Imagine my surp rise on buying a copyof Pink Floy d ’s album The Wall when Ientered China six weeks ago, to find that the song name Comfort ably Numb had somehow been trans lated into Come Fa rt ably Numb. And my amusement turned to despair once I discove red that only one of the two discs actually wo rke d. Twe l ve yuan not so well spent. This was my intro duction to the ch e ap but dubious wo rld of China’s CD pirat e s .