quite wealthy enough to be your particular benefactor (or your sister's to be precise)! But I love these albums so much I really wanted these editions. The sellers I bought them off had plausible sounding and sympathetic enough reasons for sale other than just making a quick buck. In fact I had some nice exchanges of emails with them and they sounded like genuine fans. And even if the more cynical of you say those reasons could still have been stories, then I'm still more sympathetic to them in that they made those copies available for me, rather than the obsessives who sit on two or more copies just for themselves.
Rant over. My argument and logic is probably not airtight I know (unlike those collectors' duplicate copies), but I needed to get it off my chest whilst showing some support for SimonUK
So, nice one SimonUK. You'll have to let us know where we can next see your sister performing - it'll be cool to watch and think it's been in part made possible by Hergest Ridge!
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