For the uninitiated, Yahoo Auctions (Japan's answer to eBay) is a great place to pick up Goemon-related items which are next to impossible to get elsewhere. This includes rare OSTs, with auctions for the OST for Ganbare Goemon: Neo Momoyama Bakufu no Odori going for over $1,000.
Someone somewhere has decided to capitalise on this, and for a while now bootleg versions of the mentioned OST are turning up at a considerably cheaper price (around $200). As a result, collectors may think they're getting a bargain but in actuality they are being played.
Over on the Goemon International Forum I have made a post detailing how to identify a bootleg listing. I hope it will be of some use to you. The telling is in the details.
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