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One 6-year set of a BBC-series and two feature films that somehow I missed was DOWNTON ABBEY (2010-2015) + (2019 & 2022). Over the past month, during and after recovery at home for a medical treatment, I binge-watched the whole shebang from start to finish. I loved the series, the films, and John Lunn's music. Now I am looking to fill in the John Lunn CDs missing from my collection. One hard-to-find CD is SHETLAND, a 2018 Silva Screen release that for some reason is already rather hard to find. I did see a posting somewhere that the first pressing of the CDs was sometimes blemished with some sort of defect. Is this true? Apparently, Silva Screen never released a second pressing.
I'm offering $200 if anyone has an extra copy for sale, or is willing to part with their own copy, or knows where they can get a copy for me.
Silva Screen doesn't have a copy (I had a UK seller check for me). The usual soundtrack sellers don't seem to have any copies either.
Yes, I am quite aware that SHETLAND is available digitally. I don't do digital, unless I am reluctantly forced to do it. And I'll pay a good price for a hard-to-find physical CD.
Any takers??? Or am I doomed to go digital. Let's see what turns up.
Here's hoping. Fingers crossed. Etc., etc.
My e-mail is in my profile.
Ron Burbella
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I would suggest keeping an eye on Discogs. A copy sold back in July for around $30. You might have to wait a while, but copies pop up from time to time.
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Thanks for your suggestion. I'm way ahead of you. It has been added to my "Wantlist" at Discogs, so they will e-mail me when the next copy comes up for sale. I like that feature. Did the same with Ebay.
After comprehensive searches of three continents and Japan, starting with Firefox, then with Google Chrome, and then with Microsoft Edge, I may have located a copy at the www.fnac.com website. I put an order in and hope that I won't get the dreaded "Backordered" or "Out-of-Stock" message when they realize that they don't have a copy to send. I got that time after time from many links. Time will tell if it was worth the struggle as a new customer with the French-only website.
Using the exact same search terms in each search engine, you can turn up slightly different promising links by using different search engines.
Ron Burbella
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Feb 16, 2023 - 1:38 PM
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RonBurbella
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Thanks for all your suggestions. I've taken note of them all in my searches.
I've contacted various out-of-print soundtrack sellers in England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere. So I am on their CD adar screens. But no luck yet. As added incentive, I have raised my minimum offering price to $250 US. The last copy that I can find that was sold was in Australia over a year ago for about $75.
As a (temporary) last resort, I have gotten the score from Amazon Prime Music, which sounds fine on a homemade CDR. Sound Forge converts the Amazon .cda audio file to a .wav file, which is how I like it. I then use Sound Forge to burn the CDR. So I havemusic, and it won't be a major loss if I never find the Silva Screen CD.
Apparently, when they have been asked, they (Silva Screen and/or John Lunn) say that they are working on a SHETLAND (Volume 2) future release.
Still on the hunt.
Ron Burbella
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