The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

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Scarpia

Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on September 09, 2010, 06:53:10 AM(But if you're still not clear about where I'm coming from simply read urkneal's last post. He gets the picture...)

Focusing on the discs being full doesn't make economic sense.  The valuable commodity is the audio recording, not space on the disc.   If they had squeezed the set down to 35 CDs instead of 55 that would save $10 of production cost.  They could lower the price from $100 to $90.    If they had filled that 55CDs with extra tracks, that would be 50% more music, the set would have cost $150 instead of $100.  But that would ruin the concept. 

I don't have much interest in the 111 set because I already have almost all of the interesting recordings already.  But as I mentioned above, they used the same concept in the Argerich Collection and having the original cover art and couplings was an important added value and a contributing reason I got the set.  If they had squeezed it down to fewer discs and dropped the original cover art concept I probably would not have gotten it, even if it was a few dollars cheaper.

Dancing Divertimentian

Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

DavidRoss

Not quite a super duper bargain, perhaps, but a pretty good value nonetheless.  A few Amazon.com marketplace sellers are listing Bertini's Mahler symphony cycle for under $35 --- about half of Amazon's price.

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphonies-1-10-Lied-Erde/dp/B000BQ7BX2/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1284078910&sr=1-13
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Scarpia

Quote from: DavidRoss on September 09, 2010, 04:39:27 PM
Not quite a super duper bargain, perhaps, but a pretty good value nonetheless.  A few Amazon.com marketplace sellers are listing Bertini's Mahler symphony cycle for under $35 --- about half of Amazon's price.

http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-Symphonies-1-10-Lied-Erde/dp/B000BQ7BX2/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1284078910&sr=1-13

Got mine from MDT for 18 pounds, plus shipping.  Quite a few of the EMI box sets can be had for astonishingly low prices if you are persistent.


The new erato

Quote from: Scarpia on September 09, 2010, 06:19:10 PM
Got mine from MDT for 18 pounds, plus shipping.  Quite a few of the EMI box sets can be had for astonishingly low prices if you are persistent.
You don't even need to be particularly persistent. EMI is flogging everything they got that can bring cash into their vaults, in endless repackagings, in every channel they can think of. It's on my list BTW, along with the box of Muti's Cherubini.

Coopmv

Quote from: erato on September 09, 2010, 09:49:55 PM
You don't even need to be particularly persistent. EMI is flogging everything they got that can bring cash into their vaults, in endless repackagings, in every channel they can think of. It's on my list BTW, along with the box of Muti's Cherubini.

Has the current owner of EMI taken EMI into bankruptcy court?

The new erato

Not AFAIK. They still need cash though.....

Coopmv

Quote from: erato on September 10, 2010, 05:47:50 PM
Not AFAIK. They still need cash though.....

I certainly hope EMI can stave off bankruptcy.  The private equity firm that did the LBO on EMI knows little about running the music business ...

ammar

I think that this :


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001DCQJUO/

at a shade under £17 delivered (for UK residents, using free shipping option) now falls into the super-bargain category. That's a pretty good price for the 4 CDs of Messiaen playing his own organ music, never mind the rest of the set  :)

Scarpia

Quote from: ammar on September 16, 2010, 02:32:32 PM
I think that this :


http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001DCQJUO/

at a shade under £17 delivered (for UK residents, using free shipping option) now falls into the super-bargain category. That's a pretty good price for the 4 CDs of Messiaen playing his own organ music, never mind the rest of the set  :)

Enough to make me with I could tolerate Messiaen.   :P

stingo



English Viol Music

Not sure if it's a super duper cheap deal, but it was enough of a deal to make me pull the trigger. Very good music/performance for what, to me is an attractive price.



Orpheus

Quote from: Conor71 on September 24, 2010, 11:01:57 AM
Woah! - Unfortunately only for domestic shipping :'(.
Awesome bargain though :).

It's for international shipping too!!!  ;)

Conor71

Quote from: Orpheus on September 24, 2010, 12:07:13 PM
It's for international shipping too!!!  ;)
I gave it a try and my order was accepted! - cost $35 AUS. That set retails for +$100 at my local Classical B&M.
I have had my eye on that set for a while - thanks for the heads-up Orpheus! :D.

ammar

Thanks for that, Orpheus, especially as it led me to this corker for 10 euros:


http://www.amazon.fr/Schubert-Lieder-Fischer-Dieskau-Moore/dp/B000AYQCIK/

Fingers crossed that both orders (along with the Walcha Bach from the top of the page) are honoured ::)

ammar

...and no sooner had I placed my order and posted a link than the price is back up to 50 euros ::)

Sorry guys... :'(


Brian

Wowzers!!
That's the same seller who was selling a Sibelius box set for £999. Must be moody.
(I didn't buy it.)