# China (and other Asia) Dopers, I need a favor

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 24, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-and-other-asia-dopers-i-need-a-favor/115736 "2002-06-24T16:52:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/china-and-other-asia-dopers-i-need-a-favor/115736/1 "2002-06-24T16:52:19Z")

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For reasons too trivial and complicated to explain, I really, really want to hear the music of **Cui Jian**. I did a Google search, came up with hundreds of sites with articles about how important he is to modern Chinese music, but no samples. I found his [home page](http://www.cuijian.com/), which claims to have samples, but I can’t get it to play anything. (Understand that I am technologically inept, which probably explains my above failures, and makes MP3s out of the question.)

So the solution seems to be to buy a CD. China Sprout claims to have them, but are always sold out. No one else seems to have them at all. Can someone over there in east Asia buy me a copy of **Rock n Roll on the New Long March** , or the **Greatest Hits** album that I’ve seen mentioned? E-mail me first (it’s in my profile) and we’ll work out a way to repay you.

Thanks in advance!