Monday, May 10, 2010

Look what the postman brought me today

Back in early April I bought a copy of Dangerous on vinyl off of ebay. It was from an international seller so I knew recieving would take some time. I communicated with the seller about shipping and everything. Things seemed to be going smoothly. Flash forward last week. I was on ebay, browsing through vinyls as I always do when I get my pay check, and I decided to check the profile of the seller of the Dangerous vinyl. Low-and-behold, his ebay account was deleted. Immediately red alarms went off for me. It had been over a month and I already paid this guy in full, and suddenly he was no longer an ebay memeber. I immediately texted my friend whom I share all things about ebay, vinyls, and MJ. Shortly after that I opened a case on the item(ebay's answer to a legal system via the internet). A couple of hours later I got an email from the seller saying his store would never steal 40 bucks from someone and he had to delete the account because it was hacked. I will not lie, I was extremely wary of this excuse, but I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. As well as the fact that I really really wanted this vinyl. It's extrodinarily hard to find at such a low cost. Heck, it's extrodinarily hard to find AT ALL. Through the seller's soothing words of "Please be patient. After all this is shipping from Italy and you are all the way in Texas. Let me know when you recieve the item," I began to waiting process all over again.
Today, as I was watching television in the living room, the door bell rung briskly. I got up and saw it was the mail man- and he was holding a big, flat square box. At first I thought it was some other vinyls I ordered recently. As I opened the package, the contents of the box took me by surprise. Hallelujah praise the LAWD. I finally have my Dangerous 2X LP on vinyl.




Another addiition to my growing MJ vinyl collection.



I recently ordered Got To Be There and The Jacksons' Destiny. I still have HIStory(extremely rare to find), Blood On The Dancefloor(also rare), and Invincible. Then I can work backwards from there and get all his solo stuff back when he was at Motown, and the few J5 and Jackson albums I still need for my collection.

And just because I LOVE this singles cover.
Dirty Diana 12"