Thursday, November 23, 2006

My First Ever Music Compact Disc


The Best of The Tremeloes, 20 songs, 1992 Rhino Records, Made in USA.

This compact disc, enclosed in its jewel casing and sealed inside a long paperbox, was bought in 1995 from a small CD shop previously situated on Level 2 of OUB Center at Raffles Place.

It's my first compact disc ever bought and I'd bought several more compact discs from the same shop for another year or so, many of them sealed inside long paperboxes. These paperboxes are collector's items today and I still keep them in my collection.

That CD shop had closed down two or three years later, perhaps due to the 1997 Asian currency crisis, resulting in the 1998 economic downturn that badly affected its business.


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