buying music

[juliet]

From where is it currently recommended to buy CDs etc online? (I am trying to avoid Amazon for vague anti-large-monopoly type reasons). NB I do want an actual physical CD not just MP3 download.

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[(Anonymous)]

Making a recommendation depends on what you want really...

Or if it's something you can get via the artist's website, I'd get it that way :-)

[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

That was me!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I've ordered from play.com and tescos without trouble in the past.

[rgl.livejournal.com]

I buy almost all my non-Classical CDs from Norman Records (http://www.normanrecords.com), an independent mail-order shop based in Leeds.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

But she's already avoiding Amazon! You can't have two monopolies at once...

I just froogle and see what comes up, personally, and take my chances. It'll all go wrong eventually.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

If it's a nindie label, try looking at their site and see if they sell CDs?

I want this. Lots of land and enough room for a commune and near the seaside.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I like the secondhand Amazon sellers thingy. Not sure what sort of a cut they take, but to my mind it's not dissimilar to paying a small shop with Switch.

Are Amazon a monopoly?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Phonica?

[steer.livejournal.com]

It could be a biopoly.

[steer.livejournal.com]

I have had reasonable experiences with play.com but they are a big company. Usually cheaper than amazon but not always. However they do send everything in separate packages which is a little wasteful.

For gothy/bleepy CDs I support music non stop because they put stuff back into the alternative scene (sponsor infest etc) so I buy from them where they sell it. [Also they've been totally excellent about refunds in the past including simply taking my word that something didn't arrive two months after it was sent -- it took me two months to notice.]

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Is that being like the only gay in the village?

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

It's only about the price of two flats in Southwark... I'll chip in.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Only a personal recommendation but I still really like Play -- they're cheap, very speedy with the delivery, and have a pretty good selection of stock. No idea about how they square up to Amazon in terms of ethics, I'm afraid, but I've not heard anything dubious about them. (Also, FWIW, a friend of mine works for them and they seem to be reasonably good as employers!)

[steer.livejournal.com]

Or the only bi in the village?

[juliet]

I think monopoly is the wrong word, sorry. I am meaning more in a support-small-shops sort of way.

I do buy 2nd-hand quite often through them but what I'm after this time is the Lily Allen album & it's only been out about 2 wks so I assume is not yet available second-hand!

[juliet]

How big of a commune, though? I count 2 buildings & 6 bedrooms (discounting the livingroom/bedroom/etc in the main building). And the potential conversion, but that's More Money. My idea of a commune fundamentally involves more buildings than that ftb separate space issues.

It is near a train to London, as well, mind (7 mi, entirely doable on a bike). And yes, lots of land; and currently registered organic.

However I do not have £750,000. Indeed I barely have 75p, but there we go.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Oh and (looking at yr other comments) I admit that their separate packages policy is wasteful, but a) I reuse their conveniently-sized jiffy-bags for eBay selling etc., and b) (selfishly) it's heaps more convenient for me because it means that a CD or DVD will go through the letterbox, so the postman doesn't leave them on the doorstep / in the bin / etc. and I don't have to trek out to the post office depot to pick them up...

[juliet]

It was Lily Allen I was after & they didn't have it... I have used them for other stuff in the past, though. Thanks!

[juliet]

They don't have it! (Lily Allen album) Have gone for play.com in the end - probably no better than Amazon, but hey, *different* :-/

I'd have tried Action but they won't deliver to our address any more...

[juliet]

play.com are the only people so far recommended who stock the relevant album (Lily Allen) so are teh win! Thanks!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aha. I got mine from Selectadisc for a magnificently cheap £8. Hurrah!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I am not being in the same commune as you!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

If I'm pretending I can come up with £750,000, I can easily stretch it to a bit more to cover building a few more cottages! And use the big building as the communal bit of the commune.

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

how about me? ;-)

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Fine, buy it yourself!

[hieroglyphe.livejournal.com]

You can get new stuff through Amazom marketplace as well...

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

thehut.com (no idea about ethical issues on that one) and cdbaby.com for obscure US stuff (who are a lovely company).

[juliet]

You could use the bedrooms in the main bit as workshop-type areas, that would work quite well. ('workshop' as in 'where people do externally earning work, not necessarily workshop in the technical sense).

There's a lot of barns that might work well to convert. And some people might share better than others, anyway.

6 or 7 people could (in theory, except that mortgages don't really work this way...) raise the money to buy it, especially allowing for the fact that some of us have equity in existing houses.

[peshwengi.livejournal.com]

ebay!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Thing is, 6 or 7 people could in theory get a mortgage based on our current earnings, which we mostly wouldn't have if we had a farm. And we wouldn't be making money from having the farm for at least a while.

There's probably space enough that we could share it while we built some more houses or converted some barns.

[juliet]

Planning permission is the main problem, tbh. The permission they have for one barn conversion is only on condition that it's for running an "equestrian business". Building more houses would almost certainly be frowned upon.

Incomes: 'strue. Although WFH always a possibility... Pete at least can work anywhere he damn well pleases :-)

[thekumquat.livejournal.com]

Phone local indie music shop and ask them to order it if it's not in stock, trot down when convenient or ask if they'll post it?

[shadowdaddy.livejournal.com]

I've had good luck with recordstore.co.uk. Too late now, I see, but they do have the Lily Allen. And my, she is a catchy one, isn't she?

[tkb.livejournal.com]

It is possible that there may be tax advantages from sending items in separate packages, since I think that play.com is one of the retailers who sells items from Jersey. Jersey does not charge VAT on purchases, and for shipments into the UK which are of sufficiently low value (below the Low Value Consignment Relief threshold, €22 in the UK), UK VAT doesn't have to be charged either. So, if sending separate packages keeps each individual shipment below the threshold, this may make the best of the tax arrangements.

(I am not a tax expert: this suggestion is based on Wikipedia and a half-heard item on Radio 4 in the last couple of days.)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes, Play have a great big warehouse in Jersey.

[babywildcat.livejournal.com]

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