Your Prog Bargains
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Topic: Your Prog Bargains
Posted By: The Mystical
Subject: Your Prog Bargains
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 13:50
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What bargains have you gotten for prog? My greatest are: Pink Floyd - Animals for 50c on vinyl!! (secondhand, near mint) Yes - Drama $6 AUD on CD (brand new) Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick $5 AUD on vinyl (secondhand) Jethro Tull - Aqualung - $1 on vinyl (secondhand) Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans for $5 AUD on vinyl (without a cover, secondhand) Yes and Jethro Tull - 5 CD "Classic Album set" $20 AUD Iron Butterfly - Evolution $5 AUD on vinyl (secondhand) Shadowfax - Esperanto $2 on CD (brand new) And countless others... ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 14:06
Nice topic Off the top of my head, the answer I will give is a very vague, but true, one. That is that this site has opened me up to a world of prog which I would otherwise not have accessed, and that is a wonderful bargain. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 14:13
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I love me a good bargain! Off the top of my head: Francis Dunnery - Let's Do What Happens Gazpacho - Tick Tock Both CD's were found in the dollar section at my local used CD shop. The Francis Dunnery was my first by him and really introduced me to a lot of great songs. Tick Tock was a great find because it was so totally unexpected.
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Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 14:22
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Recent and memorable CDs:
Crossing the Styles by Gryphon for $7.00.
Hummingbird by Wakeman & Cousins, and Big Science by Laurie Anderson for $1.00 each.
Spiritchaser by Dead Can Dance for $4.00
Too many others over too many years to recall. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: zeqexes
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 14:27
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Off the top of my head I can remember that I bought Drama by Yes for 7 dollars (brand new). ------------- 
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 14:38
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Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall on vynil. the equivalent of 2 in 1981 Waters - Geesin - Music From the Body Original edition - The equivalent of 15 in 1985 (compared to today's proces it should be about 60 Bo Hansson - Lord of The Rings - English edition - I don't remember but I have payed it peanuts. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: *frinspar*
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 14:52
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I bought a milk crate full of vinyl at a flea market for $10 from a woman whose son was at one point stationed in South Korea, and a great deal of the albums were bootlegs with flimsy one-color covers. Most sounded pretty bad, but I still have a good deal of them and they consist mostly of 60s and early 70s rock and pop. A few solid names in there. However, among all that I found legitimate releases of YES "Fragile" and CTTE, and Jethro Tull "Benefit" and "Minstrel in the Gallery." There were roughly 30 albums in there, so I got them for around 33 cents each.  |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 15:11
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Hi, Bargains on ANY account ... not just progressive! Many, many and so many over 40 years that I am not sure I can remember them all ... but I can tell you that having found things like Focus, Hawkwind, Caravan, Quatermass, Roy Harper, Kevin Ayers, Capability Brown ... and so many other things, 40 years ago, still is, to me, a precious thing! And I have NEVER, found so much music in so little a time since then ... even with today's YouTube, and ProgArchives and what not ... and sometimes I wonder if the main reason why, is that there are too many opinions that throw you off the scent of the great music! The reality is ... I can't afford to buy it all brand new! That desire to find something new, and finding a surprise along the way ... can never replace most gifts that you can possibly get in your life. I also raked the used bins in many places, and miss Rasputins (Berkeley), and Django's (Portland) something fierce ... you could find things there. Everyday Music (Portland) is ok, but their organization is very messy and difficult to travel through and after a while you want to get out, just on account of the absolutely horrible choices of music ... some of their folks play.
------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Neu!mann
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 15:50
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...for sale in a Buffalo, NY public library a few years ago: a copy of Anekdoten's 1995 Nucleus album...for one dollar! ------------- "we can change the world without anyone noticing the difference" - Franco Falsini |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 16:14
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Pretty well right after we moved I bought a couple CDs from a second hand store online. My favourite for a while was a 1 disk sample of the 20 Years of Jethro Tull compilation. Something like $7 for that. (TAAB, A Faewell to Kings, A Change of Seasons were about the same each) I've also bought some music from iTunes, though $10 an album isn't too amazing. Probably the best deal ever, though, is being able to raid your parent's CD collection for free.
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 16:17
I have the entire Genesis discography all for under $100 
------------- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Floyd Steely
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 21:14
You win!
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Neu!mann wrote:Posted By: Floyd Steely
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 21:17
| Last year at a Chicago store, I picked up two used CDs: "Tarkus" for $2.99 and Yes's "Magnification" for $1.99. As a bonus, I ended up liking both of them much more than I'd expected to. |
Posted By: Gallifrey
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 21:50
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I found a 1000 limited edition new vinyl of Cynic's "The Portal Tapes" for $10 (about 7USD or 5 pounds). Was pretty impressed with that, even thought it's not my favourite. ------------- http://thedarkthird.bandcamp.com/ |
Posted By: bobthenob
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 21:53
| Seeing Genesis for $3.50 a show for 2 shows a nite for 3 nites.....value |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 22:10
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I Robot by Alan Parsons Project: 50 cents
Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield: 50 cents
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield: $1.95
The entire discography of Can: Priceless ------------- 
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 23:19
...my wife and I received free show tickets and after-show passes for Yes' 35th Anniversary show in Chicago from Hugh Manson, Steve Howe's luthier/guitar tech and friend of mine. Priceless!  |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: February 18 2013 at 23:32
Lucky ------------- War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 00:05
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I bought Recuerdos De Mi Tierra by Mezquita for 20 dollars and only listened to it once. -------------
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Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 00:17
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* An acces (first 1000 ticket holders to show up) to the Peter Gabriel rehearsal a couple of days before the UP tour started.
* Recently - 100 used cds (mostly prog, excellent condition) for 400$. ------------- |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 00:50
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i've acquired many LP's over the years which are total bargains - the real standouts would have to be:
EGG - The Civil Surface, mint for $6 AUD
WEB - I Spider, a bit worn but still very good, original Polydor for $7 AUD
GOTIC - Escenes - mint, perfect for $15 AUD
ZAO - Osiris, near mint $10 AUD
............the list goes on.........
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 00:53
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Tom, you wouldn't mind passing on your `Zao - Osiris' to a good friend, would you....?
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 00:59
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 01:04
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At the time, I probably had no idea what it even was! That's the second album, isn't it? If so, that's the one I really like, so I feel it's your moral duty to do the right thing and pass it on to me lol!
Actually, the Kew record fair is coming up just after I finish nightshift in a week or so, did you ever go to that one, and if so, was there much in the way of prog? |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 01:13
..........and I still think that when that dude, 'Jack' Colville, was selling off all his Euro-Prog goodies for next to nix, was the single most amazing person who ever graced a table at those fairs.........
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Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 01:33
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He's the one I got those gorgeous Jefferson Airplane `Takes Off' and `Bless It's Pointed Little Head' from at Camberwell with you that time, right? For a bargain price too, and they were pristine - record AND cover/sleeve.
I may skip the Kew fair, because the Camberwell/Box Hill one is only two weeks later. Hopefully some bargains there this time....but I can't help feeling the well has dried up at that fair.... 
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 01:56
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 02:02
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ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition for £2 on cassette back in 1976 started my journey. J M Jarre box set of everything up to Zoolook for £60 was very good value at the time.Perhaps not an out and out bargain but it probably would have cost about £90 to get all the albums seperately.(7 albums including one double The Concerts In China). I was very pleased with that one especially as it included a full digital remaster of Rendez - Vous which was not available in its single CD release.
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Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 04:01
Wise. ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 07:53
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I used to scour the dollar bins at the northeast Ohio record stores for bargains. Made a lot of nice one-dollar finds - Opeth's Morningrise and Colosseum's Daughter Of Time, just to name a couple. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 10:11
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Last week--Journey to the Center of the Earth, Ricks original version--$3.99---I thought it should be cheaper I'm looking for an affordable version of Tony Banks "The Fugitive" but it's no where to be found.
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 11:33
Found that CD in a used "We can't sell 'em" clearance for $.50. Also found OOIOO's Taiga in a Japanese pressing in the same bin. Babylon's self titled release was a door prize at 1999 Progfest. But nothing beats the Live Magma mp3's $2-5 from Amazon. ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 11:44
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I found a copy of Zappa's "Freak Out" vinyl album for $2. It was so cheap because the vinyl was not in very good shape, but I bought it anyway, as many of us would have, just for the cover art. A few years later, I lent the LP to a guy I went to college with, who was visiting Atlanta to see a Phish concert (that I was also attending) - he said he was going to make a T-shirt out of the cover art. I never saw him or the LP again. Don't do drugs, kids. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Stool Man
Date Posted: February 19 2013 at 12:47
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A few years ago I got "Aqualung" & "Tales From Topographic Oceans" & "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" for £1 each, original vinyl releases, in great condition. A few years ago I got "John Barleycorn Must Die" & "Valentyne Suite" & others for free, also original vinyls in great condition. I later sold one of the latter for over £60. ------------- rotten hound of the burnie crew |
Posted By: Ajay
Date Posted: February 20 2013 at 03:35
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I ordered National Health's two-disc set Complete and spent weeks waiting for it. I checked with the vendor and he couldn't tell me where it was. After more than two months' waiting I cancelled my order. The vendor refunded my money. The set arrived the next day. |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: February 20 2013 at 12:25
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Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: February 20 2013 at 22:10
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Back in 1977 I bought the first five Ange albums for 99 cents each at a record store that was ridding itself of its import section. Also picked up Camel's first album that day for the same price.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: February 20 2013 at 23:30
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Posted By: JesusisLord
Date Posted: February 21 2013 at 01:36
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Gentle Giant, Octopus....... 10 Cents ------------- And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Phillipians 2:11 |
Posted By: The Mystical
Date Posted: February 23 2013 at 18:20
Wowee! ------------- I am currently digging: Hawkwind, Rare Bird, Gong, Tangerine Dream, Khan, Iron Butterfly, and all things canterbury and hard-psych. I also love jazz! Please drop me a message with album suggestions. |
Posted By: mongofa
Date Posted: February 23 2013 at 18:40
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Pink Floyd -------------
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