Steven J. Gross
Well-Known Member
Harry said:Meanwhile back to Sergio...
Since I spent last night at a hotel near work, due to the fact that every possible route I might take home was closed due to flooding, I didn't have an opportunity to check out any more stores for FOOL ON THE HILL.
Today's adventures included a web search at my local Borders to see if any of them had it in stock. Seeing that one close to work was listed, I headed over there at lunchtime. I looked around in vocals - they had CLASSICS, GREATEST HITS, GOLD, and one of those Collectables discs, but no FOOL ON THE HILL.
Then I looked in the World Music Brazilian section - nothing there, but I did see a bunch of other artists in that Brazilian GOLD series, like Ivan Lins and Caetano Veloso.
Then I looked over in Jazz, since they sometimes list Sergio as Jazz. Nothing there, so I went over to their Title Sleuth computer, looked up FOOL ON THE HILL (digipak), printed out the slip, which said it was supposed to be in Jazz, looked again in Jazz, deeper either way in the alphabet, found nothing, and headed for Customer Service with my handy-dandy slip of paper that said they had it.
The somewhat snotty clerk said that if it wasn't in Jazz, that they only had one copy and someone might have bought it. "Would you like us to order it for you?" she asked, not realizing that I already owned three CDs and two LPs of the album. The point was to go to a brick & mortar and find what I was looking for!
Remembering that another, farther away Borders also listed it in stock, I headed there.
Nothing in Jazz, nothing in Vocals, nothing in Brazilian, ask the somewhat more willing clerk for help. This time HE looked it up on the computer, found that it should be around, and of course he looked in Jazz. Not finding it, he suggested that it might still be on the new release cart. (Why the new releases weren't put out YESTERDAY on release day is anyone's guess, but that's another story.) After a quick look through two carts, he decided to call his manager, who suggested that it HAD to be on the carts - look more carefully, there was only one copy.
I then suggested that we were looking for a digipak, to which he said, "What's that?". I described what a digipak was, and he said, "Oh yeah!"
Finally he found it on a lower cart shelf - the only one they had, and I rushed to the cashier to pay for it.
There it was, in all its glory, finally FOOL ON THE HILL with the proper cover art, and it was MINE!
I opened it eagerly in the car and listened to it on the way back to the office and on the way home tonight. It sounds fine, but I haven't made any comparisons yet. I *think* I can hear the HAECO-CSG processing, but with a headcold that I seem to be getting, life in general sounds like it's got HAECO-CSG processing on it!
Harry
...having a bad couple of days, with some good points, online...
I had to ask for the easy listening section at Tower- that alone is funny- but there it was!
I think the Rebound issue sounds better! - the new one has better yet flawed packaging. More on this soon.