Where do you get your music?
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Topic: Where do you get your music?
Posted By: Lindsay Lohan
Subject: Where do you get your music?
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 04:57
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Alot of progressive music is hard to get forexample i have had trobles finding both kayak, high wheel and even getting hold of colosseum. Where do you go to get some lesser known artists? |
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Posted By: Bob Greece
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 05:01
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http://www.amazon.co.uk - www.amazon.co.uk or http://www.amazon.com - www.amazon.com
------------- http://www.last.fm/user/BobGreece/?chartstyle=basicrt10"> 
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Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 05:02
------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 05:04
| This thread's handy for me, actually. The last time I had money to spend on CDs was about 9 months ago, and back then I mostly used amazon. Now I've got a MASSIVE load of far more specialist CDs to find and I need somewhere which is either based in or ships cheaply to the UK. Any ideas, Felona? |
Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 05:11
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TP ... greg at http://synphonic.8m.com/ - http://synphonic.8m.com/ has really good prices and ships up to 5 cds for $5 w/out cases. I've always had very quick service from him - he is very friendly & helpful. ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 05:17
Ahh! I've looked at this guy's catalogue before - amazing range! I'm just a bit nervy about ordering from America. Still, if you recommend him then he must be reliable!  Looks like I'll be starving for my first weeks at uni!  |
felona wrote:Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 05:24
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TP ... look...don't worry ... he sends me stuff all the way to Oz and if the package can survive the handling of Neandertal aussie posties ... it'll be safe in the hands of your well-mannered British Postmen Pat's ... and the gentle paws of their black-and-white cat's ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: S Lang
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 06:47
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I can definitely support Felona's recommendations for mail order from the States. It's somewhat bizarre that I got a lot of British prog from there costing less than obtained through the UK.... Most of Bill Bruford solo albums at US$ 6 !!!! In Australia they sell for A$ 60...! In the UK perhaps half of that.... Avoid David Crosby's mail order - if it still exists - not that they would have much in prog, but they had Jean Luc Ponty. They sent me the wrong stuff, overcharged and never responded to my querry. Yes, that's him from "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
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Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 07:02
ooo-eerr ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 07:07
How do you pay in $'s? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Sekkyoku
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 07:10
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Great swedish prog-webstore: http://www.missingpiece.net - www.missingpiece.net |
Posted By: S Lang
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 07:48
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How do you pay in $'s? I'd say, use your Credit Card, pay attention to the fine print, including postal charges charged and take on board the recommendations about decent businesses, most of which are also Prog lovers... |
Posted By: Jools
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:00
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Try these, from the mainstream to the very obscure of prog:
http://www.gft-cyclops.co.uk/ - http://www.gft-cyclops.co.uk/ ------------- Ridicule is the burden of genius. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:01
| I too have recently discovered how little prog there is available in the major UK retailers (see my recent "HMV and Prog" thread). I did find IQ's Dark Matter in Virgin recently but have resorted to mail order recently, either from Amazon or the artist's own web site. |
Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:03
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just use your credit card as normal - they'll work out the conversion automatically - i have an Aus and a UK credit card and have no problem paying in $$$ ... more's the pity for my bank balance!! ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:05
Thanks Felona....you're so sweet.. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:09
------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: Tanuki
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:33
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i can't believe ppl buy from amazon. they're twice the price most places. the laser's edge is good, but i mostly use bigballoonmusic.com. the range isn't alway's huge but when they have a sale they go down to $11 US. insideout should set up a US shop. the prices on the european one are obscene!. |
Cd Baby was good when i wanted to get Echolyn related stuff too.Posted By: felona
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 08:39
well actually you can sometimes get some good deals from the amazon *shops* - or whatever they're called - used/nearly new/new stuff from independent traders using amazon to advertise etc ------------- I was never really sure what I was waiting for. When the moment came I was looking away ...... The Church "After Everything Now This" |
Posted By: Sit Ubu Sit
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 09:56
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http://www.mp3search.ru/ - http://www.mp3search.ru/ Pretty good site for mp3 downloads for only .10/song. Their prog selection is somewhat limited - you can check out their catalog before joining.. |
Posted By: gabbel ratchett
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 11:00
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Ebay & ebay's Half.com are places that I have found lots of good buys at. The shipping at Half.com is usually very reasonable, credit cards or paypal for most transactions. ------------- dead things don't talk too well, they've got a shaky sense of diction. |
Posted By: Phil
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 11:09
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Call me old-fashioned, but I just like visiting a record store, looking
through & picking up an album, and buying it - there's something
very tactile and satisfying about it; I suppose it reminds me of the
excitement of going out to buy a new release on vinyl "when I were a
lad..." These days I guess internet sites like Amazon etc are cheaper but its just not as much fun - only exception is if there's a rare CD, then the internet sites are often better at cheaply sourcing especially from the USA (I'm in the UK!) |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 11:10
I like nothing better, but it's so rare for me to find a CD of genuine interest in a real store. |
Posted By: stripthesoul
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 13:32
In Montreal, there used to be a great store that specialized in prog and metal albums. It was an amazing place; one of the few actual physical stores where I could walk in and browse and find stuff I wanted to buy. Unfortunately, I haven't been to that city in a while, so I have no idea if it's still there. I have a feeling it might not be; it didn't look terribly prosperous the last time I was there. *sigh* Prog is such a niche market. ------------- "Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings." --Cheris Kramerae |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 16:30
Posted By: bobthesalesman
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 16:32
Used Record stores and Soulseek  ------------- www.myspace.com/thepianowar |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: August 30 2005 at 21:21
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You really shouldn´t complain! I live in Argentina, were for some reason, you dont get many prog albums...and why is that? Well there isn´t a wide market here,there are not so many people (now) that like or even know of prog. Let me put it like this...I dont have 2112 from Rush...and not because I dont want to, I dont have Octopus from Gentle Giant ...and not because I dont want to, I dont heve The Power to believe from King Crimson ( in fact I dont own any `90-`00 Crimson album)...and not because I dont want to. The big stores dont have many only one or NONE Crimson album. The only bands you can bet your ass that are everywere are Pink Floyd ( who ironicaly sells big time here...), Yes and Genesis. But you can get prog, if you look for it. For example I buy vinyls! I got Starles and bible black ( which I later found in cd...and also bought) and Larks tongue in aspic ( which I also found on cd but didnt bought) from KC, Close to the edge from Yes ( which can easyly be found in cd...I also have the cd...but bought the vynil first because I wanted the classic format as well), Free Hand from Gentle Giant and finally Rushs Hemispheres and Permanent Waves... I could buy albums on line...but the dollar here is a little expensive, so every album would cost me three times more. ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 08:03
That's a real shame, there's only one thing to do - emigrate for the sake of your prog collection! |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: August 31 2005 at 15:14
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Record Fairs are a good place to buy prog or any music, I could spend hours perusing cds at them, in southern England they have them about once a month in the large towns. I dont find Amazon that expensive..Soulseek is even cheaper though
------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 01 2005 at 23:10
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Syn-Phonic Amazon Half-Price Books CD Warehouse Best Buy |