internet orders or local record shops?
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Topic: internet orders or local record shops?
Posted By: thanos
Subject: internet orders or local record shops?
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:18
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i personally prefer record shops ------------- for any comments:[email protected] |
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:24
| Internet shops: records in local shops are expensive, ther's no choice, it's noisy and crowded, the vendors know nothing... |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:24
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I am fortunate to live in a state that has a chain of 14 stores called Record and Tape Traders that carry nothing but rock and metal cds.If they don't have it,they will order it for you at no extra charge and you get it within 5 days at the most.I find most of my prog cds there. I only order cd's online if I can't find them there,which is rare. -------------  |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:28
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I have got no alternative except online.There was this cool record
shop,called Rock-A-Roll-A,where I started my prog collection about 3
years ago,but now it's the same all stuff there,plus recently it moved
to Nowhere's place...so I have my collection from online hunting.
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:29
| Record Shops and Internet Orders. |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:38
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I have both options. for online I prefer Synphonic and Jazzis, and I have two local relatively unknown prog stores, which have a nice collection and have a policy of 1 cd for free for each 10 cd's you buy (they give a card which they mark upon the number of cd's you bought). I do the majority of purchases online as they offer a much bigger collection than stores even though the shipping costs can be a nag, but what can you do? ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:45
All of the above , hell I will even go to garage sales hoping I find a misplaced gem 
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Posted By: Christian
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 08:48
| I also do both, recently I found mysleft buying alot directly from InsideOut online shop, but noting beats a couple of hours in a well assorted record shop |
Posted By: The Rock
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 09:00
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We're fortunate enough to have a prog specialist store in my Town,but even if they do carry lots of stuff,there is always some items missing. When I order online,I do it through the small independent stores like Synphonic,Record Heaven and Doug Larson.All of them have huge selections and offer fast and reliable service,not to mention reasonable price.I avoid amazon and the big ones. ------------- What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop" |
Posted By: GFoyle
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 09:58
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Definitely local record stores (store). We have a great store here in Helsinki for serious music lowers, which is cheap, has good service and has a great collection (and is willing to get the albums they are missing if you just ask). |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 10:34
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although more expensive, the local record shop does allow you to have the object in your hands and put an ear on it before buying it. I do roughly 50-50 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 10:41
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For me internet is a too expensive option, because its all in dollars, and the shipping is also very expensive...so I must seek my prog from the stores...it really sucks because a lot of things I MUST have like any good proghead are either nowhere to be found or way to expensive...it really sucks ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 12:57
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I buy almost all cd's at Internet-stores. They're most of the times cheaper, and where I live, there's no good record store. Maybe in Lille, a French city which is not so far from where I live, but I still have to check that out. |
Posted By: SaintVitus
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 13:28
Are you blind or what?...why are you always writing with letters of this size??? - it always looks like you are screaming when u use these big letters and everybody else not. ------------- Space Is Deep |
el böthy wrote:Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 13:41
If he uses (like me) a very high resolution, then the regualr letters like these, seem very small and the ones he used are regular. That, or he just likes to point out what he says  ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: SaintVitus
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 13:49
wow....and i thought i use a very high resolution  ------------- Space Is Deep |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 13:55
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Sometimes ordering, sometimes buy in store. Depends on price and if the store have the CD im looking for! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: D.Noisserger
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 14:20
I'll choose record shop if there's an interesting one near from me. But I prefer internet anyway. 
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Posted By: Ray Lomas
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 14:34
I think I know the shop you mean. Every time I go to Helsinki I visit there. Unfortunately where I live there isn't such good record stores. So sometimes I order also online because it's easier to get the more rare albums. But I like to support the local record stores too. |
Posted By: Paulieg
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 14:44
I do all of my purchasing through internet shops. There aren't any record shops worth going to here in Jersey.
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Posted By: matti meikäläin
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 14:57
| AMAZON.COM !!!!!!!!! They have all the music in thw world !! I alvays order my albums from there + CHEAP AND QUICK |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 15:22
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I haven't ordered anything of the internet... yet. I usually go to a nearby shop and they order my prog needs for me (no extra costs). However, it's been three months or so since I ordered The Night Watch and it still hasn't arrived. A good thing is that in record stores you might find some prog albums, and since nobody except your local town fool (us) likes them they cost only half of the regular price of an album (sometimes even less, like the time I saw Camel's Raindancers for 4,99 euros but didn't buy it ).However, as The Night Watch is taking so long and the shop man said he can't order any Gentle Giant, I might have to resort to online shopping. I download too, but usually just a few songs so the album I plan on buying still holds surprises for me. ------------- http://www.soundclick.com/rosescar/ - My music! "THE AUDIENCE WERE generally drugged. (In Holland, always)." - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: Kid-A
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 15:32
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70% internet, 30% shops i like to buy in shops but they are expensive and don't have a great selection. However if you go in sales you can pick up a few bargains. I got Roundabout - the best of yes live for £3 at borders, and Pink Floyd live in Pompeii for a tenner |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 15:39
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I get a lot of my CD's from eBay and than sometimes if I see a CD I want at a
record shop and its moderately priced, i might purchase it. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: Zenith
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 15:51
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http://www.mamut.com/progrock - http://www.mamut.com/progrock Mostly on the net. It's limited what you can find in stores. ------------- We're only in it for the music!!! |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 15:55
| Nowadays a mix of Amazon and eBay. I have exhausted the prog titles I like in our HMV and Virgin shops. They are also pricey unless you are lucky to hit a gem in their sales. There are some excellent UK prog sellers on eBay worth giving a try. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 10 2006 at 16:13
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about strictly 100% internet for me... though there's this old hippy
that owns a mom and pop 'brick and mortar' that I've come to know well
who gets me my 'krautrock' stuff, unfortunately he doesn't have
access to the more 'exotic' stuff, so I get my Italian and other
'foreign' prog from Amazon or Syn-Phonic Music. He's a trip, a big
Hawkwind fan, also love to hear him tell stories like the time he
saw VDGG in a coffee house in Laurenburg N.C. in 1969. Oh those
were the days.....
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 03:04
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I used to buy on Internet until 1999 when a suposedly serious online store charged US$ 4,727.00 on my credit card (What was left of the credit line). I had an insurance on that credit card but it costed me 10%, after 5 months the store admitted it was a mistake caused by a virus, but the insurance never returned me the 10% because they said they had already settled the claim with me (Something that was true according to our laws). I could fight in the court, but the insurance of the credit card had a clause that submitted me to the laws of Cayman Islands, for $473.00 it was not recomended to go to trial (Being that the insurance was almost for free, Peruvian Insurance and Bank Super Intendence admitted that hidden clause). Since then I started seeking for small stores and found one that always has great albums, and only buy something on the net through very seccure stores and using a debit card that works with a saving account and I don't deposit more than 100 or 200 bucks when I want to buy something. Iván
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Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 05:50
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I order my cd's by the internet because it is more cheap and you can
get nearly everything there (I only have problems to get Gentle Giant's
album "Civilian")...
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 08:00
wow, that's quite the story... and a cautionary tale. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 11:16
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It's not that big of a deal- lay off. Internet- always. ------------- |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 11:36
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Which shop do you go to? By Pm if you wish ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: SolariS
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 11:43
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i have to go internet because i live in atlanta, and the only thing you can find in music stores is lil john and other "crunk rap"
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Posted By: Frasse
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 12:14
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All of the three... |
Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: February 11 2006 at 17:33
| Local stores and downloading. |