Thanks for the tip. I think I already got there (or to a similar
destination), though.
I have done some ordering through blahdvd.com, which I think is pretty much
the same kind of entity as Play.com. I managed to order *and receive* a
copy of Octex 'Idei Lahesna' - a pretty esoteric item of Slovenian
post-techno electronica - for £8.99 P+P free.
I think Blah is based in the Channel Islands so there's probably some kind
of tax-free thing going on there. Dunno if it pays for US buyers to shop
there. I still like the 'personal service' element of the likes of Playing
By Ear. Eventually, I found that Blah started to get back to me and say
they couldn't source the disc they'd already taken my order for.
Blah indeed...
alan
--On 30 September 2005 13:24 +0100 "R.P." <rockin_pony@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 119 lines Alan, here's a good tip ;) i order most of my electronic CD's from
> Alan, here's a good tip ;) i order most of my electronic CD's from
> the cheap UK online shops, such as Play.com or Powerplaydirect.com .
> not many people know that you can actually buy electronic stuff from
> these very commercial sites! of course you can't find every
> electronic album there, but labels like Toytronic, Merck, Lo, Warp,
> Rephlex are usually available. and not for £12.99, but for a cool
> £7.99-9.99 :)) great deal, no ? ;)
>
> not sure how this is useful for american users, but i think Play.com
> ship worldwide (for free?), so worth checking out.
>
>
>
> --- Alan Lockett <Alan.R.Lockett@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> Depends where you're located.
>> UK-peeps like myself had it large for most of this year with the
>> pound
>> vacating its bladder waterfall-stylee all over the dollar. Arf arf!
>> Buying
>> from the US was a gleeful virtually BOGOF (Buy One Get One Free)
>> scenario a
>> couple of months back at $1.90 to the GBP, but now it seems the $
>> is wiping
>> itself down and drying itself off a bit.
>> So, in sum, all in all, not *Killer*, but still fairly Essential.
>> Which leads me on to... Boomkat: a good resource, but if this were
>> a friend
>> dropping in he'd be one who took his shoes off and put your telly
>> on full
>> volume and banged on too much till you needed to throw him out. But
>> anyway
>> at around 12 quid a throw for a disc on average that's still No
>> Snip even
>> for the pocket of a British trouserwearer. I prefer to exploit that
>> Special
>> Relationship.
>> So, yeah... I will say that I've always been happy with Playing By
>> Ear (but
>> don't go looking for a website); PBE has a good combo of prompt
>> service
>> and, if you want it, individualised recs and sharp informed
>> responses to
>> requests for appraisal. Good prices too, but cheapness isn't the
>> only
>> criterion, otherwise we'd all be trudging round
>> Wallmart/Woolworths/Kwik
>> Save (insert lo-grade cheapskate de-personalised monolithic
>> institution of
>> choice), and I prefer to support cottage/bungalow/mudhut/garden
>> shed
>> industries.
>>
>> alan
>>
>> --On 30 September 2005 09:59 +0100 Brian.Power@cso.ie wrote:
>>
>> > Forced Exposure
>> > Mimaroglu
>> > Amazon
>> > plus various mp3 dowload sites (emusic, bleep, finetunes,
>> beatport,
>> > audiolunchbox, playlouder.com)
>> >
>> > Just this week I purchased 4 Planet Mu releases on the web from a
>> US based
>> > retailler. The price per CD worked out at approx. ¤14. HMV here
>> in Cork is
>> > selling Mu Ziq's Bilous Paths for ¤27 ! No, that isn't a typo...
>> >
>> > The local indie shop could hardly do better than ¤18 or ¤19 for a
>> planet
>> > Mu release, given that they have what you want in stock...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 9/30/05, wells oliver <wells@submute.net> wrote:
>> >> Where does everyone order stuff online from? Now that Skimo's
>> gone I'm
>> >> just sorta adrift.
>> >
>> > I'm lucky enough to have a record store nearby that stocks all
>> the
>> > stuff I need. I used to buy online alot, but I never do anymore.
>> It's
>> > just too much risk with the postal service etc..
>> >
>> > Neil
>> >
>> >
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