What are you listening 2 now?

[Florestan]

Köçekçe.

I can pronounce this in Romanian alright, I can even write it down in Romanian. Please, do the same in English --- if you can, that is. 

[Madiel]

There'll be a cold day in Hell before I pay US $1.399,99 for a boxset, Fricsay or no Fricsay.

The only people more nuts than those asking these prices are those who pay them. 

In general people aren't asking. Computer algorithms are.

[vandermolen]

Martinu: The Epic of Gilgamesh. Sung in Czech with an English narration. This is one of my favourite works by Martinu:

[Tsaraslondon]

Delius; Brigg Fair - BBC SO - Sir Andrew Davis
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge - Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Royal String Quartet, Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Butterworth: Six Songs from "A Shropshire Lad" - Jonathan Lemalu (baritone), Ian Burnside (piano)
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring - Jonatan Lemalu (baritone), BBC SO - Jac Van Steen

Another nice disc from BBC Music Magazine. Good to have both the Vaughan Wiliams and Butterworth settings of some of the Housman poems on one disc. A very enjoyable disc, though I have a better version of the Vaughan Williams, sung by Philip Langridge.
 

[Florestan]

In general people aren't asking. Computer algorithms are.

Okay, but then again how does a computer algorithm come up with asking exactly $1,399.99? Why not $1,400, or $1,350? As far as I know, computer algorithms do just that, ie round up/down the amount.

[Bachtoven]

No.7 from this remarkable set.

[JBS]

Okay, but then again how does a computer algorithm come up with asking exactly $1,399.99? Why not $1,400, or $1,350? As far as I know, computer algorithms do just that, ie round up/down the amount.

It's an old retail trick.

1.99 hits the brain as significantly less than 2.00.

25% off 10.00 makes people think they are getting a bargain even when a neighboring store has the same item labelled regular price 7.50.

Sometimes it may actually result in paying less in taxes, too.

[Florestan]

1.99 hits the brain as significantly less than 2.00.

Significantly less? 

Your brain, maybe. Certainly not mine.

[Wanderer]

Do you enjoy Lelio, Tasos?

Yes, it's a favourite work of mine. The narration only really works in concert, though. Thankfully, it can largely be skipped at home.

[JBS]

Significantly less? 

Your brain, maybe. Certainly not mine.

Neither one of us is the average consumer.

[Wanderer]

[Florestan]

Neither one of us is the average consumer.

I'm not an elitist, Jeffrey (or should I say Jephraim?). I'm sure the average consumer knows better than confusing $1.99 with a significant reduction from $2.00.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor 1890 Version. Ed. Leopold Nowak

[JBS]

I'm not an elitist, Jeffrey (or should I say Jephraim?). I'm sure the average consumer knows better than confusing $1.99 with a significant reduction from $2.00.

The technical term is psychological pricing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing

[Florestan]

Yes, it's a favourite work of mine. The narration only really works in concert, though. Thankfully, it can largely be skipped at home.

Kudos to you, then. I find it a formless hodgepodge far surpassing even that formless hodgepodge called Romeo et Juliette. 

Truth be told, Berlioz is far from being a favorite composer of mine, to put it mildly. Too much histrionics for my taste. 

But, of course, we are still friends in my book. 

[Florestan]

The technical term is psychological pricing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing

Okay. I'm still unconvinced that a moderately sane person perceives $1.99 as a significantly lower price than $2.00.

[JBS]

Kudos to you, then. I find it a formless hodgepodge far surpassing even that formless hodgepodge called Romeo et Juliette. 

Truth be told, Berlioz is far from being a favorite composer of mine, to put it mildly. Too much histrionics for my taste. 

But, of course, we are still friends in my book. 

Not even his melodies? They're as good as Debussy's. Given the chronology he might be considered the (or at least a) founder of the French art-song tradition.

[Florestan]

Not even his melodies? They're as good as Debussy's. Given the chronology he might be considered the (or at least a) founder of the French art-song tradition.

I love his melodies. I love L'enfance du Christ. I love Symphonie fantastique.

[Karl Henning]

Okay, but then again how does a computer algorithm come up with asking exactly $1,399.99? Why not $1,400, or $1,350? As far as I know, computer algorithms do just that, ie round up/down the amount.

Depends on how the code is written.

[Karl Henning]

Do you enjoy Lelio, Tasos? I must confess that I find it a hodgepodge.

Do you know, I've come to enjoy Lélio, myself