The Official 'Latest Purchases' Thread Part V

[ravenheart]

Why would you spend that much cash on what are mostly fairly ordinary, widely available releases, at festival prices? Especially German prices.

[ravenheart]

Originally Posted by VoidFlame

Well, it was new, not used...

Would expect to pay half that, personally. New.

[Spiner202]

Originally Posted by ravenheart

Why would you spend that much cash on what are mostly fairly ordinary, widely available releases, at festival prices? Especially German prices.

How are most of those widely available? Most of them I've never seen for sale in North America, and if you order them online you'd have to do them in separate Amazon orders, which has really expensive shipping. There are probably a few I overpaid for, but overall, it would have cost me a lot more to buy these here.

[ravenheart]

Wow. Is buying music really that bad in the US? Almost all of those are common as fuck and usually very cheap. Online that is.

In terms of Europe, Germany is the worst place to buy music. Their prices are just stupid. Although that mail order place with the yellow and black signs whose name I can't remember who turn up at all the festivals aren't bad... they often have a bunch of 5 euro stuff, which is usually old and cheaper elsewhere, but at least it's not too extortionate.

[ravenheart]

Stevie Ray Vaughn - SRV box set
Stevie Ray Vaughn- Live At Montreux box set
Eric Sardinas - Treat Me Right

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by ravenheart

Wow. Is buying music really that bad in the US? Almost all of those are common as fuck and usually very cheap. Online that is.

In terms of Europe, Germany is the worst place to buy music. Their prices are just stupid. Although that mail order place with the yellow and black signs whose name I can't remember who turn up at all the festivals aren't bad... they often have a bunch of 5 euro stuff, which is usually old and cheaper elsewhere, but at least it's not too extortionate.

Says he's from Canada, which might explain things.

[Spiner202]

Originally Posted by TonyD

Says he's from Canada, which might explain things.

Yup. The US is better than Canada, but neither are great. Shipping from Amazon.com is like $7 a CD, so I rarely order from the US unless I'm doing a huge Century Media or CD Universe order. Any chance I get to buy stuff that's somewhat hard to find, I take it.

Granted, not all of those are impossible to find; Darkthrone, Immortal, and Motorhead are obviously quite easy to find, but things like Bathory and Running Wild are usually quite expensive.

[treghet]

Originally Posted by Spiner202

Wacken Haul:

Agent Steel - Skeptics Apocalypse
Artillery - Terror Squad
Atrophy - Socialized Hate
Axel Rudi Pell - Eternal Prisoner
Bathory - Bathory
Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
Benediction - Transcend The Rubicon/The Dreams You Dread
Bolt Thrower - War Master
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Bonded by Blood - The Aftermath
Brocas Helm - Black Death
Cancer - To The Gory End
Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell
Cryptic Slaughter - Convicted
Cyclone - Brutal Destruction
Dark Moor - The Gates of Oblivion
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
E-X-E - Sicker Than I Thought
Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Full Strike - We Will Rise
Gamma Ray - Insanity & Genius
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Immolation - Failures For Gods
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied
Lizzy Borden - Menace To Society
Manilla Road - Invasion/Metal
Manowar - Into Glory Ride
Motorhead - Motorizer
Nocturnus - The Key
Obituary - The End Complete/World Demise
Obituary - Back From The Dead
Paradox - Heresy
Pitiful Reign - Visual Violence
Possessed - Beyond the Gates/The Eyes of Horror
Raven - Nothing Exceeds Like Excess
Running Wild - Pile of Skulls
Running Wild - Masquerade
Sacred Reich - The American Way
Savatage - Handful of Rain
Savatage - Dead Winter Dead
Savatage - Poets And Madmen
Sodom - 'Til Death Do Us Unite
Stormwarrior - Heading Northe
Stratovarius - Episode
Tankard - Vol(L)ume 14
Toxik - Think This

I also got 7 or 8 shirts and about 15 patches

Did you happen to be pushing a shopping cart?

[mankvill]

Just for an example, a chain record store (FYE, Best Buy, etc.) might have, out of those listed, Darkthrone, Immortal, Motorhead, Obituary...that's about it. And I'm not talking a ton of albums by those bands, I mean like 1 or 2 copies of their newest release, and maybe 1 or 2 of a "classic" release.

[Spiner202]

Originally Posted by treghet

Did you happen to be pushing a shopping cart?

Nope, I went back to my camper after buying them, so I only had hold onto the last 6 or so CDs I bought on the final day.

Originally Posted by mankvill

Just for an example, a chain record store (FYE, Best Buy, etc.) might have, out of those listed, Darkthrone, Immortal, Motorhead, Obituary...that's about it. And I'm not talking a ton of albums by those bands, I mean like 1 or 2 copies of their newest release, and maybe 1 or 2 of a "classic" release.

You are completely right about this. Every FYE I've gone to hardly stocks anything beyond new releases. And for huge bands like Motorhead, you can get all of their albums really cheap except for the new ones, so there's not too much you can buy in those stores.

Best Buy in the US is so much better than the ones here for CDs. We have one HMV in Toronto which has rare albums, but most CDs are at least $20. There's a Bathory CD there for $42, which has been there as long as I can remember.