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mcnally
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response 25 of 170:
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Oct 16 09:03 UTC 1991 |
I've only seen Home of the Brave once. Cool movie, though.
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morel
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response 26 of 170:
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Oct 16 15:35 UTC 1991 |
Heh, I saw Home of the Brave in NYC just after it primiered. While standing
in line, a theater employee came out and announced that due to some problem
the copy they were about to screen was only in Dolby (tm) stereo and
not in digital as advertised. I decided to suffer through it anyway. ;-)
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tcc
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response 27 of 170:
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Oct 17 09:21 UTC 1991 |
I have it on Videotape. Wonder if I should throw a HOTB party, eh?
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zigzag
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response 28 of 170:
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Oct 24 06:24 UTC 1991 |
Don't deal with record stores at all if possible for imports. Go directly
to the companies that supply them... it is significantly cheaper and there
is always someone who knows (if you can find them) precisely where your
order is at the moment. Sight & Sound (formerly Wok & Talk Video) is one
of my personal favorites. Now if only I could dig up their number...
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mythago
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response 29 of 170:
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Oct 25 15:03 UTC 1991 |
Play It Again in Royal Oak is pretty good about getting and ordering
imports in a decent time period.
(And the only record store I've seen with any, let alone many, Nurse
With Wound albums)
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krj
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response 30 of 170:
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Nov 18 02:53 UTC 1991 |
Schoolkids has gotten a big pile of Irish/Scots/English folk CDs from the
Celtic Music and Gael-Linn companies in the last week. Some of these items
are so Irish that you'll have to be able to read the language in order to
know what you are getting. The downside is that this charming CDs are
$24 each. Ouch!
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mcnally
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response 31 of 170:
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Nov 18 06:07 UTC 1991 |
Yow! I was feeling more charitable towards Schoolkids' pricing policies
lately since picking up the Bears' first (eponymous) album as a $4.99 cutout.
Thanks for reminding me about Schoolkids' dark side.
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krj
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response 32 of 170:
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Nov 18 06:21 UTC 1991 |
Unfortunately, $24 is about what I'd pay to order these items direct from
England; the standard British CD price is between 12 and 13 pounds, and
shipping is extra.
(And *nobody* else that I'm aware of has some of these items.)
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mew
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response 33 of 170:
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Nov 19 02:31 UTC 1991 |
Ooh ooh ooh! <mew whimpers helplessly>
I wish we hadn't just started up a budget. :-( Maybe I'll check them out
and reserve one for when I DO have money? For that price I should probably
get ken to reccomend things.
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krj
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response 34 of 170:
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Nov 19 04:11 UTC 1991 |
Most of what's there, I really can't offer much in the way of recommendations
on. There are two more items I'm thinking about getting, but if I tell
you which ones they are, you'll beat me to them. :-) (Hint: Enya
appears as a guest synth player on one track of one of these CDs.)
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mcnally
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response 35 of 170:
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Nov 19 06:03 UTC 1991 |
Speaking of which, her new album, "Shepherd Moon(s)" is due out today..
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tcc
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response 36 of 170:
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Nov 19 11:28 UTC 1991 |
Ooh ooh ooh! I must get it!! I must, I must!
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krj
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response 37 of 170:
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Nov 20 06:57 UTC 1991 |
The Enya album is in the stores as promised, as is the Traffic anthology.
$30 for a 2-CD anthology seems mighty high; Where House usually does better
than that. I'd expected it to be priced at about $23-24, like Neil Young's
WELD.
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mcnally
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response 38 of 170:
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Nov 20 07:23 UTC 1991 |
Yes, I bought the Enya album today.. Haven't had a chance to listen to
it yet, though. Wherehouse was having a $2-off-all-CDs sale..
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krj
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response 39 of 170:
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Nov 20 07:43 UTC 1991 |
Where House had a similar sale in their two East Lansing stores today;
I picked up -- in addition to CANDIDE -- Youssou N'Dour's SET (been on my
list for ages) and the Chieftains' Christmas album. I asked the staff
about these apparently un-advertised sales, and I learned that these are
timed to coincide with the release dates of "major" albums -- in today's
case, the new U2 disc -- in hopes of selling a few more items to the folks
who have come in to pick up the blockbuster-of-the-day. So we might try
back again when the Michael Jackson CD hits the stores, but no promises...
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bad
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response 40 of 170:
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Nov 20 22:21 UTC 1991 |
Damn...that must have been why they were packed yesterday. A sign might have
been nice...I was trying to figure out what was going on...
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krj
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response 41 of 170:
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Dec 9 00:42 UTC 1991 |
I'm just back from Tower, where they have a large bin of UK cutouts near
the front desk. $8 for CD albums, $4 for CD singles. Lots of Atlantic
soul classics like Otis Redding; lots of Cocteau Twins; other names that
stuck in my mind were Peter Hamill, KLF, Spacemen 3, lots of Demon/Edsel
reissues. I picked up Sheila Chandra's first solo album, two old albums
from Ian Matthews and Loudon Wainwright III for the Fairport collection,
and TREASURE by the Cocteaus, plus a Pogues/Dubliners CD single.
Mike will want the UK issue of SHOPPING, by 3 Mustaphas 3, if it's still
there & he doesn't already have it. Mary Ellen will want one of the three
or four copies of BASKET OF LIGHT by Pentangle, a highlight from the band's
first career.
I felt bad about not supporting the local company Schoolkids, but Tower was
$2 cheaper on Taj Mahal's first album, *and* they had the December issue of
FOLK ROOTS magazine in the store while it's still December.
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mcnally
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response 42 of 170:
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Dec 9 08:42 UTC 1991 |
Hmmm.. I somehow managed to miss "Shopping".. Now I'll have to
go back (and spend more money.. Curse you!)
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mythago
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response 43 of 170:
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Dec 9 12:48 UTC 1991 |
Does KLF have any CD singles out?
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hawkeye
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response 44 of 170:
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Dec 9 16:41 UTC 1991 |
Why should you feel bad about not supporting Schoolkids? Their prices
have always been the highest in town. They refuse to compete by lowering
prices - even on mainstream stuff that would fly out the door if it was
agressively priced. Warehouse Records has the best prices in town - and
even they are about (on average) $3 a disc higher than you can buy them
from a place like Noteworthy Music.
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mcnally
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response 45 of 170:
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Dec 9 21:54 UTC 1991 |
Also, their owner is a real jerk and even their own employees don't
like them.
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goose
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response 46 of 170:
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Dec 10 00:12 UTC 1991 |
Schoolkids owner is a jerk?
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mcnally
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response 47 of 170:
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Dec 10 04:03 UTC 1991 |
Yes..
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krj
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response 48 of 170:
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Dec 10 06:01 UTC 1991 |
#42 - I'm sorry, I should have grabbed SHOPPING for you, but I wasn't sure
you didn't already have it.
Schoolkids prices *are* too high, but they're still the only store in
town with a halfway-decent collection of folk music.
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mcnally
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response 49 of 170:
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Dec 10 07:15 UTC 1991 |
I wish you had grabbed it.. I went to look for it tonight and
it wasn't there anymore. I wound up buying it on cassette for $2.99,
though I'd much rather get things on CD. At least this way I can
see if I like it (plus, it never hurts to have cassettes to listen
to at work and on car trips..)
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