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I should perhaps have specified that I wish there were a soundtrack store like that in NORWAY, LOL! Yeah, like that’s ever gonna happen.
My Discogs store is at your service.
Did anyone ever use Intermezzo? I often read about them but since the site is Italian only basically… Yeah, I can use Google and since I had Latin once I do understand a few things but it is inconvenient.
I recommend them. It’s easy to order from the store with Google translate activated in the browser, but the site can be very slow to navigate. Their customer service is okay, although they can be a bit grumpy.
Total? €55. Now comes the exciting part. Will they arrive at Nick’s place? What will the shipping be to Norway? Will the Norwegian customs office refuse to accept the “gift” marker and toll me anyway?
And will the items be in the conditions described?
Plus, many of them have perfectly fine OSTs already, as far as I can tell
Well, albums like WHERE THE BOYS ARE, BURGLAR and STONE COLD has
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one previously unreleased track by Levay. (STONE COLD had no album before)
But also some missed opportunities, like BODY ROCK, WILDCATS and RUDE AWAKENING, all of them failing to include the track of score originally on a 7″ vinyl B-side.
Will the Norwegian customs office refuse to accept the “gift” marker and toll me anyway?
Of course not.
Will the Norwegian customs office refuse to accept the “gift” marker and toll me anyway?
Of course not.
I think this should be fine.
Link?
Okay then, but I won’t be able to ship during the next two weeks. If anyone wants an item, let me know and I’ll mark it as sold.
Not online but some this seems to fit in this topic: Thursday I visited my public library’s main location and in their basement they have a flea market where they sell all books, CDs, DVDs etc. that they either get donated or remove from the borrowing catalogue for 1 Euro each. Lots of pop music, classical stuff and whatnot but I found two scores. I hadn’t them on any watch list but for that price…
– James Newton Howard PRINCE OF TIDES – Somehow didn’t have this at all but remembered the main theme being nice. Indeed nicely flowing score.
– And this compilation of German Youth drama movie scores or so. I had a vague memory of the main title from DER SOMMER DES FALKEN”. Some nice tracks with mostly small ensemble and and a bit pop flavor: https://www.discogs.com/de/release/10049085-Matthias-Raue-Martin-Cyrus-Der-Sommer-Des-Falken-Original-FilmmusikFor some reason I didn’t also take Ry Cooder’s PARIS TEXAS because I thought I had it somehow but so far I can’t find it so far. Well, you sometimes loose the oversight …;-)
Then I decided to visit two 2nd hand shops that were more or less on the way and where I hadn’t been for several years (we have still a few of these shops here). The first had only a very small row of uninteresting soundtracks.
The 2nd was bigger and had far more. They have CDs but focus is LPs. They have 2nd hand and new stuff, quite some new LPs score releases (expensive…). I bought a medium rare Mike Post score on LP for 3,- (well, 6 co-written songs plus 3 score tracks, never made it on CD or even digital – haven’t listend yet). This one I actually had spotted on their discogs page and was a primary reason for the visit.
Of course I also scanned around. As expected no real rarities but you could get some older release for under 10 Euros. Nothing I really really wanted so I resisted to buy anything more… for now… 😉But, guys, it was so much fun to scan through LPs and CDs like in the old times again. I think I will do this more regularly from now on again. Interesting was that there were a lot younger people half my age and less. Even a boy around 13-14 maybe who was apparently known and allowed to unpack packages of new arrivals. I think I heard he told the shop clerk that Ska, Punk and Rock were his favorites 😉
Obviously, in the earlier days, I used to spend a lot of time in record stores. When I lived in L.A., I used to spend a lot of time at Tower Record Stores (mostly in Northridge, less so in the further away one at Sunset Blvd.) In Cologne, Germany, there used to be the Saturn Music Dome, which at that time claimed to be the store with the largest record collection in the world. Obviously, I have never been able to confirm that, however, it was the largest record store I knew. In its heyday, the classical music section alone were two department store floors. It was huge, and I’ve bought a ton of albums over there as well. Cologne’s Saturn Music Dome is interesting, because I knew that store from way back in the 1980s when I started to buy film scores, and I’ve seen it’s “rise and fall” so to speak. It’s gone now, that store does no longer exist, it’s floor spaces made way to a gamer paradise in 2022, the upper floors are now offices; the (though of course, the name “Saturn” still exists as part of an electronic retail chain).
I rarely browse in record stores these days.Obviously, I have never been able to confirm that, however, it was the largest record store I knew.
In Hamburg we had WOM (World Of Music) which was a whole basement of a huge building. That’s long gone as well. We still have some Media Markt here and the main one within the city still has CDS but it once was nearly a whole floor. Now the half is LPs and the CDs share the space with DVDs/BluRays and are a tiny rest of what was once…
I rarely browse in record stores these days.
Yes, I don’t as well and I was not in these shops for 10+ years. But I will do more often, you might find unexpected things although it will be harder because anyone can easily research the value online so there will probably no real surprise bargains anymore…
Gosh, I miss those days where I trot around Oslo, visiting various record stores (both first hand and second hand). Haven’t done it in ages, because a) it’s difficult to find deals, and b) I don’t really have space for random additions.
But those were some good finds, Malte. PRINCE OF TIDES is a fine, Barry-esque score by JNH.
PRINCE OF TIDES is a fine, Barry-esque score by JNH.
Fun fact it is actually the only JNH score I have on CD as I only have several digital ones. I had DAVE once I think but it seems to be one I sold to a 2nd store probaby 15-20 years ago… Needless to say I would not do this anymore as it even back then didn’t really pay off…
I’m in a pickle regarding delivery of a package. I recently placed an order at ginza.se, who have stopped shipping to Norway. Therefore I selected a German forwarding service as the shipping address, but it turnes out Ginza’s only shipping option goes to a package delivery box, not directly to the receiver. Unfortunately, the shipping forwarding service doesn’t collect packages from package delivery boxes.
I might have the option to have the package resent after it has been returned to Ginza, but the only available destinations are Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Germany. If someone on the forum residing in one of these countries could help me out and forward the package, it would be much appreciated. I will of course pay for the inconvenience.
I’ll be staying at my father’s summer house in Denmark in all of August (health permitting!), so I could possibly receive a package from you there, if you’ll time it with that. But I can’t remember if the island where the house is located also has a post-office-in-grocery-store where I could send it on. Would need to check that; I’m meeting my mother in one hour, I’ll ask her.
I think we discussed Ginza earlier in the thread. I used them quite a bit in the 90s, alongside Compacthuset. They often had great deals on certain soundtracks. But then the prices skyrocketed, and now they don’t even ship to Norway. Sad. But impressed they’re still in business. Whereas Compacthuset closed for business in 2002 already — one of the biggest losses in music vendor history; their selection was amazing.
Thanks for the suggestion, Thor, but I need to give an answer to Ginza the following week whether to cancel to order or re-ship it right away.
Weird, why does a Swedish site not ship to the direct neighbour country… Okay, EU vs non EU but…
So this is basically the same “experiment” as with Thor and medimops?
Yes. Receive the package sent to a package box near the helper’s address, collect the package, pay for shipping to my address in Norway (which will be refunded) and attach the new shipping label, then drop it off at a postal office.
The reason they’re not sending to Norway anymore seems to be they don’t want to bother with the VOEC system that was introduced a couple of years ago, where the online store has to collect VAT on behalf of Norwegian tax authorities.
I have never really thought of Discogs as a place to buy and sell CDs. Only used it occasionally as an information database.
I sometimes think about selling my collection – most of it is stored at a separate location from at home – and if feels like I don’t have my collection anyway.
I have never really thought of Discogs as a place to buy and sell CDs
It’s the “better ebay for music” I would say. Used it a few times and always worked well.
The reason they’re not sending to Norway anymore seems to be they don’t want to bother with the VOEC system that was introduced a couple of years ago, where the online store has to collect VAT on behalf of Norwegian tax authorities.
I see, there is something similar for private persons in the EU as well but somewhat centralized. I am in Germany so we could try that experiment. Hopefully within the EU there are no additional fees and the shipping to Norway does not kill the bargains…
Can they ship to my address directly without any package station? Drop me a mail at info@… with my domain (see the team page on the site here)
It’s the “better ebay for music” I would say. Used it a few times and always worked well.
Agreed. It takes significantly less time to list a CD album for sale on Discogs than on eBay. In addition, eBay charges a fee for transferring the money to the seller’s account (they don’t allow payment directly to PayPal or bank account anymore). The transfer has to be done within a month of selling the item, so there’s limited possibilities to save up before transferring.
Agreed. It takes significantly less time to list a CD album for sale on Discogs than on eBay.
I should add that I only bought a few things but never sold actively anything.
Much appreciated. I’ll send you an email later tonight.
Exciting, so we will have two running experiments of package forwarding soon. Will be interesting if both work out or not or if there is any difference occurring 😉
Unlike Thor, who is looking for very specific things, my own music purchases — CD or digital downloads otherwise — are more or less random finds, surprise editions, or new releases that genuinely interest me. My music collection, as it exists today, more or less contains all the film scores I ever truly wanted and all the classical music I ever truly wanted… plus lots of things I discovered along the way. So I don’t really look for anything in particular.
Back in the day of regular shop scanning I bought lots of blind buys just out of interest. Of course there were some unnecessary ones but it was the only way to learn about a few things as well. I rarely do that anymore since you can sample almost everything beforehand which is good since price raising makes such blind buys “dangerous” 😉
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