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:
quoted 30 lines Forced Exposure
> 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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