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krj
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response 50 of 62:
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Jan 7 22:17 UTC 1998 |
Of course, cash is useful for other things. I still have this fantasy
of selling about 400 CDs to pay off half of the new computer.
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teflon
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response 51 of 62:
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Jan 16 23:27 UTC 1998 |
Wow. I just stopped in at Encore, and it was like "Wow", they had Marrilion
CD, which hadent been their the last time I was their, and a Black 47 CD,
which also hadn't been thier. I had planned on spending $10 to get a gift
certificate for my brother, and ended up spending aboutn myself. Because my
brother wants one of the CDs I bought, I ended up walking down to SKR to buy
him a copy at full price. WHOOSH there goes $20! It's just as well 'though,
since it turns out that the last track of my copy is a bit scratched. Never
the less, I was thouroughly impressed-Again!- with Encore. Wow.
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goose
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response 52 of 62:
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Jan 17 04:46 UTC 1998 |
Use optical polish (get it at LensCrafters or the like_ to get rid of the
scratch. Encore also guarantees their discs so you could return it if
you like.
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scott
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response 53 of 62:
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Jan 17 13:58 UTC 1998 |
Did I mention using toothpaste?
Of course, if the scratch is in the top of the CD, the disc is ruined.
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orinoco
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response 54 of 62:
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Jan 17 20:44 UTC 1998 |
Disc-go-round claims that they're getting a machine that will fix scratched
CDs, but I don't know when they're getting it.
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scott
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response 55 of 62:
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Jan 18 14:25 UTC 1998 |
Wow, I *really* like Encore Records. I found a couple of Jello Biafra spoken
word CDs (both double CDs), Daddy Longlegs (some of the people from Bop
(harvey) after that great Lansing-area worldbeat band broke up, and another
Stewart Copeland soundtrack.
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teflon
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response 56 of 62:
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Jan 20 23:56 UTC 1998 |
no, the scratches are on the bottem. That can really be fixed? Neat. How's
this toothpaste thing supposed to work?
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scott
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response 57 of 62:
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Jan 21 02:07 UTC 1998 |
A small dab on the fingertip, with some water. Rub radially on bottom (from
center to edge and back), then rinse, dry, and test. Deep scratches may be
permanent, but little ones I've had good results on.
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orinoco
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response 58 of 62:
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Jan 21 03:38 UTC 1998 |
Isn't toothpaste abrasive, though?
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krj
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response 59 of 62:
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Jan 21 04:24 UTC 1998 |
Yes. The idea is to buff out the big scratch.
I think that in some cases just taking the hard edges off the scratch is
good enough, but I have not had much experience with scratched discs.
Us old fogies, who owned LPs, learned to handle our music verrrrry
carefullly... :)
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orinoco
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response 60 of 62:
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Jan 22 04:02 UTC 1998 |
Unfortunately, dropped jewel boxes tend to pop open on impact, making a
scratched CD much more likely than a scratched record in one of them cardboard
sleeves.
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cmcgee
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response 61 of 62:
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Aug 9 23:43 UTC 1998 |
To revive a dead item:
In the auction conference I entered a request for someone to donate the
following cds to grex, so I could bid on them and get them for my very own.
If you have any of these, and are willing to donate them to grex, I'd
appreciate it. If you aren't willing to donate them but are willing to
sell them to me directly, it would be ok, too.
#4 of 4: by Colleen McGee (cmcgee) on Sat, Aug 8, 1998 (14:06):
Ok, here are some of the CDs I'd like to find:
Joan Baez "Hits/Greatest and Others", "One Day At A Time", "Farewell
Angelina",
Gordon Lightfoot "Sunday Concert", "Cold On The Shoulder", "Summertime
Dream", "If You Could Read My Mind"
Buffy Ste.-Marie "Greatest Hits"
Ian and Sylvia "Greatest Hits"
Judy Collins "Whales and Nightingales"
John Fahey "After The Ball"
Willie Nelson "Red Headed Stranger"
Red Clay Ramblers any albums
In all cases, I'm looking for the albums by these titles, not just the
title song.
either send mail to aruba to donate them to grex, or send mail to me if
you want to sell them directly.
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krj
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response 62 of 62:
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Aug 11 19:41 UTC 1998 |
I've offered to take Colleen's shopping list out for a stroll on my
regular tours of the used CD shops in East Lansing and Ann Arbor, but
I don't know how successful I'll be. It's often tough to go shopping
for a specific CD in the used market, as somebody wrote above.
Popular discs tend to fly out of a used store pretty rapidly; less
popular discs, the store tries to avoid ever having more than one copy
in stock. Finding a specific disc can often depend on hitting the
store just after someone has sold a copy... anyway, so somehow
there is a tradeoff between saving $6-8 per disc by shopping for it
used, and the energy involved in traipsing around the used shops.
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