Where are the bargains?

[jkbmusic]

After reading the thread on FOPP going / gone bust... it got me thinking of my latest CD I bought. I realise there is a thread for what people are currently listening to, but forgive me if it has already been done, but how about a thread recommending sources of CDs and Vinyl other than ebay. Here in Geordieland, there are the usual High street outlets, Virgin - HMV - WHSmith etc. However I would not recommend them per se, as some of their normal prices are a joke. There are Internet sites also like Amazon, Play.com, which usually come up on general Internet searches. What I am also suggesting with this thread is when people come across some bargains, to let other wammers know so that the opportunity can be taken advantage of.

For example yesterday I bought Icky Thump by White Stripes from Morrisons for £7. IMO thats cheap and worth it. I got Police boxed set in HMV Edinburgh for £14 recently, when I went into my local HMV to get another for my son, I found the one in Edinburgh had been wrongly priced and it should have been £40!.

I often look in Woolworth's as they often have some cracking bargains, from as little as a £1.

Windows Newcastle (often overlooked)

Steel Wheels 36 St. Mary's Place Newcastle

RPM High Bridge Newcastle

Spin CDs & CDEXPRESS High Bridge

Music Zone Metro Centre & Sunderland

Oldhitz The Vinyl Frontier! 69 Grainger Street

HMV Newcastle (Sales only)

Virgin Newcastle (Sales only)

WH.Smith Newcastle(Sales only)

Woolworth's Newcastle (Sales only)

Morrisons Anywhere

[jkbmusic]

bought Last week:- spot the bargains chaps!

Santana - Carlos Santana/Wayne Shorter live at the 1988 Montreux Jazz Festival - £19.95 (Deluxe DVD & 2 CD Editition) RPM Newcastle

Leonard Cohen - Greatest Hits £2.99 HMV

cat stevens - Foreigner £4 Virgin

Metallica - S&M (2cd) £10 HMV

Robert Johnson - Contracted to the Devil £4 Virgin

bought this Month:-

Snow Patrol - Final Straw £5.99 Morrisons

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open £7 Morrisons (last weeks price war)

Genesis - Live £2.97 Woolworths

Driving Rock - Various 50p Oxfam

Paul McCartney - memory almost full £9.77 Morrisons (ripp-off)

Travelling Willburys - Wilbury Record Co. £10.00 ish Morrisons

White Stripes - the White Stripes £5 Ebay

bought this week:-

Eric Claption & The Yardbirds £2

Kasabian - Empire £4

Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze - £1 (Bargains!- that's the wonder of Woolies)

too much money, too little time

[Boxer]

You could also check out Roots2Music down on the bottom of Westgate Rd, if you like "world", blues, country, Americana. They have some unusual stuff & often a sale rack. Quite a bit of my CD budget has gone their in the last few years.

If you like classical, try www.mdt.co.uk , Griffo just tipped me off to that - prices are good, various special offers & my wish list is already alarmingly large after a day!!!!!! Thanks, Griffo... I'll send you the bills!

[Killer_Turnip]

I was recommended this cost comparison site for buying CD's on-line. I haven't got around to using it yet, but it sure looks handy

http://www.find-cd.co.uk/

[Headcoat]

Believe it or not amazon has decent prices on back catalogue stuff.

[ob1]

Killer_Turnip wrote:

I was recommended this cost comparison site for buying CD's on-line. I haven't got around to using it yet, but it sure looks handy

http://www.find-cd.co.uk/

Very handy.....thank you

[jkbmusic]

Killer_Turnip wrote:

I was recommended this cost comparison site for buying CD's on-line. I haven't got around to using it yet, but it sure looks handy

http://www.find-cd.co.uk/

Killer,

10/10 for that link, they even beat the £7 price I paid for your album I bought yesterday

Click Here

[Killer_Turnip]

No problem.

There's also a site for finding the best prices on DVD's too.
http://www.find-dvd.co.uk
Not strictly on topic, but useful nonetheless

[ob1]

I was just about to pay £14.99 for Beatles's white album, good job I read this post and save myself a cool £5!
So today I have bought lots more and many of them would have cost me more even go if I go down 2nd hand route!
cheers

[ob1]

this link is so bloody useful, I bought 21 albums this week, I don't even hunt for 2nd hand cds on ebay now! most are less than fiver, delivered.

[jkbmusic]

Bought Ahletes' new album today £7 from morrisons;)



Forgot I also got Mike Oldfield Triple CD Platinum Collection for £7 from Tesco.

[jkbmusic]

and this tonight from asda for £5

[ob1]

jkbmusic wrote:

and this tonight from asda for £5

Really???? I think I will buy 20 copies

[jkbmusic]

ob1 wrote:

jkbmusic wrote:

and this tonight from asda for £5

Really???? I think I will buy 20 copies

It was from a retail park in Byker, Newcastle. Probably the last copy?

[ob1]

Found it
http://www.asda-entertainment.co.uk/...557108.product

[chezi61]

Play.com 3 cd's for a tenner.

chezi

[jkbmusic]

All the top albums in Morrisons chart were £7 today

[ob1]

jkbmusic wrote:

All the top albums in Morrisons chart were £7 today

All of them? Four tops, Top loader, ZZ top...etc.
(god I can be such a twat sometime!)

[jkbmusic]

ob1 wrote:

jkbmusic wrote:

All the top albums in Morrisons chart were £7 today

All of them? Four tops, Top loader, ZZ top...etc.
(god I can be such a twat sometime!)

The store Telephone number is 0191 2160101, the store manager is called Alan Snaith, ask him. (so can I!)

[icehockeyboy]

If you're in Bakewell in Derbyshire, check out The Bakewell Book Shop, they keep some great cd's and vinyl there, Keith the owner is a great guy, and they have a selection of stuff from blues, early R'n'B, tons of 70's albums from artists like Yes, Floyd, Supertramp, Family, Nick Drake,Zep, Hendrix, (obviously 60's too) and loads more really esoteric stuff.
A little higher priced than the chains, but hey, its a one man business, and he does have a good selection at £7.99.