I ordered Neil Young’s 1992 album Harvest Moon from a third-party seller on Amazon.com about a week and a half ago.
This past weekend, I found a used copy of the CD at Academy Records and bought it, figuring I could use the copy I’d ordered online as a gift.
Last night, I realized with a start that what I’d ordered was also a used CD and therefore unsuitable for gift-giving. I would be stuck with two Harvest Moon CDs!
Today the shipment arrived and something happened that’s never happened to me with an Amazon.com third-party seller before: they sent me the wrong CD, a used Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show greatest-hits collection.
Ha ha!
As it only cost $3.25, it’s not worth my trouble to return it.
Also, apparently “Cover of the Rolling Stone” wasn’t Dr. Hook’s only hit. An older, lightly acid-toasted coworker of mine at least appreciated hearing “Sylvia’s Mother” for the first time since the year of my birth.