Found a grat music site!

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: Naemanson
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 04:50 PM

Grat music? Never heard of it. [Grin]

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: Jim Colbert
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 04:20 PM

snip: Mmmm,
All can be ordered at numerous sites, or even bought in a shop. Remember them?


Actually, no they all can't... my wife got me a tompall and the glaser bros. collection from them that is one of their exclusives. And as Michael said, many of the imports- if you don't know some of those cool Bear family sets exist, you can't special order them. I often buy from village records and elderly instruments, also. Village in particular has great customer service, is really good about passing along promos or samplers, takes trades and has some exclusive Tom Russell and Dave Alvin things. Recommended in my book.

Working in a college town, the flavors at the local stores here are definately geared toward alternative and well, college-radio type music. Folk sections are rudimentary at best, and special orders, especially on imports, seem to take forever and sometimes just never come in at all. I try to mix up my purchases, actually, to support both local shops, good mail order places, and directly from artists when I see them perform (unless they're charging significantly more than I can easily find the disc for elsewhere, y'know?)

jim

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 04:07 PM

Thank you Michaelr F**k you, Guest

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 03:41 AM

Thanks for the heads-up Michael -- I'm still listening to No Other on vinyl and it's nearly worn out!

BJ

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 09 Jan 03 - 02:44 AM

Great stuff!! I've been getting Collector's choice video catalogue for quite some time. My experince from that has been quite good. Their prices are decent and they ship quickly.

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 11:21 PM

As I said, nameless one, a good portion of their merchandise is imported. In other words, to seek it in a shop you'd first have to be aware of its existence.

I expected there would have to be some fellow `Catters who are familiar with the company.

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 11:13 PM

Me too, Gypsy... and they re-issue a lot of stuff that isn't avialable anywhere else.

The other point I'd make is that I have picked up several long out of print CDs for way less than the cost of current CDs by bidding on eBay. One of my greatest finds was a CD by the Chico Hamilton Quintet which was released only in Japan... nobody else bid for it on eBay, so I got it for next to nothing. I even got a fine CD of early country music because I was the high bidder at a penny.... Mostly, it's been a long haul replacing some of my albums with CDs. Many of them were either never available on CD, or are out of print..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: Gypsy
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 10:07 PM

Michaelr, yer right..........its a terrific site. Was ordering from them long before we got a computer..........and since record/cd stores don't really exist in my area, mail order is very handy.

Subject: RE: Found a grat music site!
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 08:25 PM

Mmmm,

All can be ordered at numerous sites, or even bought in a shop. Remember them?

Can't see what's particularly grat about it.

Subject: Found a grat music site!
From: michaelr
Date: 08 Jan 03 - 08:18 PM

Sometimes being on junk mail lists can be a good thing. In my mailbox today I found a catalog from Collector's Choice Music, a mail order company that specializes in re-releases of classic albums, many of them imports.

They have music from the 1940s through the 1980s, in categories such as Big Band, British Invasion, Broadway, Classical, Comedy & Old Radio, Country, Film Soundtracks, Folk, Folk Rock & Psychedelia (note: grouped together!), Jazz, Ochestral Favorites, Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriters.

I found several CDs I'll order immediately, such as re-releases of Gene Clark's classic 1973 solo album "No Other", and several by British art-folk band Curved Air. But there's stuff in here for every musical taste! (well, excepting rap)

Just thought I'd share that with the `Cat. The website is www.collectorschoicemusic.com.

Cheers,
Michael