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I think I bought around 10 cassettes in my life, probably all of them in the eighties. I still have a tape deck though, and when I went Vortexbox 9 years ago, I digitalised some tapes on which there was stuff that otherwise probably wouldn't have been available anymore (including lots of my own music and music by amateur musician friends).

I haven't bought LPs for ages either but one or two friends sometimes give me LPs. No idea what was the last one I bought (I think an experimental electronic music LP on a concert some five years ago).  

I still impulse buy CDs on concerts (of course nothing happened for some time but I saw Kalifa Kone in Bologna outdoors with an audience of 50 or so last September and bought a CD, and very occasionally I buy on CDs stuff that I don't find as files; last seems to be Zoviet France: The Tables are Turning.


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Tull - Velvet Flute live 1995 bootleg.
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There is a 'recent purchases thread' under General Music forums...just a heads up incase you wish to look at it.
www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50878&PN=502

I recently bought old vinyl at a local shop:
Magna Carta- Seasons ( 1970...Wakeman plays organ and piano btw)
Steamhammer- MKII (1969)
Love -Revisited (1979) compilation  of tracks from the first 3lps)
Spooky Tooth /Pierre Henry-Ceremony (1969)
Les McCAnn- Layers (1973)




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I still buy cds and won't apologize for it. Lately I've been buying stuff from Kinesis who will be closing their website in a few months. I just bought four from them then two before those. Most of the stuff I buy from them is pretty obscure.Here are the last several: 

Ossicles - Music for Wastelands
Eye 2 Eye - The Light Bearer
Elleven-  Transfiction
Shamall - Questions of Life
Vangelis - Direct
Cromwell - Black Chapter Red
Novox - same
Schnauser - Protein For Everyone
The Amber Light - Goodbye To Dusk, Farewell To Dawn
Bolt - Movement and Detail
Emily Bezar - Exchange
Cosmic Remedy - same
Dixie Dregs - Bring Em Back Alive
Brother Ape - A Rare Moment of Insight
Yacobs - Time Machine
Violeta De Outono - Volume 7
Steve Hackett - Metamorpheus

I also occasionally buy cds from the Laser's Edge and Synphonic.



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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I also occasionally buy cds from the Laser's Edge and Synphonic
Laser's Edge is great. I know Synphonic sells on Amazon as ProgHeaven but the Synphonic website is dead. It was always an ordeal buying from them because you had to call or email the owner just to see if the item was in stock.
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

I also occasionally buy cds from the Laser's Edge and Synphonic
Laser's Edge is great. I know Synphonic sells on Amazon as ProgHeaven but the Synphonic website is dead. It was always an ordeal buying from them because you had to call or email the owner just to see if the item was in stock.

ProgHeaven must be his LLC name or something. I'm not sure but I recently received a package with that name on it. The website is not dead but it may as well be. At this point he should probably just stick with amazon or discogs(not sure if he's on discogs but he might not be). I spoke to Greg recently on the phone a few times and I forgot what he said. His website is not too good though. He does update it but someone messed up the code on the Italian section. I figured out to fix it but it seems he's not too concerned about it. It's a shame too. He runs a good business but his site is just not very functional at all. As for LE they do a good job too and have good sales items. Ken also sells other stuff besides prog which is good. Unfortunately he sent me the wrong Pearl Jam cd(which I happen to already have) but said I could keep it. Now I'm stuck with an extra PJ cd. Lol. 
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Nice idea for a thread.

The vast majority of my purchases are now digital, I still buy CD's when I can't get them digitally. 

CD's bought in the last 6 months

John Zorn - Bagatelles 4CD boxset
Philip Glass - 50 Years
Third Ear Band - Alchemy / Elements
Henry Cow - Collected Fragments Ex Box
Anthony Davis - Episteme

Generally I'm buying from Wayside, Discogs, ReR and Amazon (as a last resort)

I haven't bought any vinyl in 20 years, no idea what it was, probably Leonard Cohen, Susan Vega or Tracey Chapman.

Cassettes are even longer, I probably haven't bought one of those in 35 years, absolutely no idea what.

Edit - I just remembered I bought an LP version of Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins - Before A Word Is Said in 2017 by accident on discogs, I was trying to buy a CD. I sent it to a friend as a gift as I don't have a turntable.


Edited by Nogbad_The_Bad - June 02 2021 at 18:48
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I recently purchased all of the Flower Kings vinyl reissues. I also purchased some signed CDs from the Pendragon website.
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I still buy CDs all the time. I still keep a handwritten wants list of albums to check out/buy on CD.
My last CD purchase was that I was fortunate to win Cassandra by 25 Yard Screamer on an ebay auction today.  That's a long deleted CD that I've been after for years 
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My hi-fi should be coming out of storage in less than 2 weeks. I'm going to order something on vinyl which most likely will be BBT - Ingenious Devices
Struggle to remember the last physical thing I purchased as I've not purchased anything this year due to my interim living arrangements (about to end) and also my determination to rely more on streaming to cut costs (I will allow myself the occasional vinyl though). Could have been that lovely VDGG CD boxset The Charisma Years possibly. I tried to resist its alluring charms but ultimately couldn't do it!


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Universal Totem Orchestra - Mathematical Mother (vinyl Tongue)
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I currently have 8 LP's on order and en-route.
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

The last CD I bought was last week: Už jsme doma - Uprostřed slov (got an e-mail this morning that it was shipped today - yay!)

The last cassette was probably in 1994 - can't remember what it was.

The last vinyl record was probably in 1989? - can't remember what is was.

I can revise this post from two years ago.

Last CDs were bought yesterday from Bandcamp: 
Isobar - Isobar III
Klidas - No Harmony

Last vinyl was bought in December 2021:
Best of the Mummers, 13th Annual Musical Salute (1974) - bought at an antique mall for $2
I bought this for sentimental reasons. When I was a kid I used to watch the Mummers Parade on television that was held in downtown Philadelphia every New Years Day back in the late 1970s.
I inherited some Sesame Street records this year, but these weren't technically purchases.

Last cassette was bought in 1993:
Alan Parsons - Try Anything Once (I found the few remaining cassettes I had in storage and this was the least oldest in the box)
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The last batch of bargain CD's purchased just two days ago:-

Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
Joe Bonamassa - Sloe Gin
Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry
Gene Clark - No Other
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness
Matt Bianco - Whose Side Are You On?
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
The Who - Who's Next?
The Who - Tommy


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