Your latest cd or DVD purchase

[Bupie]

Risk (remastered) - Megadeth
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Blind Guardian - Live

The obsession of free shipping (20 € on amazon.fr, and in this case 20,99 € for 4 cd's) sometimes pushes me to some risky moves   

The consequence is that I have a few cd's to sell back now (a couple of Manowar in first place  ). At least one of them should  bring me back a few euros since it's rather rare : Epica's  2 Meters Sessies CD/DVD. Is anyone interested ? 

[Draco chimera]

I bought Linkin Park and Jay-Z, Collision Course CD/DVD in London for 6£. 
I have waited these few days in London to buy  it, CDs are so expensive in France !

[Steve Jones]

I have waited these few days in London to buy  it, CDs are so expensive in France !

Blimey!  I thought they were expensive here!

[maddox]

The Gathering's latest: The West Pole

Haven't heard it yet.

[Manatee]

I guess this topic will do since we don't have a "Your latest CD or DVD non-purchase" category, and I don't feel like making one just now.  I've run into a vexing problem lately: some of the new music that I'd be interested in buying doesn't seem to be available in CD format anywhere I can find.   Amazon only has MP3 downloads for both Blind Ego and the newer Gazpacho albums.  I even went so far as to check the Amazon UK site, and the same was true there.  Also no luck among the independent sellers on Amazon Marketplace.  Does anyone know where these can be ordered (other than my local music shop in the Netherlands, which ain't so local for me  )?

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Flustered American Sea Mammal

[PH]

Hmm... I'm glad we Dutchies have Bol.com and NlStore.nl...

Sorry Man, can't help you...

[maddox]

I guess this topic will do since we don't have a "Your latest CD or DVD non-purchase" category, and I don't feel like making one just now.  I've run into a vexing problem lately: some of the new music that I'd be interested in buying doesn't seem to be available in CD format anywhere I can find.   Amazon only has MP3 downloads for both Blind Ego and the newer Gazpacho albums.  I even went so far as to check the Amazon UK site, and the same was true there.  Also no luck among the independent sellers on Amazon Marketplace.  Does anyone know where these can be ordered (other than my local music shop in the Netherlands, which ain't so local for me  )?

Thanks.

Sincerely,

Flustered American Sea Mammal

I assume you don't have a credit card, FASM? 

If you do have you can buy their previous albums, also the astonishing Night, through Marillion's own record company called Racket records. --> Look over here. 

I don't know about Tick Tock and Blind Ego yet.
I'll get back to you on this.

[Draco chimera]

Blimey!  I thought they were expensive here!

Collision Course : England : 9£
                            France : 13.5£

[Manatee]

I assume you don't have a credit card, FASM? 

If you do have you can buy their previous albums, also the astonishing Night, through Marillion's own record company called Racket records. --> Look over here. 

I do have a credit card, but I can't figure out what FASM means.  I found the following possibilities:

Acronym   Definition
FASM   Flat Assembler (computer)
FASM   Future Attack Submarine (UK Royal Navy)
FASM   Forward Air Support Munition (US Navy precision munition project)
FASM   Fuel-Assembly Structural Material
FASM   Faculty of Applied Science and Mathematics

I have some experience with choice 5, but somehow I doubt that's what you meant.

In any case, thanks for the info.   

[maddox]

I do have a credit card, but I can't figure out what FASM means.

Really?

What about this?

Flustered American Sea Mammal

So the conclusion is: sometimes you should drink Guiness.

Sometimes you shouldn't.   

I found the following possibilities:

Acronym   Definition
FASM   Flat Assembler (computer)
FASM   Future Attack Submarine (UK Royal Navy)
FASM   Forward Air Support Munition (US Navy precision munition project)
FASM   Fuel-Assembly Structural Material
FASM   Faculty of Applied Science and Mathematics

Though i like your choices too. 

[Manatee]

Really?

What about this?

Quote from: Manatee
Flustered American Sea Mammal

So the conclusion is: sometimes you should drink Guiness.

Sometimes you shouldn't.   

Ah, I'd forgotten about that.  FASM is me.  Maybe I'm a Future Attack Submarine too.  I could probably float to the European prog gigs then.   

As to the Guinness, I have been sadly without it for days now.  Now that you mention it, maybe I'll go on a shopping run.  I seem to be more intelligent when I drink it.   

[Iggy]

I cracked and bought Tick Tock - Gazpacho on Amazon download it was about 10 quid cheaper!

[Manatee]

I cracked and bought Tick Tock - Gazpacho on Amazon download it was about 10 quid cheaper!

I'm tempted to do the same, although I really would prefer having the CD with artwork, especially since my hard drive will probably crash 15 minutes after the download if I do that.   

[Manatee]

I'm tempted to do the same, although I really would prefer having the CD with artwork, especially since my hard drive will probably crash 15 minutes after the download if I do that.   

I gave in to the above temptation and bought the dowload MP3 version of Gazpacho - Tick Tock.   Wow.  It is most excellent.       I might just have to do the same with Night, especially since the download prices seem to be based on number of tracks, which makes it less than $5 since it's 5 (long) tracks.


Also, recently received in the mail: Opeth - Watershed (replacement choice from the cheapo CD club since they stopped carrying Deliverance).

[Iggy]

I purchased the Complete Absolutely Fabulous DVD for £20. For the first time this year I bought a DVD from a shop.

[Steve Jones]

shop

I'll Google that later

[Manatee]

I purchased the Complete Absolutely Fabulous DVD for £20. For the first time this year I bought a DVD from a shop.

I'll Google that later

I'm allergic to shopping in person now.  If food and drink could be ordered via the internet, I'd never set foot outdoors.

Arrived today along with my argumentative RAM:  Weezer - Make Believe
This was the last (on back order) part of my cheap CD club order and is probably the last I'll ever get from them as they've wised up and decided to shut down that operation.  It completes my collection of Weezer studio albums.  Hooray for socially awkward geek rock stars.   

[Iggy]

I'm allergic to shopping in person now.  If food and drink could be ordered via the internet, I'd never set foot outdoors.

Arrived today along with my argumentative RAM:  Weezer - Make Believe
This was the last (on back order) part of my cheap CD club order and is probably the last I'll ever get from them as they've wised up and decided to shut down that operation.  It completes my collection of Weezer studio albums.  Hooray for socially awkward geek rock stars.   

Our supermarkets do actually deliver if you order on the internet. It is tempting but I am told (by Mrs I) that going outside is good for me.

[Steve Jones]

I am told (by Mrs I) that going outside is good for me.

I went outside the other day.  The graphics looked pretty convincing but there was no porn

[Manatee]

Our supermarkets do actually deliver if you order on the internet. It is tempting but I am told (by Mrs I) that going outside is good for me.

there was no porn

Perhaps this was Mrs. I's rationale in recommending it?

[Steve Jones]

Perhaps this was Mrs. I's rationale in recommending it?

If true, that's a scary glimpse into the female psyche!

[Manatee]

If true, that's a scary glimpse into the female psyche!

Those glimpses that I've had have all been scary.  I've concluded that loony is inevitable.  The goal is now to find a loony that's compatible with my kind of loony.   

[The Butterfly Man]

Today I bought:

OSI - Blood

Tom

[Steve Jones]

Bowing to peer pressure: Gazpacho - Tick Tock
Bowing to "Ooh! It's only a £4.14 download" pressure: Karmakanic - Who's the Boss in the Factory?

[Iggy]

Bowing to peer pressure: Gazpacho - Tick Tock
Bowing to "Ooh! It's only a £4.14 download" pressure: Karmakanic - Who's the Boss in the Factory?

Good point. Karmakanic is very tempting at that price.

it seems that Amazon have sorted out the glitch where it was more expensive to buy the download than have the Cd delivered.