Last physical music bought - CD, vinyl, cassette..
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Topic: Last physical music bought - CD, vinyl, cassette..
Posted By: Rick1
Subject: Last physical music bought - CD, vinyl, cassette..
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 04:19
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Forget downloads, FLACs etc. What was the last physical format bought and when? CDs - The Faust Tapes, Greaves/Blegvad - Kew. Rhone, Brainville - Free the Brainville Three, Slapp Happy - Casablanca Moon (bought early 2021) Vinyl - Peter Blegvad - King Strut (acquired 1991 - I have not joined the vinyl revolution) Cassette - Chemical Brothers - Surrender ( bought 1999)
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 04:31
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I can't remember when I last bought vinyl or cassette (haven't joined the vinyl revolution and the only point of a cassette was to play music in a car so they are totally irrelevant now). Last CD I bought was the Magenta 20th anniversary CD/DVD, a couple of weeks ago.
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Posted By: JD
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 04:39
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Almost 1 year ago... Used LP's off Discogs. Chicago - Chicago's Greatest Hits
Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King Anthony Phillips - The Geese & The Ghost Gentle Giant - Civilian Man - Rhinos, Winos And Lunatics Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 04:39
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I still buy CDs online all the time; the last one I bought was Steve Vai's Passion & Warfare because I misplaced my original copy. I couldn't tell you the last disc I actually purchased in a store, though. Probably a Weather Report disc or something, lol. Maybe Miles Davis at a local shop downtown a few years back. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 05:03
| I've never bought music online and the last CD I bought was "Rush - Grace Under Pressure" from a charity shop for the bargain price of £1. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 07:27
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I buy CD's online only. Recent ones.. Frost* - Day and Age Lyle Workman - Uncommon Measures ni - Le insurges de Romilly French TV - All are failures are behind us Sloth & Turtle - s/t Transatlantic - The Absolute Universe (Extended version) Covet - Technicolor The Lickerish Quartet - Threesome Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 Chick Corea Trio - Trilogy Reuben Gingrich - Blue Island
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 07:32
That's one pound well spent.
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Psychedelic Paul wrote:Posted By: dougmcauliffe
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 07:45
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My most recent vinyl additions have been Cavalcade - black midi The Outer Limits - Voivod Unquestionable Presence - Atheist Living In the Past - Jethro Tull Freefall - Dixie Dregs Tormato - Yes ------------- The sun has left the sky... ...Now you can close your eyes |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 07:57
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I've never bought a pre-recorded tape cassette, at least not for myself. I think I bought a Chris De Burgh album for my mum on cassette, Christmas 1986. The last CD I bought - I think - was Royal Blood's 'How did we get so Dark?' The last vinyl I bought was Wasp Star: Apple Venus Vol 2 by XTC ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 08:09
It's one of only two prog albums I've ever bought from a charity shop - the other one being "Genesis - Wind & Wuthering". It makes a nice change from the usual cheap selection of throwaway CD's by boy bands and Pop Idol/X-Factor contestants, not to mention the ubiquitous Corrs and Simply Red CD's which no one seems to want.
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 08:14
It is indeed. I bought my original vinyl copy of Signals from the local chemist, back in about 1986 for £2. I thought I'd done well at the time. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 09:01
"I bought it for my mum, honest!". Just admit it Andy, you're a closet De Burgh fan.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 09:13
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Last CD bought, absolutely don't remember. Probably a used CD for a buck or two, I get CDs in LPs sometimes, but don't buy those on purpose. Cassettes, I have not bought one in 30 years. I have probably 3-4 carrying/storage cases of cassettes in a closet somewhere. Probably 300 or so tapes......I have been thinking of buying a tape deck. LPs I buy all the time, recent ones: Art Blakey~Witch Doctor, FreeForAll and Moanin' Miles Davis~KoB UHQR Transatlantic~3 PF~Meddle and Live at Knebworth 1990 Brand X~Unorthodox Behaviour Kansas~Monolith Marillion~Clutching At Straws -------------   
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 10:17
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Bought a used remastered CD of Crime of the Century at a used record/CD/DVD store in West L.A. called Record Surplus. MP3 and vinyl just don't appeal to me for whatever reason. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 10:43
I pretty much do Cd's exclusively these days.
All of there are very good BTW. |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 10:46
How did you like it? |
Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 11:02
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Just yesterday I ordered CD versions of UK's self-titled debut and Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh on Discogs. Additionally I went to a record store for the first time in over a year last week and bought The Beach Boys's "Pet Sounds" and Radiohead's "Amnesiac" (also on CD). Also last week I ordered a cassette of Dani Lee Pearce's "For As Briefly As I Live" on Bandcamp, which I think is the first cassette I've ever bought in my life. I don't plan to make a habit of buying them, but this is the only physical release from an artist who's meant a lot to me over the years so I felt compelled to own it. I do not own any vinyl. Maybe one day I'll concede and start collecting that too but for the moment financial and spatial concerns are holding me back on that front. ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 12:25
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Last CD bought was Transatlantic's latest The Absolute Universe: Forevermore, earlier this year. Last vinyl was ages ago, it was probably Wishbone Ash's Here To Hear around the late 1980s. I didn't buy many pre recorded cassettes, though I used to buy blank ones and record records borrowed from friends or the library
 the last one I bought was probably Queen's A Day At The Races when it was released. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 13:32
Not very impressed, but I can't complain for just £1.
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Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 14:31
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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'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 15:21
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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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Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 15:30
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Tull - Velvet Flute live 1995 bootleg. ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 16:25
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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 http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=50878&PN=502" rel="nofollow - http://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) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 17:38
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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. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 17:52
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 18:03
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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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: June 02 2021 at 18:38
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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.
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Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 08:35
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I recently purchased all of the Flower Kings vinyl reissues. I also purchased some signed CDs from the Pendragon website. |
Posted By: Cambus741
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 11:02
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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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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 11:07
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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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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 12:30
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Universal Totem Orchestra - Mathematical Mother (vinyl  )------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: JD
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 13:14
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I currently have 8 LP's on order and en-route. ------------- Thank you for supporting independently produced music |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 13:49
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) ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: August 03 2023 at 13:59
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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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