xpost yes that's the same set.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 31 January 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty excited!
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 1 February 2013 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
all i want is a killing joke boxset ... is that really too much to ask for ...
― mark e, Friday, 1 February 2013 08:17 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Albums-Dances-Night-Boxed/dp/B0093LKOGM/
;-)
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 08:41 (eleven years ago) link
not good enough.
want a nice boxset with all the classic emi/virgin era albums in replica cardboard sleeves a la elo/byrds/simple minds etc ..
its surely only a matter of time ..
― mark e, Friday, 1 February 2013 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the heads-up on the enlightenment box CtC - seems insanely good value + is just the sort of thing I feel like I want to spend some time with now, find out something new.
― woof, Friday, 1 February 2013 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
This Stravinsky box is definitely worth a look: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Works-Igor-Stravinsky/dp/B000PTYUQG/
Anyway, I thought we were all meant to be boycotting Amazon.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
Why?
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
In Britain, a lot of anger lately over their tax-dodging:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/03/amazon-google-starbucks-tax-avoidance
Plus the usual more general issues - squeeze on smaller merchants, emerging monopoly, bad terms offered to affiliates, publishers, authors etc
― woof, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:12 (eleven years ago) link
Not worth trying the "we" thing here.
Tax issues may be one reason to feel slightly peeved at Amazon (I don't myself but understand why others might) but the rest of it appears to be the usual denial routine.
None of the "smaller merchants" will admit to themselves that they are rubbish; it makes them feel better to bleat about an "emerging monopoly" rather than get off their backsides and restructure their business and their attitude (the latter especially important) so that they can offer decent competition to Amazon, rather than waiting for someone to come and drop a succession of fifty-quid notes through their front door.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
i'm all for crushing capitalists of any size but i think economies of scale might make it not v. straightforward to "compete" with hulking sales behemoths? i dunno, economics is shit to me
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:25 (eleven years ago) link
xp Not sure how those smaller merchants are supposed to compete with the combination of Amazon's relentless squeezing of suppliers and shall we say "favourable" tax arrangements. I think it's perfectly legitimate to expect a more level playing field, and Amazon are becoming a monopoly provider if not de jure then certainly de facto. How would you suggest small providers "restructure their businesses" to be able to compete in these circumstances? Redundancies all round?
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
The book industry should maybe look at what happened to HMV and how all the indie record shops in London have survived, which seems a complete inversion of the David/Goliath competition set-up. Doing it on an unequal playing field is possible, even if sometimes you have to wait for Goliath to trip up.
I would say that small providers need to stop being lazy and complacent, learn about running a business and stop regarding their little independent shop as a display of their own collection.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
The EMI Mahler box is pretty good. The complete works on 16 CDs for only £18, all good recordings and conducted by Klemperer, Rattle, Barbirolli etc. Packaging is minimal but attractive nonetheless:
www.amazon.co.uk/Gustav-Mahler-Complete-Works-Anniversary/dp/B003D0ZNWY/
― Jaap and roids (NickB), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
woof: You are very welcome and I'm sure you will enjoy it.
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
xxp Can you provide examples of this complacency? Or is it just a question of Amazon's prices being consistently lower? Because if it's the latter then there are structural reasons for this that can't simply be blamed on laziness or complacency.
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
oh wow if i had £18 that i wasnae going to waste on rum :\
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
I have lots of sympathy for small record stores, but in here Internet distribution had sadly already done its damage before I even started ordering stuff from Amazon. Most of the records I order from there are the sort of stuff no record store in Helsinki has sold in years, so I feel no guilt over that. The local and more obscure stuff I still get from local stores, as well as used records.
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Another Mahler bargain on Amazon is the Tennstedt box. 16 CDs for 16 squids as of right now and rumoured to be one of the best cycles.
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Here it is: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Klaus-Tennstedt-Complete-Mahler-Recordings/dp/B004OGDW4M/
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
fuggit i am treating myself to the Mahler next payday if it's still that price. also it will be good to give a shoeing to lazy complacent independent retailers.
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
stickin' it to that lazy old man
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
they should get on their bikes and look for customers
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
Noted independent record store devotee Norman Tebbit
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
Mary Portas vs ILM up in here!
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Looks like that Tennstedt box sticks to the symphonies, so if you want yr Kindertotenlieder etc then go for the EMI box instead.
― Jaap and roids (NickB), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Can anyone recommend one of the Sibelius Symphonies boxes? I have a couple of Rattle discs but wouldn't mind a complete set.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
I was kinda wondering: why are these classical box sets selling for so much lower price than box sets in most other genres? Is it because they don't have to pay royalties for the composers? On the other hand, many/most of them feature a lot more players than your typical pop/rock record... Do these performers get any royalties from records sold?
― Tuomas, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk looks half decent although no doubt they are struggling to compete with Amazon prices.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is the Sibelius bargain of the minute: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tapiola-Finlandia/dp/B0091JQH2Q/
― OG requiem head (Call the Cops), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
look at that lazy website tho, they shd get rid of all that content nonsense and concentrate on bunging me tax-exempt CDs from the Channel Islands hand-packaged by children
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
Presto is great. Fast delivery and often cheaper than Amazon. One of the better examples of a well-curated online shop.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
Cheers OG - looks like promising.
― millmeister, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
ShariVari xp: agree, that's where the competition needs to be. Constructive answer in amongst mounds of misplaced student union sarcasm.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 1 February 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
personally I wasn't being sarcastic, but thanks.
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
For a Sibelius box (and yay we are talking about my other favorite composer now) I would give the slight edge to this older EMI set. The symphonies here are with the Helsinki SO and recorded in the 80s rather than the 70s (but the digital sound picture is not bad in the way a lot of early-digital stuff can be, and the Helsinki are great and there are no dud interpretations) plus you get 4 and a half discs of the equally important tone poems, theatrical incidental music, and myth-based cantatas:
http://www.amazon.com/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tone-Poems/dp/B00005MIZT/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1359736483&sr=8-5&keywords=sibelius+berglund
More compact, beautifully recorded in 70s analog, and brought off with tons of personality is this set of the symphonies and a few tone poems with Colin Davis and the Boston SO. Davis' later Sibelius recordings with the London SO are not near this level:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Symphonies-Boston-Symphony-Orchestra/dp/B007CW2FFM/ref=sr_1_39?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1359736428&sr=1-39
For the two Mahler sets discussed above, I would DEFINITELY opt for the mixed-conductor Klemperer/Barbirolli/Rattle set rather than the all-Tennstedt one. I know the idea of a whole cycle in one conductor's interpretations is seductive but with Mahler's symphonies there simply is no one conductor who's gotten all nine (or ten) right.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
cant wait for the scott walker boxset.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scott-Collection-1967-1970-Walker/dp/B00BCOL5YS/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1369336963&sr=1-1&keywords=scott+walker
have held back from buying any of his 60s solo albums knowing that a boxset like this would at some point be sorted out.
seems that labels are totally going for this now.
in recent months i have seen (and left unloved) : motorhead, uriah heap, van halen, eagles, type o negative, sepultra, rob zombie (!!!) ..
personally i love this as it means i get the whole set of the good stuff in one go ..
hence why the scott walker is one of this years most anticipated purchases for me as i know it will hit so many spots for me.
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
there's a 5cd bowie set featuring the 3 berlin-era cds and the double Stage(?) for little or no money too (£12):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeit-77-79-David-Bowie/dp/B00BQ8ZWO4/
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
oh yes .. saw that the other day ..
having recently just bought the complete set of limited bowie japanese mini vinyl editions from a friend i let this one go ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
and yes .. the complete set : space oddity -> never let me down
my friend had no idea he had the lot, until he checked at which point i offered over the odds as they are just gorgeous.
original inserts (where applicable), original inner sleeve notes, original gatefolds etc ..
just gorgeous ..
anyways .. back to the cheap seat bargains that i normally involve myself with ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
this as well (as been out a while)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Official-Release-Series-Discs-1-4/dp/B0081QZJ6A/ref=sr_1_4
first 4 neil young albums for £12
― koogs, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
That Bowie Berlin box, are those all in jewel cases in a card slipcase or something? Sounds like it from the product reviews. My vinyl of this stuff is oh so scratchy now.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
jewel cases with a cheap cardboard thing .. nothing new/special ..
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
oh, and i got that neil young set. my first intro to the young catalogue.reaction : 'oooh now i get it .. '
― mark e, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
THESE ARE ALL VERY GOOD, BEWARE LOW AND HEROES ARE BOTH HALF INSTRUMENTAL.
― Mark G, Friday, 24 May 2013 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_8?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=original%20album%20series&sprefix=origina%3B%2Caps%2C
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:34 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51q8BbSNwHL.jpg
Packaging is the usual cheap box with no booklet or notes or anything, but I just got this for £13 or something ^^^
― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
I posted that link again here btw as I assumed most wouldnt be reading the funk listening club thread, Ordered the Slave and Curtis Mayfield sets.Theres loads more I'd want tho like the Warren Zevon, Chic, Dr John etc
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:49 (ten years ago) link
The Zevon is pucker.
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
Yves Nat Beethoven sonata cycle and much more. V. good.
1930-1956: Comp Recordingshttp://amazon.ca/dp/B000BS6Y74
― Call the Cops, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
I could do with the Avant Garde box set right now.
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Friday, 19 January 2024 16:41 (five months ago) link
Sorry to hear this. I can only think I got my order in slightly ahead of yours - or was lucky enough to land a sympathetic picking+packing elf.
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 19 January 2024 20:44 (five months ago) link
I was thankfully able to order it when sales were first announced last fall
― B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 19 January 2024 20:44 (five months ago) link
Me too, ordered it as soon as it was announced and had no problems receiving it.
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Friday, 19 January 2024 20:58 (five months ago) link
Yes well done but you weren’t trying to get it for twenty quid on Amazon
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 20 January 2024 10:07 (five months ago) link
Bingo
― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 January 2024 10:22 (five months ago) link