quoted 7 lines to wait for _Spanners_? If I can get a European copy for $18, why wait>> to wait for _Spanners_? If I can get a European copy for $18, why wait
>> half a year for the $16 domestic? That extra $2 gains me half a year of
>I agree that it would be great to get these things sooner.
>However, the difference in price is a lot more than $2 at the stores I
>visit. For an immported copy of Warp stuff I can expect to pay at least
>$20, and for a U.S. version no more than $13 or so. God bless Instinct
>and Astralwerks.
I just bought Black Dog's _Spanner_ and Aphex Twins _Classics_ for $23 each.
And it was worth every penny ( except of course for the AFX tracks that I
already had off the domestic Bubblebath I ). However, I did buy it at a small
store ( low volume, high overhead ) that deals mostly in hard to find imports
& lots of cool vinyl. I prefer helping these guys serve the idm niche than
paying some big stupid store $18 or $20 if they ever got the damn CD in ( not
bloody likely here ). And, besides, I hate waiting for a domestic and then
finding out it is missing a track or has a crap job done on the packaging. As
long as I am bitching, yesterday I was in such a rush to play track 2 of
FSOL-ISDN that when I tried to open it, the cardboad moved and the velcro
didn't, leaving a big rip in my Buggy G Riphead graphics!! Goddamn velcro
non-jewel box pain in the ass. Good thing CD's are made of nice sturdy
plastic. I am still waiting for music to come out on flat little cards that
have a gigabyte or so of micro-ROM on them for some nice digital, true random
access, 24 bit word length wonderment.