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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1817901" data-attributes="member: 12706">I haven't lately, thanks to the 'net - now most things in this hobby are now fairly easy to find, and usually dirt cheap. but...I have an obsession with the rock group T'Pau - the group that sang "Heart and Soul" (and "China In Your Hand" and MANY other hits, for my overseas friends.) And before AOL offered the first unlimited monthly internet access, I had one heck of a time finding a copy of their second album, "Rage." I had gotten the first album, "Bridge of Spies," easily because it had a Top 40 hit on it, and I had caught the third album, "The Promise," during those few weeks stores had it before sending it back as un-sell-able. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> But "Rage" I missed when it came out, and was unaware even existed until right after I bought "The Promise." That took me 5 years, from the time I started trying to get it to the time I finally had two copies in hand, working at it at least once and usually several times a week. I would stay up until all hours to call record stores in parts of the world where I knew the album had sold to try to find a copy, and frequently ended up learning bits of their language specifically so I could call and ask properly and understand the answer. I placed a bounty of $100 for a copy at local record shops, and by local I mean every music store within 120 miles of here, and some in a few other states. Some of my friends and I even planned (jokingly?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) to go break into the home of Carol Decker (the lead singer) and steal HER copy, make a copy, and put it back - based on the theory that if ANYONE had a copy, she would. FINALLY, a store in the town where I live found a source and got me two copies - they said they figured if I didn't want the second one, it MUST be good enough to have a copy of in the store to sell to someone else. And even after they placed the order it took 6 months for them to arrive. I called EVERY DAY. I got to know them pretty well.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> They refused the bounty, but I did pay $25 a copy since they were imports.Then, less than a year later, we had unlimited internet access, and Ebay always had at least two or three copies someone was selling for around $5 or sometimes less in the rotation. Argh!It IS really good music, btw - check it out, it's cheap and easy to find on Ebay, so you won't have the problems I did to get it.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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