The Super-Duper Cheap Bargains Thread

[Harry]

And people wonder why oil prices are up!

I bought those sleeves (Jazzloft) in 2011 No crisis was caused by it, and the oil prices were stable.

[mc ukrneal]

Nothing impressive, I'm afraid. I have my cds in card catalogue style, so they don't take up much room.  This is a very wide angle lens, so it actually make look larger than it is. (you can "recalibrate" by remembering these are all CDs, not LPs!

First of all - too neat. Far too neat. Which leads me to...

Second of all - not enough cds! Jeepers, the way you have been moaning and groaning, i was expecting cds to be overflowing, but you barely have any at all!! 

[Mookalafalas]

First of all - too neat. Far too neat. Which leads me to...

  Actually, I cleaned up quite a bit (and even vacuumed!) before I took the picture because it was kind of a pit before...

Second of all - not enough cds! Jeepers, the way you have been moaning and groaning, i was expecting cds to be overflowing, but you barely have any at all!! 

    :-[I know. And I'm sorry. I'll try to shop more, and hopefully redeem myself

[Brian]

Nobody is asking the important question here... you hired a professional photographer to take a gallery of wide angle shots of your CD collection?!

[Mookalafalas]

Nobody is asking the important question here... you hired a professional photographer to take a gallery of wide angle shots of your CD collection?!

Yeah, this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mookalafalas-pixgalore/   He's cheap.

[Ken B]

Nobody is asking the important question here... you hired a professional photographer to take a gallery of wide angle shots of your CD collection?!

BakBoy collects wide angle lenses. He has CDWALCD.

[Brian]

Yeah, this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mookalafalas-pixgalore/   He's cheap.

Oh cool!  Gonna browse your photostream for a while...

Now I'm amused that you watermark your own house pictures. 

[Ken B]

This seems to qualify

[asin]B001CW7LT8[/asin]

$70

Word of warning about the sound though. The Beethoven has a few really bad patches. So not a starter set, but some fine pianism.

[Mookalafalas]

Now I'm amused that you watermark your own house pictures. 

  Ah, now I see what you were getting at! I forgot all about that. The watermark is applied automatically whenever I convert to JPEG. I don't even notice it.

  And I'm with Ken on the Brendel set.  A terrific bargain.

[listener]

I caught myself before committing to the Sony (looks like Brilliant) Beethoven box from Presto, it has only 50 discs compared to Brilliant's 85.  There is no claim for 'completeness' but I might be able to live without another version of the secular cantatas and English folksongs.

[kishnevi]

I caught myself before committing to the Sony (looks like Brilliant) Beethoven box from Presto, it has only 50 discs compared to Brilliant's 85.  There is no claim for 'completeness' but I might be able to live without another version of the secular cantatas and English folksongs.

If you're looking for 50 CDs of Beethoven, there's the EMI France set still apparently running around in the wild--symphonies, concertos, almost all the works for solo piano, the violin sonatas, cello sonatas, piano quartets, string quartets, string trios, masses, Christ on the Mount of Olives, Fidelio, a few sundry chamber music works and a CD of concert arias and lieder, drawn from the strongest part of EMI France's mid 20th century archive. (I'm twenty two CDs into it now, about to begin the chamber music).  (But not, to my knowledge, a SDCB.)

[Ken B]

I caught myself before committing to the Sony (looks like Brilliant) Beethoven box from Presto, it has only 50 discs compared to Brilliant's 85.  There is no claim for 'completeness' but I might be able to live without another version of the secular cantatas and English folksongs.

The Brilliant box is quite good, but having heard ever darned one of them I can say with confidence Beethoven wrote a lot of music not worth recording. A whole lot.

[Ken B]

1 cent

[asin]B000059LW6[/asin]

[Moonfish]

If you're looking for 50 CDs of Beethoven, there's the EMI France set still apparently running around in the wild--symphonies, concertos, almost all the works for solo piano, the violin sonatas, cello sonatas, piano quartets, string quartets, string trios, masses, Christ on the Mount of Olives, Fidelio, a few sundry chamber music works and a CD of concert arias and lieder, drawn from the strongest part of EMI France's mid 20th century archive. (I'm twenty two CDs into it now, about to begin the chamber music).  (But not, to my knowledge, a SDCB.)

$68 (like new) for the EMI Beethoven is a SDCB in my mind!        I would agree with that being a great Beethoven foundation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000J0ZPH4/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

[asin] B000J0ZPH4[/asin]

[Moonfish]

1 cent

[asin]B000059LW6[/asin]

Definitely a SDCB - but I am not sure if I can handle the outlay this early in the month.....

[Drosera]

This seems to qualify

[asin]B001CW7LT8[/asin]

$70

Word of warning about the sound though. The Beethoven has a few really bad patches. So not a starter set, but some fine pianism.

Zweitausendeins is still selling this set for 29.99 Euro. http://www.zweitausendeins.de/alfred-brendel-the-complete-vox-turnabout-vanguard-solo-recordings.html Although I don't know about their shipping costs for non-European destinations.

[Octave]

$68 (like new) for the EMI Beethoven is a SDCB in my mind!        I would agree with that being a great Beethoven foundation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000J0ZPH4/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

[asin] B000J0ZPH4[/asin]

FWIW, I saw this set re-listed at BRO for ~$50. 

Also, though it probably does not quite beat the deal quoted by Drosera above, I noticed BRO listed that Brendel VOX/TURNABOUT box (Brilliant) for ~$50 or so.

[North Star]

  Ah, now I see what you were getting at! I forgot all about that. The watermark is applied automatically whenever I convert to JPEG. I don't even notice it.

  And I'm with Ken on the Brendel set.  A terrific bargain.

I don't really see why people bother watermarking, unless it's done in such a way that it's really hard to 'shop it out - that is, a big text across the picture. And that would be a rather large hindrance to appreciating the photo.
...I also don't understand why some friends who don't really own anything valuable bother locking their doors... 

[Moonfish]

Zweitausendeins is still selling this set for 29.99 Euro. http://www.zweitausendeins.de/alfred-brendel-the-complete-vox-turnabout-vanguard-solo-recordings.html Although I don't know about their shipping costs for non-European destinations.

That's a wonderful set (if one is a piano maniac). Somehow I enjoy early Brendel more than his later performances even though the sound is not as good. Does anybody else feel that way? I sense more flux, motion and dance in his playing compared to later years.

[Brian]

That's a wonderful set (if one is a piano maniac). Somehow I enjoy early Brendel more than his later performances even though the sound is not as good. Does anybody else feel that way? I sense more flux, motion and dance in his playing compared to later years.

Not just you. Brendel's '50s CD containing Mussorgsky's Pictures, Stravinsky's Petrushka, and Balakirev's Islamey, is wild and exuberant and fantastical enough to destroy every "academic" Brendel stereotype.