On Ebay, ImportCDs doesn't charge for US shipping, where they do on their website. Sometimes they will offer additional discounts on Ebay that brings prices below those on their website, shipping included, but often the difference is negligible. DeepDiscount and ImportCDs I believe are also the same company, which explains why they tend to have the same things in stock.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
i think they've bought Pop Market as well. Yeesh..
― maffew12, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 21:59 (four years ago) link
They also have Collector's Choice, and iirc they also handle pressing & distro for Warner Archive.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:20 (four years ago) link
all of these are just ways for majors to undercut their own distributors
so lame
― sleeve, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
I'm down to the last 250, with about 60-70 that I'm going to keep permanently until the media dies. Of these, I've steadily been selling them on Discogs. Doing pretty well at it too, but the market for marginal unreissued DIY psychedelia of the 80s-90s is pretty strong.
I took three shopping bags of CDs to my local library. They were thankful for the donation and I think I improved their holdings!
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
DeepDiscount and ImportCDs I believe are also the same company, which explains why they tend to have the same things in stock.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 2:50 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― maffew12, Tuesday, February 11, 2020 4:59 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:20 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
what about chalkys, rarewaves, and moviemars? Are these basically just fronts for major labels to eliminate the record store middle man?
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
yes afaik
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 01:09 (four years ago) link
Update on Apollo Masters -- total loss, click through for video:
Was out at Apollo Masters today to see the damage. Roof’s gone, building’s basically a shell. Total loss. Whole block is closed off, and the site will require remediation because of chemical explosions. pic.twitter.com/P3jV1ssb4L— Randall 🕳 Roberts (@LilEdit) February 12, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 02:22 (four years ago) link
Sound of the Universe has Scott-Heron/McCraven, CD and LP, w audio samples here:https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/product/were-new-again-a-reimagining-by-makaya-mccraven
― dow, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 03:12 (four years ago) link
Forgive the spam but if anyone feels like continuing with these CDs, feel free to buy them:
https://www.discogs.com/seller/akmonday/profile
mostly post-rock, post-punk, indie shiz.
― akm, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link
https://variety.com/2020/music/news/cd-baby-retail-store-closing-1203506690/
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
they had a retail store?? Wow. Where was it? Cuz that article and their own website do not say. Maybe the issue was that no one knew where it was.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
oh its online retail store. "Retail store" still makes me think of a place. Nevermind.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
cd baby should have pivoted to where bandcamp is; probably should have changed their name too.
― akm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
mp3baby
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
could've changed to hiddenencryptedfilebaby and gone up against spotify
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:20 (four years ago) link
streambabystream
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:40 (four years ago) link
should just be called "baby".
― akm, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
CD, Baby!
― the british empire's coming back, back back! (j/k) (Matt #2), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
imo this thread should be retitled "CDs, C or D?"
― Natalie Wouldn't (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
No word yet on the current status of early-2000s phenomenon “SeanBaby”
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Anything is better than LadBaby
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
Bandcamp should get a ton of credit for their integration of previewing/listening to music and being able to buy it... I bought a fair amount of stuff from CD baby but their web site used to be weirdly sterile and fussy.
― avellano medio Inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
I honestly haven't noticed a difference in CD prices. I love book hunting at Oxfam but I rarely bother for CDs as I seldom see anything of interest. Maybe should go back to Monorail because they had a bunch of old shoegaze stuff.
Somebody tell japan that CDs are supposed to be cheap now. Digital never taken off there, was that the story?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 28 February 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
It’s got to the point now where my Discogs CD sales have clearly overtaken my vinyl sales, even though I’ve got more vinyl listed. They’re flying off the shelves. At these prices, it makes total sense.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:50 (four years ago) link
It's happened a third time now: my copy of Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight - Once In A Blue Moon is flickering on the last two tracks on the fourth time I played it. This sucks. I doubt this is the last CD I'll encounter this with. Surprised I don't hear more stories about this.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 21 March 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
that sucks... that is a fantastic album
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Saturday, 21 March 2020 02:01 (four years ago) link
Long time lurker very infrequent poster.
Does anyone have a good place to get new and catalogue mainstream/major label CDs online? I usually order from amoeba but am not finding things there lately. I don't want to patronize Amazon. I would be happiest buying from an indie but I'd like a place with a deep selection. Hip-hop is particularly hard to find but I realize a lot of things are not even release in physical formats.
― bryan, Friday, 22 May 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
Discogs is pretty reliable I'd say, if you're happy to buy from private sellers.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Friday, 22 May 2020 22:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah good point. I got no problem with discogs and should consider it for these kinds of searches although new mainstream titles are not always added right away. I was also hoping to find a place where I could get a handful of things from one vendor to save on shipping, but there are lots of shops on there now too.
― bryan, Friday, 22 May 2020 22:55 (four years ago) link
Try importcds. They're on eBay but also have a site. I order from them pretty frequently. No hassles and free shipping.
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 22 May 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
Yeah, importcds is great. Buying from their actual site is cheaper than buying from them on eBay. I also use grooves-inc.com sometimes.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:15 (four years ago) link
I have a fear that Amazon will be the last bastion of CD purchases.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
half the time on Amazon you're buying from importcds anyway
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Saturday, 23 May 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
Bullmoose is great, a mini New England chain.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 23 May 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
Dusty Grooves in Chicago (mainly website) is great for CDs still in lots of less-popular niches. Re: msjor labels, some catalogue, little/no new.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 23 May 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
By which of course I meant Dusty Groove. Only bought 1.000 CDs there over the years... Yeesh.
https://www.dustygroove.com/
― Soundslike, Saturday, 23 May 2020 05:04 (four years ago) link
Who do UK users use for buying CDs?
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 23 May 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
I'm in Canada and pick up the occasional major label CD from Rarewaves in the UK via eBay. I don't know how they manage to be the lowest price available to me.. it's really weird. BuyCDnow.ca is gone... is there anything left around here, online?
― maffew12, Saturday, 23 May 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
Bull Moose seconded, always had good experiences ordering with them.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Saturday, 23 May 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Dearborn Music (https://dearbornmusic.net/) is close to comprehensive with deep stock across genres. Hours at a time have been spent in their jazz section -- core catalog, new releases, Japanese imports, constant used influx. The website could me more user-friendly, but I've placed orders since March with no trouble. Great people, too. They've been around since the '50s. (Burned a path in the '90s, back when driving 40 miles to a record store, after working all week in another record store, was the only reasonable way to spend a day off.)
― Andy K, Sunday, 24 May 2020 14:06 (four years ago) link
Thanks everyone. Dearborn music looks like it has a lot of what I'm looking for at good orices and no shipping charges. Excellent. Andyk have you bought anything from their download store? They've got a ton of stuff there but the site thinks I'm outside the US so I cannot buy. My IP info looks normal so i will contact them about that.
― bryan, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
I'm going to use this space to once again yell AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH at those annoying factory seal stickers on CDs. Just got a couple of older CDs from Discogs, and I can now replace the jewelcase.
― Duke, Monday, 6 July 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
like those ones along the top that leave a bunch of sticky residue about 75% of the time when you remove them?
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
(nail polish remover takes that stuff off instantly)
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
Yes! Just getting them off is a PITA. Never come off in one piece.
― Duke, Monday, 6 July 2020 19:42 (four years ago) link
One of many things I love about British imports: No security strips!
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
use that trick where you pop the bottom hinge off the cover and lift it up, lets you use the two halves of the jewel case to remove the factory seal in one go
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
While we're add it, I wish Amazon wouldn't have abandoned the pretense of even trying to protect jewel cases when they are shipped. The last two CDs I got from them had absolutely shattered jewel cases. Not cracked or with the middle hub broken, mind you, absolutely shattered.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Monday, 6 July 2020 21:53 (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I'd never thought of that. Must remember next time.
― Duke, Monday, 6 July 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link