The Four Threats…..and tariffs
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What arrived about two weeks later was a copy of Intrada’s DAMNATION ALLEY in excellent condition. For a cent. Probably the best deal I have ever made on a CD. 🙂
That’s an awesome deal indeed!
Actually, strike that. I did pick up a couple of CDs just this summer, at a used record shop in Denmark. Vangelis’ CHARIOTS OF FIRE and Preisner’s BLEU for 30 DKK each, which equals about 45 NOK, or $ 4.5. That’s a deal, sort of. So I’m sure deals like that can still be made is you’re just walking into a used record store (in a smaller city) and look randomly through the shelves. But I’m primarily looking for the 40-50 items on my want list, and I’ve been unable to find any of them for any kind of deal for many, many years now. They just sit there, on my list, staring cloyingly at me.
Of course, the more specific you look for one certain thing, the less likely it is you find great deals. Indeed, I would say the best deals I made on CDs were spontaneous impulse buys of opportunity, not when I was looking or searching for a specific recording.
Indeed, I would say the best deals I made on CDs were spontaneous impulse buys of opportunity,
Yes, that was already the case with especialls 2nd hand shop visits in the “golden old days”. THings ou take on occasion and sometimes blind buys you might otherwise have not bought. Some failures and some not. Been a long time I did this, nowadays blind buys are dead for me basically and it’s been a while I visted a 2nd hand CD shop. We do still have a few here in Hamburg.
The days of physical impulse purchases are more or less over for me (the above exception notwithstanding). Not because of any of the “four threats”, really, but because of SPACE. I don’t have the room for further collection building, certainly not more than the 40-50 titles on my want list. Not even sure how I’m going to accomodate those, if and when I get them.
Just got my CHAIRMAN CD from the kickstarter yesterday. Rather okay 2,13 Euros customs plus an bold 7,50 fee from DHL for the “expenses” of paying the customs upfront… With the ca. 34 Euros for CD + shipping it is at 43 Euros. Rather okay since it is priced regulary Euro 36,95 at my local dealer plus shipping. But certainly far better than the cost of Young’s NOSFERATU last year… Still quite expensive…
Five really? You mean 2nd hand? I would say mabye two new CDs by our speciality labels as they were never realy cheap.
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