Message-ID: <3523742C.9C22427@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 06:19:09 -0500 From: Les Jenkins To: megami@usagi.jrd.dec.com Subject: Re: SM Sountracks Reply-To: megami Christopher Jefferson wrote: > Fellas, > > The funny thing was, I went up to a mini-convention in Daytona Beach, FL > this past weekend ("AnimeExpress '98") and one of the folks travelling > with me had almost nothing in his portable CD collection save Son May > CD's. That leads me to believe that he picked up most of them at various > cons for bargain prices. Then came the shocker: even at the con we > attended, the other three guys I was with were able to purchase CD's for > fifteen bucks a piece! Who made these CD's you ask? Son May. The > contrast with Anime Weekend Atlanta couldn't have been more pronounced. > There, for instance, one couldn't purchase a GFC CD for under 35 dollars > U.S.. I suspect that those CD's were the real deal. I didn't look, but I > think that in Daytona they were unloading their SM stock.8-) As for me, > I stuck with an Urd key ring and a "Ghost In the Shell" t-shirt. Cons have been, indeed, one of the major places to find SonMay CDs and not just at anime conventions, but a lot of Sci-Fi conventions that have a dealer with some anime wares. Fortunately, many of the bigger cons these days are banning the sale of SonMay CDs. I wrote an editorial about this whole issue once for Animecca in which I chided the dealers for being greedy (cause they can sell more SonMay CDs which have a higher profit margin despite the lower price). > Still and all, Son May succeeds because of the financial imperative of > cheap CD's. I have not bought one because I accept the arguments of Les, > et al, that the original manufacturer and the seiyuu artist (for > example) should get the fruits of their labors, not some pirate in > Taiwan, Macao, or Shanghai. I have a couple of SonMay CDs myself which were, like someone else mentioned earlier, gifts from people who didn't know any better as well as two that I bought myself back when I didn't know any better. Since having learned better I've gone out and bought the original CDs in order to make up for the error. Les -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Les Jenkins is The Casual Otaku (http://casualotaku.dreamhost.com/) To email me remove the words NOSPAM from my address. Atheist #1085