Aerosmith "Rocks" SACD survey

Some recent discussion of this rare item got me thinking. There seems to be some debate over how rare it actually is and whether or not it was ever officially released. Poll results, rather than anecdotal evidence, might help clarify matters (or not ).

Select any option(s) that apply to your personal experience.

 

Not seeing a poll yet.

I think it's pretty conclusive, only one copy ever surfaced on the collector/open market. The rest made were probably destroyed.

 

Tell that to carrolls in the Rocks cd thread

Poll should appear momentarily. I decided to make it public so a bunch of anonymous jokers couldn't claim to have the disc (edit: well, I meant to make it public, but it looks like I botched it. )

For those who have seen it somewhere somehow, please specify if it was marked as a promo if you know. I didn't want to overload the poll with options, so I left that out after the two "I own it" options.

 

I assume you know it but, it is not even listed at SACD.net...

 

Good idea for a poll. The only thing that will settle the issue related to Carrolls' claims will when/if he ever provides a photo of his friend's alleged copy, but at least this thread can indicate if anyone's ever SEEN a copy.

I suspect most of us are aware of the one that was discussed on the board and that's it, even though - according to Carrolls - there are TONS of them out there! :LAUGH:

 

One person out of three voted that they own a copy, so obviously there are thousands of these floating around.

 

This choice may skew your results:

I have seen a used copy for sale on-line

The reason, a forum member actually owned this disc, and sold it or had it for sale on-line.

I didn't vote for that selection, because I truly believe you may get a lot of responses for that choice and it may leave people believing that more copies exist than actually do.

I voted for the last choice.

 

I actually saw a new sealed one at a Best Buy in San Antonio in the early days of SACD. Should have grabbed it. No idea if it sold. It may be sitting at some guys house who has no idea of its scarcity.

 

This is true, but somebody in this poll already voted that they actually own it.

 

Wow!!

 

I never saw it, but then I'm more into vinyl anyway

 

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=84094

Just for reference, an actual disc in pictures.

 

I voted that I had seen it online for sale but that was the forum member who posted photos and gave a link to his eBay listing.

 

Years ago I saw a new sealed copy at Media Play in the Pittsburgh area. I almost bought it, but then I ended up purchasing something else instead.

 

Wow - it seems more people than I thought saw sealed copies but passed on buying (as I didn't think this thing actually existed in sealed "commercial" form).

I would have given my left "you know what" to have come across a sealed copy; I would have purchased it in a heartbeat.

 

Maybe a case of mis-remembering, or confusing with "Toys In the Attic"?

 

I've seen this picture online. Any others?

 

Didn't the original guy who found the Drillout have to take it out of the cellophane to prove it was the real deal? Well that what he said, and I trust him on his word.

 

Thanks Pibroch, I had my post on hold until since before you posted and I didn't see yours. Thanks again.

 

His copy was sealed with a promo drill-out.

No copies have been verified as for sale in a retail environment. A few people "saw" one, but I find it hard to believe that if there were really out there at retail, no single person picked it up. And we have a lot of SACD-hounds around here

 

This.

 

I'm almost positive it never made it out for retail sale, at least on the East coast. I was a fan of the format from the beginning and was very diligent in keeping abreast of the small SACD/DVD-A section that Best Buy had in each store. Best Buy carried virtually every mainstream Pop/Rock act in that section which Sony had released on SACD, including the other known Aerosmith SACDs.

Aerosmith was easy to remember as they had their own little divider, right in the beginning of the section in the top left corner of the shelf. I never saw a Rocks SACD in my weekly visits to multiple stores. This was not a section that had a lot of turnover in stock, items would not sell for years.

 

It was actually on sale in Japan 10 years ago as this cached page seemingly shows. If I owned a record shop 10 years ago, I would have considered buying some of my stock online, especially if it was OOP in my own country. I'm not sure what the exchange rate was for 2534 yen in those days, but anyway.
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I voted that I saw one because I remember seeing it. I guess I migh be mis-remembering, but I'm not that old. Best Buy had a small SACD section and there wasn't much turnover - items would be there a long time. I guess not too many people in the area were into SACD/DVD-A. I used to semi-regularly go to the Best Buy and a Circuit City to look at their SACD's. I don't know why I didn't buy Rocks. I might have thought I would wait for a MCH release. I'm pretty sure I only saw it the one time. It may have been pulled from the shelf and destroyed or returned to Sony if some order to remove stock came down.

It certainly wasn't considered a rare or highly in demand item at the time. I wasn't here, so I was getting all my SACD/DVD-A online discussion from The Audio Asylum.

 

It was out there. You are correct. The whole idea of Sony distributing it, recalling everything, but making one cut-out, distributing it to a single store and destroying the rest is beyond insane on so many levels starting with logistically. What a ridiculous idea.