[Heart Bazaar] 1999.01.30 - Baobob (CD) [Album]
 

バオバブ (Baobab)


01. 「ねえ。」 ("Nee.")
02. フラグメント (Fragment)
03. 北風と太陽 (Kitakaze to Taiyou)
04. 白い夢 (Shiroi Yume)
05. コレクター (Collector)
06. やさしい場所 (Yasashii Basho)
07. くちぶえ (Kuchibue)
Total Playtime: 36:36

What part did Shiina Ringo play in this album?

Ringo plays keyboard on fourth track 白い夢

Mmm, neato. Thanks mon

i really like (liked?) heart bazaar, and unfortunately this indies cd goes for way too much on yahoo japan auctions.

Sometimes it'll sell for 4000-6000yen.
That's how I got mine.

The unavoidable expense is from trying to collect the rest of their discography. Some of their singles (especially their very last one) sell for more than most new albums, and you could go for months at a time (of checking everyday) without ever seeing certain singles show up. Their EMI-published album goes for a reasonable price though.

just following up on this very oldddd thread
 

even the band that satsuki formed after heart bazaar, haaka (?) ハッカ has their stuff go for quite a bit more than i though it would on yahoo auctions:

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h63003455

i would possibly think about paying 15000 yen for this auction, maybe:

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d79874090

i can't make the bloody youtube inline link work, so here's a regular link to a haaka video instead:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBEOdxWk3KY

Those prices are indeed the usual, but sometimes there's exceptions. You go months or years at a time without seeing individual hakka* CDs available for auction, then all the sudden two different sellers show up with the same CD in the same week. It often happens with other things I'm looking for. The second rare-auction-of-the-week will sometimes close for practically-stealing prices compared to the first.

I also have a Satsuki solo-career CD, called "Asian Folks". It was only 2500yen.

By the way, how did you find that closed auction? Were you watching it before it closed, or do you have a special way of finding closed auctions you've never seen before, after the fact? If you check the bid history, chaos_japan_smj was a competing bidder - that's Shopping Mall Japan bidding in their name on my behalf. Obviously I didn't win that first one, not only because I wasn't going to pay more than 6000yen, but the auction auto-extended from the other bidder changing their mind about how much they were willing to spend. That's what's so nasty about Yahoo! Japan Auctions.

As for the 15000yen auction, I believe that seller used to have the same collection with one or two of the missing Heart Bazaar singles, and they were charging 20000yen. That was around for at least a month, until they gave up. The 15000yen auction has since then been relisted quite a few times too. Meanwhile if you're new to collecting Heart Bazaar, this is a bargain. Too bad it doesn't include any of the albums, but it's much easier to find the two albums separately, than all of the singles. "Ai" alone is worth 2500-3500yen, according to previous auctions where I've seen actual bids. Digitalis is also more rare than most aspiring collectors know - you'll see one seller with a sample copy that they keep relisting, but you only see real copies on their own 2-3 times per year, and most of the bidders you'll compete against at the time don't seem too serious about it. 5600yen is almost worth it just for Digitalis and Ai together, while the other two singles are practically free. In some seasons Collector is impossible to find too. I would say the auction's true value is 7500yen. The other auction isn't as good of a deal, as its true value is 16000yen, but if you really want that hakka CD, then you might not have much of a choice. You'll have a much easier time finding Kitakaze to Taiyo and Collector on their own (to complete your collection), than the hakka CD.

*: I could be wrong on this romanization