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Grex Classicalmusic Item 38: Buying Classical CDs
Entered by mary on Sun Sep 20 14:03:28 UTC 1998:

I tend to browse SKR and Border's racks on a fairly regular basis.
SKR will let me take anything out of the wrapper and listen to it
at their player.  Where Border's has listening stations setup to
sample new releases of music I'd normally not ask to have opened.
Border's isn't strong on staffing knowledgeable staff.  SKR staff
knows their stock.

But now amazon.com offers classical music and access to a wonderful
database.  I was able to locate an obscure disk that I was pretty
sure wasn't going to happen even though it's only a couple of years
old.  Prices are discounted, and there is no tax, but shipping brings
it back up to being just a little less than you'd pay to take it 
home from the store.

I don't buy a whole lot of CDs anymore but I do like browsing the
new releases.  Now I can do it in my pj's.

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by coyote on Mon Sep 21 19:15:09 1998:

That's nice, but I'd probably only use it for browsing, and actually order
the stuff through SKR.  After what happened to Schoolkids, I'd rather that
my money went to support a small local business, especially one that's so
knowledgable about their stuff.

#2 of 4 by davel on Mon Sep 21 23:06:49 1998:

What happened to Schoolkids?  And when?

#3 of 4 by krj on Tue Sep 22 20:12:05 1998:

(See Music #149 for a very long item on the demise of Schoolkids Records.
Final day of business now appears to be Friday 25 September.
SKR Classical will continue because it was sold off to its manager 
Jim Leonard about a year or two ago.)

#4 of 4 by johnnie on Tue Sep 22 23:02:46 1998:

Another classical music site that I like is www.classicalinsites.com, 
but I still prefer to "buy locally".

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