Local Aviation Historian Will Chabun shared the following anecdote involving his daughter Rebecca:
"Rebecca had bought a CD from the HMV store that used to be in the
Southland Mall. She brought it home, removed the plastic wrapping and
discovered — horrors! — a CD by another pop star had been incorrectly
inserted into the advertising jacket and plastic case.
No problem. Rebecca and I got in the car and drove over to the mall. It
was quiet and the young guy at the till listened as I explained our
problem and asked for a swap out. He was very courteous and full of
apologies, which led me to ask if that sort of thing happened often.
Turned out it did, he said. It seems that when the big record companies
are putting together CDs their assembly line would have a certain
number of pre-recorded CDs and a certain number of plastic containers
with liner notes. Usually, things worked out, but every now and then the
assembly line would be short one or even more items. But the assembly
line couldn’t stop to sort these out, so they were fixed as customers
brought them back.
The young guy behind the counter said the strangest such error he ever
handled revolved around a young mother who had bought her son a CD of
the songs from Barney the Dinosaur.
Imagine her surprise when she opened up the CD — and it turned out to be “The Collected Speeches of Adolf Hitler.”
Indeed.
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