I bought a Soundgarden CD (A-Sides). I opened it, put it in my CD player and realized right off the bat that this was not Soundgarden. It was country music. Bad country music. It had a different number of tracks and everything. I took it out and looked at it. It said “Soundgarden / A-Sides.” I played it again. It definitely wasn’t Soundgarden. So what the hell? Has this happened to anyone else (especially anyone who has this particular CD)? How did it happen? Does this even make any sense? Thanks for listening.
I order from BMG a lot. On my very first order, I ordered a Dixie Chicks CD. They wound up sending me some Spanish CD instead. I couldn’t find any return address to ship it back. I didn’t try looking to hard, because even if I were to ship it back, it probably would’ve cost me an arm and a leg.
I’ve never had the right CD play the wrong music. This is as close as I’ve gotten, Zero.
This happened with a game CD from Hasbro a couple of years ago. A bunch of people tried to by Boggle (or something similar, I don’t remember anymore), but got Monopoly World Cup Soccer edition instead. If you contact the company chances are they are aware of the mistake by now and will replace it.
Probably both CD’s were pressed at the same plant and just got mixed up. Back in the mid-80’s, somebody bought Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and got a Beatles CD instead. The interesting part was that the Beatles CD wasn’t available yet. AND THE GUY RETURNED IT!!
I’ve bought a CD only to open it and…no CD. I then looked at the wrapping and it wasn’t the usual cellophane. Most likely someone opened the case, stole the CD, and then rewrapped it.
This happened to the CD of the Jesus Christ Superstar video. The first pressing had a computer program on it. Since it didn’t play, people returned them to the record store, the company was alerted, and they were recalled. However, word was out about the mistake, and collectors started begging the stores for them. I got a blank copy of it. After hearing the real thing, the blank one sounds better.
I’d keep it. Those mistakes only increase in value.
I thought this was a thread about CD catalog companies sending consumers CDs other than the ones they ordered. This used to happen to me all the time several years ago before I abandoned CDs for Napster. Bothered me to no end, and it justified (in my mind) all those people who rip of BMG and others by changing their address or using fake names.
I’ve had this exact thing happen. I bought a copy of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, but the music was a trumpet concerto (don’t remember which one). Keep it as an oddity, or return for an exchange.
I bought The Beatle’s “Beatles For Sale” recently and the disc had Pink Floyd’s “Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” on it. The worst thing about this was that I discovered this when I was stoned out of my mind. I had plopped the disc into my 5-disc player, and started on another CD, sat down at the computer to do a little surfin’ on the net, lit up a big doobie, and proceeded to enjoy a nice little groove…until I realized I was listening to something I had absolutey never heard before. I started looking around, wondering what was the source of this strange music, and then I realized it was coming from my stereo :eek: !!! I walked over, opened the cd player…hhhhmmm the CDs in the player seemed in order…hhmmmm what is going on!!! Played each CD and got to “Beatles For Sale” and AHA!!! Laughed my stupid stoned ass off until I could laugh no more.
The closest thing i’ve had happen is when my Let it Bleed CD had the tracks in the wrong order, but I don’t think it was just mine with that problem…and at least it had all the music. Just in a diff. order than it said on the back. Freaked me out when I first listened to it…
Worked at a record store (early CD era). Customer wanted to return a Motley Crue cassette because it ‘sounded funny’. Popped it in the deck - it had the heavy drums and bass of a metal band, but the singing was country. Obviously two different songs, but when they meshed rhythmically, it was hysterical. Evidently two taped were dubbed onto one cassette (or one was dubbed and not fully erased). I bought the tape from the customer and kept it until it finallly broke.
Bought a copy of Strauss’ “Das Rosenkavalier” with Teresa Stratas, popped it in the tape deck. The whole thing played BACKWARDS. Yup, like it was backmasked. Still have that one.
