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Post by bigal76 on Aug 12, 2007 17:22:49 GMT
How do we all find new things to listen to?
Amazon features are a wallet hazard. I quite like the 'List Mania' feature, where the cd you may be browsing at is part of someone's suggested listening list. Click into that list and listen to other suggestions by the list author. It's an interesting way into other artists or a genre that you're looking at and I've often found artists that I've never heard.
The "customer's who bought this also bought...." feature on Amazon is another danger.....
With newer cd's and artists, I also like to visit the web site of the record company, which usually has samples of other artits that you may not have heard of.
Other sites? I quite like Juno.co.uk for new releases of techno/house/leftfield/broken beat/nu jazz stuff.
So how do you find your cd purchases? Any suggested sites?
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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 12, 2007 21:01:51 GMT
Has always been a case of pot luck with me, I'm old fashioned and browse around the CD racks at secondhand record shops and ask the guy at the counter "give me a quick listen to this mate" he'll skip through the tracks and if I like the sound of the album I'll buy it. I know it's a lot easier to browse some of the online establishments and listen to a few seconds of tracks but, as I say, I'm an old fashioned / traditional bugger and like browsing on the street or rummaging through stuff in charity shops. It could become very addictive sitting at a computer every day buying everything in sight which is why I tend to avoid it.
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Post by thestratmangler on Aug 13, 2007 21:48:19 GMT
I buy a lot of 2nd hand stuff on vinyl. It is still my medium of choice, and not because of any nostalgic memories either.
There are a number of 2nd hand vinyl shops in my area, so barely a couple of weeks go by without me visiting one (or all) of them.
CD's generally are bought at one of the numerous Supermarket chains - they're relatively cheap.
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Post by gns on Aug 18, 2007 6:21:26 GMT
While on a rare family outing recently, I wondered into a charity shop, headed straight for the record shelf, and hidden between the usual crap was Sade's Diamond Life LP in excellent condition, and at just £1 GBP (2 dollars), guess what I did?
Yes, another quality LP added to my collection to enjoy.
Best thing that ever happened - CD!
Lots of lovely vinyl for nothing cropping up everywhere. A quick clean with weak washing up water and the sponge side of a washing up pad, buff up with a clean tea towel, and heaven!
Not for me all that hi-fi-fo-fum bollocks!
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Post by fanboi on Aug 18, 2007 10:29:04 GMT
Rather like that album myself I scored around 30 LPs at a garage sale recently (picked from around 400) nice mix of stuff and 20 of them are virtually unmarked and the others very good - cost $AU25 - about 10GBP - (don't have pound sign on the yankee keyboards we get here)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2007 16:20:43 GMT
On Barnes&Noble Booksellers website, you may listen to 30 to 60 second duration cuts on most music titles out there. You may also link to the different artists playing on those titles, as well as composers, genres, formats, etc. Windows Media Player works.
I also listen to Accuradio, a streaming radio station on when surfing, composing letters, etc. All styles are listed. It's quite good.
It also helps to have friends (yes, I have one or two) who dig around as much as I do and share, taunt, and threaten, so's to have me expand my musical horizons.
John
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Post by PinkFloyd on Aug 20, 2007 19:13:38 GMT
Was in a huge charity shop today (three floors!) and picked up a couple of CDs for 50p each. "300 years of glorious music" 35 tracks in 3 categories Disc One The Age Of Elegance, music from Bach, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart Disc Two The Age Of Romance, music from Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Grieg and Strauss 11. Disc Three The Age Of Inspiration, music from Holst, Debussy, Elgar, Rachmaninov, Gershwin, Shostacovitch, Walton, Bernstein, Copland, Villa Lobos and Stravinsky. And "The Gouranga Powered Band" - Opulence of the absolute. (total crap IMO) £1 for the two can't be bad. The places was overflowing with LP's at 50p each (good ones too!) I must get a turntable and go buy 100 of the LP's
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Post by wildebassman on Aug 23, 2007 9:43:58 GMT
While on a rare family outing recently, I wondered into a charity shop, headed straight for the record shelf, and hidden between the usual crap was Sade's Diamond Life LP in excellent condition, and at just £1 GBP (2 dollars), guess what I did? Yes, another quality LP added to my collection to enjoy. Best thing that ever happened - CD! Lots of lovely vinyl for nothing cropping up everywhere. A quick clean with weak washing up water and the sponge side of a washing up pad, buff up with a clean tea towel, and heaven! Not for me all that hi-fi-fo-fum bollocks! Graham, I found a brand new pressing of her album at Vinyl.com. I have very recently started to listen to vinyl again and it feels like getting home after a walk on a cold rainy autumn day.. Yesterday I compared Neil Young's Harvest on CD and record, although the CD sounded more fresh and open, (remastered I think), I liked the vinyl record better, music was more fluid and warm, on the other hand a Gram Parsons Live recording was nicer on CD. To return back to the topic, I ordered 6 records on Vinyl.com and I am as excited as when I was in my teens buying records in a record store, never had the same feeling with cd's...
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