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I've been dropping by the one in San Fran. The prices are often way over the top - $34 for "Logical Progression" 2CD, $44 (yes, $44) for the "Story of Mo'Wax" 2CD - a BIT more than what you'd pay in smaller stores. Virgin however can often have import stuff in pretty quickly; last weekend I spotted Logical Progression as well as Carl Craig's DJ Kicks CD, which even Mod Lang didn't have. They also have a separate "techno" section as well as an "acid jazz" section where Mo'Wax or Ninja Tune stuff pops up. Their CDingle section is small but has most latest stuff, for those remixes of not-so-IDM artists. I think the best part about Virgin is the import section that's mostly non-IDM. If you're willing to pay the price, you can get Japanese imports like older Pizzicato Five or the Japanese edition of the Dubstar album. (Good thing I got them all in Japan. :) James Jung-Hoon Seo // Oracle New Media (415) 506-3829 // jseo@us.oracle.com Excuse me, do you like pineapple? // Chungking Express

On Wed, 24 Apr 1996, James wrote:

quoted 3 lines I've been dropping by the one in San Fran. The prices are often way over the

> I've been dropping by the one in San Fran. The prices are often way over the > top - $34 for "Logical Progression" 2CD, $44 (yes, $44) for the "Story of > Mo'Wax" 2CD - a BIT more than what you'd pay in smaller stores.

$44 for a new double CD? Wow. That's crazy. Is there anyone in their right mind who would ever pay this much for a newly released double CD? It may get to that point one day. Prices seem to keep going up. And I thought $25 for a domestic double was high... I've seen some crazy prices as Tower. I'm starting to regularly see some single European import Cd's for $30 (US). Man, if this ever becomes the norm it's just not worth it. I'll just buy the odd release here and there and keep listening to what I already have if it comes to that...unless I win the Lotto or something. Props to people like Fax (and Ear/Rational and other good stores) that make import CD's available here at domestic US prices. They could certainly charge more (and sell them) if they wanted to. T.

quoted 3 lines Remember in the 80's that we were told that CD prices will come down

> Remember in the 80's that we were told that CD prices will come down > from $15 (US) to around $10 as economies of scale occur? We all got used > to $15 so - just like taxes, they never came down?

When I first started buying CDs street price for a typical disc was between $15 and $20. Ten years later I can go to Best Buy or Media Play and get virtually any domestic CD for $12 (and often much less for backlist titles). Figure in what inflation has done to prices on other things over those ten years and "real" CD prices have in fact gone down quite a bit. I'll also point out that if CDs hadn't entered the market, we'd probably be paying around $12-$13 for LPs by now. -- ::: Lazlo (lazlo@swcp.com; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo) ::: Selling Fax/techno/synthpop CDs - email with subject GET AUCTION for list