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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

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My music room is in lower level of my house in a large great room area. I keep about 80% of my collection in these bins I made a few years ago, the rest is in a few other crates. This is about 600 records....

It appears you don't keep things in alphabetical order. Do you have a system or just the large Name Tabs and/or just know where everything is?
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Originally posted by mellotronwave mellotronwave wrote:

A couple of months ago, I ordered some music from scope ( UK) , global amount round 100 euros. In Belgium, since july 21, one has to pay VAT for any purchase out of CE area. ( VAT 21% in Belgium ), . (Before 1 July 2021, one had to pay VAT only for value greater than 22 euro). Most of music sellers declared the goodies values < 22.
A few days after ,I i got the bill from FEDEX with an extra fee of about 25 euros
Thanx to the brexit , purchasing music from UK has become unpayable... same for ordering from Greg

The Anti-Brexit Elites  punish UK for leaving European Union. Make an example out of UK.  The European Union (and anti-Brexit- British Politicians)  could allow for cheaper than (outrageously expensive) postage if they so wished. It's not the UK Brexit voters making these rules.


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Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

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My music room is in lower level of my house in a large great room area. I keep about 80% of my collection in these bins I made a few years ago, the rest is in a few other crates. This is about 600 records....

It appears you don't keep things in alphabetical order. Do you have a system or just the large Name Tabs and/or just know where everything is?
Sorry late reply JD, just saw this........And correct, I don't keep anything in alphabetical order or release date order within each band grouping. I don't know where everything is and that's why I made band name tags. I only have my fav artists in the front of each row.
I prefer this system over ABC/123......Some people I have read also keep genre, release date, alphabetical and so on....that's too detailed for me I guess, a little loosey goosey is good.
It's my records, "git off my lawn!!!!" LOL
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I was flicking through the Steve Hoffman forum earlier and saw your post showing your collection.
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So I submitted my order to Greg at Synphonic and received it two days later. I cant say enough good things about Greg and his excellent store. He is a gentleman and a pleasure to cummunicate with and do business. I made a large order of 32 CD’s. Many of these CD’s are hard to impossible to find elsewhere and many of the ones that are available elsewhere are twice the price. The packaging was superb. He has a lot of releases I will be ordering in the future. 9 of the 10 releases not in stock will be by next month. A lot of RPI cds are on order for next month. I’m a big fan of this style. He had a lot of classic Prog, hard to get classic Prog and Prog from around the world. Also current Prog bands. The only other vendor I currently work with is my local buddy from Jersey Ken Golden. Ken has more progressive metal, new releases and jazz/fusion while Greg has more of and a constant supply of the classics and hard to find classics plus a lot of recent Prog too.    Between these two vendors my progressive rock listening will stay fulfilled. Just wanted to share some good news.   
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Greg has always kicked serious butt ~
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^ Amen. No one has better service than Mr. Walker. 
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Hey!
Just wanted to let you know that the band Bastian Per is giving away physical albums for free! All you must do to participate is submit you email on the following form:
If you have a friend that loves progressive rock and appreciates the physical format, it would be awesome if you could share this giveaway link with him.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Greg has always kicked serious butt ~



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Sadly, I probably won't use his services for a few years to come because of those stupid trade wars under the Trump mandate.  Cry
I just paid 42 bucks of custom taxes to import the Swiss band Circus' boxset from Japan (which brought the whole thing to almost 200) and it is roughly the same for the US.
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I've purchased from Greg Walker (synphonicmusic.com) for years without ever having any issues. The last time I heard from him was around Christmas time when he sent me my order. There were a couple of other CDs I wanted which he was waiting to receive in a few weeks after that, but then I never heard back after emailing him. I have since tried to contact him and I'm getting nothing, which is NOT normal for him. I actually called his number (never called before) and left a message about a week ago. There was no identifying greeting on the answering machine, btw. Still nothing.

I'm worried something's wrong with him. Does anyone know anything about this or if Greg is OK?
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I corresponded with Greg this past weekend. He is getting colored vinyls together for me. Otherwise, he has not been his cheerful self for some time. I even asked if he was ok last week out of concern. He did not reply. I’ll ask again, but I do not want to over step my welcome. I’m going through very personal problems myself I rarely talk about. It’s funny we sense other peoples problems and sadness etc. I hope Greg is ok. Greg is an all around great guy. He is in the Prog selling business for the joy of music, not money.
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Originally posted by PaulG PaulG wrote:

I corresponded with Greg this past weekend. He is getting colored vinyls together for me. Otherwise, he has not been his cheerful self for some time. I even asked if he was ok last week out of concern. He did not reply. I’ll ask again, but I do not want to over step my welcome. I’m going through very personal problems myself I rarely talk about. It’s funny we sense other peoples problems and sadness etc. I hope Greg is ok. Greg is an all around great guy. He is in the Prog selling business for the joy of music, not money.



I haven't picked up on any personal issues or sadness from him then again I haven't spoken to him on the phone in a while and it's difficult to tell over emails.

Anyway, he is a great guy and he runs a great business with a lot of high quality releases. However, the user experience of his website leaves a lot to be desired for several reasons. For one thing it takes me at least four clicks to get to the country I want. I think there must be better ways of organizing the music on his site and potentially better ways of ordering. It's like he's stuck in the 90s or something. That's really my only complaint though. Well, I guess also the fact that he can take a while to get back to you and sometimes it takes three tries. Him being out of certain cds isn't really his fault so I can't blame him for that.

He does it full time but he's probably not in it for the money like you say.
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