I ordered a few CDs from them about six years ago and they all turned out to be pirate/bootleg CD-Rs with poor quality sound (LP pops and hissing noises) and homemade inserts. However, none of the CDs that I ordered were copies of official releases; they were each scores that had not been officially released on CD and so had been burned from LPs or some other unknown source material (at the time I was a relatively new collector and I was naive enough to believe that I might actually receive original CDs from them). To their credit, they did allow me to send the CDs back for a full refund once I expressed my displeasure at the poor quality of the merchandise.

I'm not sure what you'd receive if you were to order a CD that has actually seen a recent official release. Would they send you an original or a pirate/bootleg copy of the original? Who knows? I wouldn't take the risk if I were you. I learned that lesson the hard way six years ago. In my opinion, ordering anything at all from them only encourages them to continue their illegal and unethical operation. How these crooks stay in business at all is a mystery to me!

American.Nightmare, January 7, 2007; 9:44 PM

"How these crooks stay in business at all is a mystery to me!"

I suppose they get their money from the many collectables they're selling......i guess they're not faking the collectabels, figures and statues but they don't care about record copyrights, so they fek cds. That's the only solution i can think of...

philkws, January 8, 2007; 9:51 AM

I was talking from a legal standpoint. I am surprised that they haven't been sued by the companies that own the copyrights.

American.Nightmare, January 8, 2007; 1:12 PM

When I found MIM a few years ago, I think from a google search, I was impressed by their catalog and ordered about a dozen soundtrack titles. Several I received were legitimate commercial CDs. Several others, however, were CDRs. Some turned out to be illegitimate copies of commercial releases that had presumably gone out of print, and others were CDRs of vinyl LPs that had never been released on CD. I didn't know how to find that out in advance at that time, before I discovered SoundtrackCollector.com. Weirdly, one of the CDRs they sent had a label, but nothing recorded on it. I emailed them and MIM quickly sent me a replacement with the music, though what I should have asked for was a refund.

To sum it up, they sell both legitimate and illegitimate stuff, but they don't tell you in advance what you're going to get.

betenoir, January 8, 2007; 4:35 PM