The Beatles Fake Stereo Box Set (Part 2 of 3: Upper CD Stack)

How do you spot a counterfeit of The Beatles The Original Studio Recordings CD Box Set from 09.09.09? Let's find out! This Stereo Box set has been widely bootlegged, counterfeited, faked ... call it what you want, they all stink! This video explores how to tell a fake CD from an official in a detailed. informative, and (hopefully) entertaining way. These fake boxes are still in circulation, so protect yourself if you're looking to pick up the real thing. #thebeatles #fakestereobox #theoriginalstudiorecordings #beatlesbootleg

For quick reference:
1:48 Please Please Me
4:25 with the beatles
5:35 A Hard Day's Night
7:10 Beatles for Sale
8:15 Help!
9:05 Rubber Soul
10:07 Revolver
11:30 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Part 1

Part 3

The music used in this video is free to use under Apple's Terms of Service. Featured:
Pearl by Mark Mothersbaugh (Available in iMovie soundtracks)

[MagicalMysteryMike]

For quick reference:
1:48 Please Please Me
4:25 with the beatles
5:35 A Hard Day's Night
7:10 Beatles for Sale
8:15 Help!
9:05 Rubber Soul
10:07 Revolver
11:30 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

[jtmichaelson]

The fakes don't have the piracy warnings on the back of the CDs. Ironically.

[Fritha]

*looks at the Revolver back cover*
This is pure trolling at this point!

[finchlear]

I'm just surprised that a seasoned collector like yourself got duped. Love The channel !

[gerinthout]

Super bedankt voor deze goede informatie. ik had zelf ook een The Beatles Stereo Box set de piratenversie ontvangen thuis en gelijk weer geretourneerd. als mensen de legale Beatles Stereo Box willen aanschaffen is het verstandig om eerst deze video te bekijken en uitkijken waar je The Beatles Stereo Box set koopt en met een lage prijs is er meestal iets niet aan de haak

[zelly]

I got duped then I watched your three videos of disgust and saw the difference between the legit and the fake. Yes the printing is off yet the CDs sound great! There may be two momentary dropouts on two songs so bought the two albums and saved $500.

[moondogaudiojones]

Good job in pointing out the not so subtle, subtleties as in part one. But part 2 is hysterical! I wanted to be a lot angrier, but the replication just got so (horrifically) dang funny. I’m a fan of collecting everything Beatles, but, this is pathetic. Beware, the buyer!
You’re doing a great job. Thanks. Looking forward to part 3!

[dimitriballas]

You start getting suspicious with your Sgt. Pepper cd when you read on the bottom right of the back cover:
This is a duophonic recording
A splendid time is not guaranteed for all

[bond]

This fakes are a freaking nightmare, so F disguisting. Thanks for your work man.

[eddiemiles]

Excellent video Mike, useful as well. You'd think Apple would be onto the counterfeiters with the same heavy handedness they pursued the bootleggers back in the day. At least buying bootlegs you knew it was a gamble but with these counterfeits its just an out and out rip off. Feel sorry for true Beatles fans that have been duped...

[daytripper]

Thank you so much for doing this Mike. Everything you showed is exactly what I got from the one I ordered from China 5 years ago. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the CDs.

[richardwallace]

Strangely, I bid on an auction lot. I didn't particularly want it for the box set as I have them all in various iterations, what I wanted was the rest of the lot. When I took the box set out of the box I said "oh that's a fake" low and behold, it is. The video is fascinating, thanks.

[daytonsMusicRoom]

I had a hard day's night trying to read!

[liam-ashton]

Oh god, that is actually disgusting to look at. how do they manage to stuff it up so bad? Did they even bother TRYING to replicate it. yuck. anyways, great video as always mike

[joedee]

I am always amazed at the counterfeiters with the resources to produce so many of these fake sets! And for a modern set too in a time when the cd is supposedly dying yet there still seems to be enough demand to justify the (bare minimum) effort to produce these. Never buy from a seller based in China or Russia! Will you be doing a video on the counterfeit mono box as well? I feel like that one is probably more common as a fake since it was comparatively limited to the stereo set.

[lukeiovenitti]

Did you notice that nearly every cover has Emitex spelled incorrectly and that there are multiple types of misspellings? I had one of these and it’s great to open for a laugh!

[Edux]

In some of the booklets, there are misspellings. For instance, in "Please please me" page 5, you can read: "I have never seen a Britesh group leap to the forefront of the scene with xuch speed and energy". Also, most of the booklets have no page numbers at all. Finally, in all digipacks, Apple's logo is incomplete at the bottom of the image. My "A hard day's night" copy does not contain the video.

[Mariazellerbahn]

I checked my box set just to make sure. Everything checks out okay .. I have a genuine set.
I was pretty confident though, having bought it from HMV.
I have since added a few other CD's which fit into the box set and I've labelled them as such.
The CD's I have added are "Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl" / the 2xCD version of "Let It Be" / and "1".
I would like to add "Yellow Submarine Songtrack" but there is absolutely no more room in the box.

[westfield]

It’s amazing. I know about bootlegs which I’m a fan of but I had never imagined they would have produced a counterfeit of something officially already out there.

[daytonsMusicRoom]

MMM: Careful boys in that dark hall way
The BEATLES: COUNTERFEIT DID THAT