Progs exclusivity & distribution
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Topic: Progs exclusivity & distribution
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Progs exclusivity & distribution
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 07:18
Sometimes it drives me nuts trying to locate a particular prog CD that I want to buy ! I search all over the net , Take chances dealing with unknown sellers, but at the same time the search makes it all the more rewarding, each CD I get thats rare becomes like a successful hunting expedition and I wouldn`t part with it for the world (knowing how much work I have put into locating it !)  The nature of this pole is about exclusivity and distribution , does it bother you that prog can be a little tricky to find ? I mean its not like you can walk into K mart and buy it in most cases, you need to do some tracking down (unless its Pink Floyd).
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 07:25
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So far I've had no trouble getting what I want fron major on-line stores like Amazon, but that maybe I'm not looking for such obscure stuff as you. The only prog CD that has eluded me so far, is a Janison Edge (?) album. It was listed` on Amazon but was delted at the time. Couldn't find a copy on e-bay either. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 07:29
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Blacksword wrote:Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 07:34
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There have been Hawkwind albums I can't get anywhere, but I'm guessing many are deleted. There were some that Amazon didn't list that I knew were not deleted, but thats only been the case for Hawkwind...and I wont ose sleep over that, I have more than enough Hawkwind albums.. I bought 'As the World' by Echolyn from there, and they didn't seem to have many Echolyn albums listed. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 07:40
(Ive been a fan of hawkwind for years ) I even had a video of them live, it was good too, till the video machine chewed it up 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 07:48
I'm chasing.. Sonic Attack The three calvert albums dont seem to be very popular among many Hawkfans, but I loved their sound and approach to music at that time. I've had them on vinyl for years, but the last time I saw one of them on e-bay the bidding was over £75 for PXR5 That said there was a DVD of their 1984 Stonehenge show on Amazon, which I will get round to getting. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 08:02
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 08:47
Easy! Order it here, old chap.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000258TW/qid=1140356716/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/026-8414464-5058848 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000258TW/qid=1140 356716/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/026-8414464-5058848 ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 09:40
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The other day I was walking into one record store and found King
Crimson's Lizard and Island. I can understand there are some Pink Floyd
and some Yes, but King Crimson? now that was a miracle! And in another store not to far from the other one, I found ALOT of prog but the modern ones. There where alot of insideout bands and other labels. That was the time when I bought the BE DVD. There are some good bands in there but I want the 70's ones ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: February 19 2006 at 10:31
Meh, Soloaris cds can be hard to find. The only copy I've found is on amazon....for $35.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 03:44
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Ever since I have made the step toi do some net shopping, I find no problem whatsoever to find almost anything i want. I must say that Greg Walker of Syn-Phonic has an incredible catalogue. My local record shop orders almost anything I ask him to. And he has no problem if I do not even take what he brings in on my advice if I do not want to buy it Then there is Music Emporium In Namur (Belgium) , this is like Ali Baba's treasure cavern. Amazing how this guys can operate such a shop with such unfashionable discs sitting in his racks. Almost everything the average proghead could wish for Only a few Quebec prog still to be re-issued and the odd rare stuff such as Tea And Symphony's second album Jo Sago are still lacking among the stuff I really want the rest will be throughout my research and musical adventures/meanderings ------------- 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: sleeper
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 06:05
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^ your lucky, I've yet to find a shop that really caters for prog. HMV and the like have the more famouse stuff (Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Dream Theater, PoS, etc) but things like Anglagard are impossible to find. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 07:42
| Try: mailto:[email protected] - [email protected] from http://www.progwalhalla.com - www.progwalhalla.com , he is specialized in progrock cd's and dvd's! |
Posted By: Norbert
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 07:47
| Yes, it bothers me. Local music shops are obviously not ran by progheads. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 08:11
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IF you go to a small record shop and you order something you know you will like, leave a downpayment so he is sure you will come back and buy it, he will do it. The customers are getting too razre to afford not making new ones. the guy I go to, was and is a metal place but also catered some progmetal, mostly because I asked in the mid-90's to order some , then since I did not buy them , he directed those Cds to other metaljeads and now progmetal is his biggest market . So he orders prog regularly. Just worked a trust relation with him. Yes he is more expensive than megastores, but so much more flexible. But this guy is willing to sell fridges to Eskimos ------------- 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: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 17:32
I found Acquiring The Taste the other day for like 5 bucks at a used CD store. I almost peed myself  ------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 20:02
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I hate ordering cds, I wish I could just get them all from local store like a hip-hop fan. -------------  
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 20:10
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for me its ok i love to search for rare CD´s on the internet its exciting for me to wait for the mailman to check if he has my parcell.. i see it like christmas or my birthday... something like that ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: stan the man
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 20:11
it annoys the hell out of me. our stores are so bad that they dont even have emerson lake & palmer and god forbid they have gabriel era genesis. of course they have loads of phil collins stuff  ------------- true as a lobster in a pteredaktyl's underpants. 
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Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 20:38
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That's exactly how my local stores are. Tower Records has everything, but at unreasonable prices most of the time. I don't have a problem finding that stuff on line, but the rare, imported CDs are sometimes difficult or lacking in numbers, and that aggravatesd me sometimes. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:46
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It annoys me too that some prog CD's are hard to find. Like Magellan's debut album or Michael Romeo's solo album. And when I find them, they are imported and costs a fortune!! However, sometimes they're cheap too. Depends on which store or online store you visit though.. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 22 2006 at 15:58
I cant find Terria in any store... im sad  , maybe i have to order it on the net.. but i dont like it so much..------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Violenza
Date Posted: February 23 2006 at 07:39
| I found King Crimson's debut, a few Yes, Genesis, and Frank Zappa albums in local CD stores, but that's about it. Although I did manage to find Mr. Bungle and Fantomas in an HMV of all places. You just have to swim through thousands of Green Day albums to get to it though. |