best prog vendors?

My votes:

www.kinesiscd.com - my fave - lots of MP3s which makes shopping for obscure prog a safe experience. Plus fast service

http://synphonic.8m.com/ - unbelievably huge catalogue, extremely fast service. Plus owner Greg Walker has been thanked on most prog albums in the past 20 years, so you get to deal with prog royalty. No MP3s though. Sniff.

www.progrockrecords.com I haven't ordered from them, and they have a smaller selection, but they have lots of MP3s.

www.amazon.com Strange but true, they have a lot of obscure albums, and a growing number of MP3s.

Any others?

felona wrote:  I fully endorse the above praise of Greg at SynPhonic ...  lightning fast responses

It's almost as if he lurks by your mail box, and 1 minute after you place an order, it's there!

felona wrote: Have you any experience with Doug Larson?  ... he doesn't   reply to my emails so I take my custom elsewhere

I havent', but I'd like to try him since he advertises on progarchives, and ergo I imagines help underwrite this lovely web site.

Arsillus wrote: Holy Smokes!! These places have astounding prices!!!! Why didn't I hear about these places sooner??!?!?!? Ha, screw Best Buy from now on....

  don't worry, you're not the only one ... I only discovered these places over the last year ... I don't even want to think about what $$ I could have saved if I knew about these guys earlier ... oh well, at least you know NOW!! 

HAPPY SHOPPING

Arsillus wrote: Holy Smokes!! These places have astounding prices!!!! Why didn't I hear about these places sooner??!?!?!? Ha, screw Best Buy from now on....

If you know what you want, Greg Walker at Synphonic is hard to beat. His import albums are usually the cheapest around, and shipping is fast.

My experiences of still existing prog vendors:

http://www.synphonic.8m.com

Greg Walker seems to get a lot of praise. He deserves all of it. The #1 place to buy prog!

http://www.hicom.net/~dlarson/

Used only a few times and service was good.

http://www.lasercd.com

Has some great bargain cds which I occasionally purchase. This vendor used to be a lot better years ago. For example, I remember purchasing lots of Italian prog classics for just $9.00 each!! Nowadays Ken Golden concentrates much more on prog-metal and metal in general. My assumption is that he made this change because metal sells a lot better. Good for him.

http://www.btf.it

Used only a few times and service was good. Store of the Italian Vinyl Magic label.

http://www.eventyr-records.it

Italian vendor that I have used in the past two years. The service is good.

http://www.mandmmusic.com

I haven't used this vendor for years and I'm not even sure if he stocks new items anymore. This was my first online vendor and I used to order a lot from here. The service was good.

Haven't used yet but I'm going to make my next order here:

http://www.waysidemusic.com

Not really any bad experiences so far!

It depends where you are on this planet.

In the UK:

Amazon.UK

Leicester's Ultima Thule (Audion), especially for Krautrock and European prog. Because of the Freeman brothers' some times contraversial views, can be a lively debating place on Saturday afternoons - literally nextdoor to Leicester railway station in Conduit Street.

In the States I've used

Artist Shop - which specialises in US indie labels and imports

Abstractlogix: excellent discounted base for jazz rock fusion, world jazz fusion - has a number of mpeg to sample, e.g. Hellborg and Lane - but not adversed at selling straighter prog, e.g. David Cross's new album should be available there v. soon.

Geezer, I have also just listened to some samples of a band called il castello atlante ... very akin to LDF, PFM etc ... I had to search very hard to track their stuff ... eventually have 2 last albums on their way ... I can send you some MP3s when I get the cds, if you haven't heard them yet.

Yes, I would prefer being President of the GW Fanclub  because as secretary I would be in charge of the financial matters ... and would be tempted to embezzle all  the $$ and give to Greg by buyng his Cds  ... hey, come to think of it ... that would be ok wouldn't it  ...