The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Jay F]

Haydn, J. - Hogwood - The Symphonies £34 (ex. VAT)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B009LNI0T0/?tag=goodmusicguideco-21

Thanks, Opus106. I've wanted this for years, but buying OOP discs always made it too expensive. I just paid $59.91 for it. Woo-hoo.

[Opus106]

Thanks, Opus106. I've wanted this for years, but buying OOP discs always made it too expensive. I just paid $59.91 for it. Woo-hoo.

Enjoy!

[Geo Dude]

Thanks a lot for that heads-up, David.  This is my first ever mp3 purchase!   

It was ~$1 when I bought mine just now.

Only $1, huh?  I guess David should have waited for the bargain...

[Octave]

It's crazy: after the deduction of a "promotion" (I'm guessing these are the points or whatever that my Amazon-direct purchases promise me, and that I've always ignored, thinking I'd never bother downloading mp3s from them) and after tax, I paid $0.10 for the Big Haydn Box.  It seems wrong.

I'm also thrilled to see that the "Autorip" business is retroactive.  I wasn't paying attention to that conversation, but I have dozens of legal albums (that I purchased on disc over the past year or so) floating in my cloud....that is pretty neat.

[Gurn Blanston]

Well, I'm sorry, Octave, but I beat even you! I apparently had accrued $2.00 worth of credits (not sure how?) so my total for the entire package was $0.00. It isn't the sort of thing I would normally buy, but what the hell, for free, it's pretty hard to beat!! It was worth it to hear The Grillers having a go at some of the quartets.

[Karl Henning]

You mean, hearing the Grillers is worth... nothing?

Sérieusement, nice to know that this morceau was a tentation even pour le Gurnatron

[Parsifal]

I'm also thrilled to see that the "Autorip" business is retroactive.  I wasn't paying attention to that conversation, but I have dozens of legal albums (that I purchased on disc over the past year or so) floating in my cloud....that is pretty neat.

I never noticed that.  Apparently I have 32 albums and more than 800 tracks in my cloud.  Among it some Bach and some Billy Holiday.

[Octave]

Are any of these other Bach Guild "boxes" worth getting?  The "value" isn't the issue, of course, but the use of time listening to it all...that might be a concern.  A couple acquaintances have recommended the Abravanel/Utah Mahler symphonies to me, for example, which are apparently offered in the Mahler set.  (I've not seen the same enthusiasm for those recordings at GMG.)  I am trying to remember if I heard some good things about some of the Handel set contents. 

In the words of John Fahey: too many records, my brain doesn't work well.

I thought we had a mp3/download recommendations and/or bargains thread, but I cannot find it for the life of me.

[Opus106]

I thought we had a mp3/download recommendations and/or bargains thread, but I cannot find it for the life of me.

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,18740.0.html

[londonrich]

When I click on that link I get an error message - am I doing something wrong?

[Opus106]

When I click on that link I get an error message - am I doing something wrong?

Doesn't seem like it. Looks like the Good Music Gremlins may have taken it down , given that it had not gone farther than two posts in two years, and then decided to merge that Haydn box thread with the present one. But if I remember correctly, the downloads bargain thread was started at the request of a few members (including yours truly), so that CD buyers weren't disappointed to find MP3 deals when they saw a new post here.

[Que]

[...] the downloads bargain thread was started at the request of a few members (including yours truly), so that CD buyers weren't disappointed to find MP3 deals when they saw a new post here.

I'm sure they'll survive the shock...

Q

[Opus106]

I'm sure they'll survive the shock...

Q

They are in shock right now, as they arrive here to find us discussing relevance of threads, instead of, say, the Aeolian Quartet's box of Haydn quartets going for a little over £22 at Amazon UK.

[jut1972]

Well if MP3s are allowed. ...

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Album/4-/32319634/0/Sibelius/ListingDetails.html?searchstring=essential+sibelius&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search

The BIS essential Sibelius box for £7.99

[Monty Cello]

Well if MP3s are allowed. ...

http://www.play.com/Music/MP3-Download-Album/4-/32319634/0/Sibelius/ListingDetails.html?searchstring=essential+sibelius&searchsource=0&searchtype=allproducts&urlrefer=search

The BIS essential Sibelius box for £7.99

Having seen a report elsewhere (the Radio 3 Forum) of a problem with successfully downloading the zip from play.com, can anyone here advise of a successful download? Thanks in anticipation.

[flyingdutchman]

I really don't want downloads here.  There's a place for them elsewhere on this forum

[Parsifal]

I really don't want downloads here.  There's a place for them elsewhere on this forum

According to the above the downloads thread was abolished.

[flyingdutchman]

Abolished or unstuck as a sticky?  Either way, downloads don't belong here, IMO.

[Parsifal]

Abolished or unstuck as a sticky?  Either way, downloads don't belong here, IMO.

See reply 3083.  Thread was presumably deleted and merged with some other thread.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Just purchased this delivered from UK Amazon (Super Saver) for £5.33; bought it especially for Israel in Egypt and The Ways of Zion do Mourn.  Usually around the £24 mark.  Definately an overstock from Amazon as there are 30+ left, nice bargain for a Friday (if you like a bit of Handel) 

Handel Gardiner 6cd Set

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John Eliot Gardiner - Handel (CD - 6 discs)

CD01 : Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350
CD02 : Concerti grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317
CD03 & 04 : Israel in Egypt, HWV54 & The Ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264
CD05 & 06 : Semele

Semele : Norma Burrowes (Semele), Della Jones (Juno), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Jupiter), Timothy Penrose (Athamas), Robert Lloyd (Cadmus), Maldwyn Davies (Apollo), Patrizia Kwella (Iris), Catherine Denley (Ino), David Thomas (Somnus), Elisabeth Priday (Cupid)

English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Orchestra & Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Warner/Erato Classics - 2564698385