Cheap Itunes stuff
Posted by Andymac on 13 March 2008 - 10:00pm.
Whilst browsing through this very site I've stumbled upon a few posts where people mention bargains purchased at the Itunes store.
A couple of examples
Citizen Steely Dan 66 tracks £7.99 (£36 on Amazon)
Gil Evans and Miles Davis complete Columbia studio recordings £6.99 for 127 tracks (£70.49 on Amazon)
Trouble is the bargains are a bugger to find. If only there was a way of pooling music lovers knowledge, and tracking them down...
So, found any bargains lately?
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Found another one
Robert Johnson- King of the blues £3.16 for 29 tracks.
Cocteau Twins 32 track
Cocteau Twins 32 track 'Lullabies to Violaine'' for £7.99.
I'm still in shock
Gil Evans and Miles Davis complete Columbia studio recordings for £6.99??? That's unbelievable!
£3.16 for an album, and rather a good one
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=203881070...
Elvis
The King Of Rock 'N' Roll: The Complete 50s Masters for only €10! A Steal!
Rather shamefully
I'm only posting this so that I can track this topic. I don't have any bargains to offer myself. Which raises the question for Fraser: any chance you could give us the ability to track a topic without having to resort to this kind of low tactic, which I know is neither big nor clever?
And another thing, master Lewry. . .
I've been getting a bit confused of late by commentable (i.e. bloggy) stuff appearing on the "Home" page rather than the "Blog" one. For us blogbound kinda guys (I only check under "Home" when I think a new podcast is probably due) do you think it would be possible to add a "heads up, chaps" blog entry that directs us to stuff posted elsewhere?
Then there's the mysterious "Content" folder, full of all sorts of goodies from the mag, but access to which is strictly limited - unless you happen to hit lucky with the Search feature, as I did a few days ago, getting to read the EC interview long before I suspect I was supposed to.
(This is the worst kind of whinge, I know - complaining without offering any proposed solutions. What I think I'm talking about is some kind of simple cross-referencing so that we neither miss stuff not have to scour the entire site in search of new content.)
Confusion
Think of it this way: although you can leave comments on items posted both on the homepage and the blog, they serve pretty different purposes. The blog is, well, the blog, while the homepage is for news about the magazine, the podcast, stuff the magazine is getting up to, that kind of thing.
These are the really the only two places where new content is posted, and the only places you should have the check. The Elvis Costello interview may have gone up a few days before we actually linked to it, but we did link to it eventually.
The content folder is a red herring - it only contains entries already posted on the website (not magazine content), plus pages and features I'm testing, which is why access is restricted. To avoid confusion, I'm removing that link.
Tracking Threads
This is one of the many things on my to-do list, although we already make it fairly easy to do this if you have an account with del.icio.us, Digg, myYahoo etc - you can bookmark the entries you want to keep an eye using the image links at the foot of each post.
Hang head in shame.....
It's a fair cop. Me too. (Why do you think I am so prolific?)
Jack Johnson
Someone pointed out that the Complete Jack Johnson Sessions by Miles Davis is on iTunes for 7 quidish - I bought it a few weeks and am really enjoying it. The Steely Dan one sounds such a steal I'd buy it instantly if I didn't already have it....
Well I never
I didn't even know iTunes did bargains. That's my evening sorted. I won't stop until I find something worth posting.
[now tracking thread]
free eno
last time i looked, ambient chill out neroli was free. so put that in mp3 player and play it. quietly
My favourite price
If you can somehow get yourself an iTunes US store account, you can take advantage of their free downloads which are occasionally quite well known here. For instance this week I downloaded Mercy by Duffy (current UK number one single, I'm told) for gratis and in the past I've also had Horse and I by Bat for Lashes, and You Know I'm No Good by Amy Winehouse.
Also the US iTunes store does three free music downloads per week (in general: something pop/rock, something latin and something else) compared to our rather paltry single free download.
Also if you use Bebo there's a free iTunes Saturday thing which they do, but the free tracks tend to be from young indie bands (the kind of people that had most of us switching off Glastonbury coverage on television).
Free Mashups
I make no comment on the rights and wrongs of their existence, but if you want to hear a few prime examples of the genre for free try here...
http://djearworm.com
Try 'Funky goes to Hollywood'or 'No one takes your Freedom'
Sacrilege or bit of a laff? - you decide, but they made me smile and prompted me to listen to the originals again
HMV online sale - Wincing the Night Away - The Shins
£3.99
Worth keeping an eye on
Sometimes iTunes makes a mistake, and it looks like we should get in there quickly when they do. This used to be under £8, according to the review!
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=186532727...
Not on Itunes but
You can get the new Charlatans album for free on the XFM website.
Heaven forbid ...
... that anyone should actually download these but you can 'listen' to Neil Young live in Amsterdam (2008) alongside Led Zeppelin at O2 and Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood at Madison Square Gardens (2008) over at http://www.bigo.com.sg/ Sound quality definitely on the listenable side
Sony Connect
Sony's Connect store goes offline at the end of this month but some time ago I chanced upon upon the deluxe reissue of Dr Feelgood's Down by the Jetty for a fiver and bloody good it is too...
Soft Cell - The 12 Inch Singles
28 tracks for £7.90 including the wonderful long versions of Tainted Love, Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Bedsitter, What!, Torch etc etc. You get about three and a half hours of quality histrionics for your money.
Platinum series
There is a series of jazz CDs on Amazon called the Platinum series - 20 tracks of Charlie Christian or 20 tracks of Django for £4.79 for example - hell, get both - 40 tracks of the finest guitar jazz for less then the price of a round. There are loads of other (mainly older) jazz artists too - search on "platinum series). May the mixolydian mode be with you.
On iTunes
I am assured that you can get the new Get Cape. Wear Cape. (Get a Sensible Name, you ridiculous poser.) Fly album for £5.99, if that's your thing. It's not mine.
There's also an 'offer' on the new MGMT album at present, with one track (Weekend Wars) available free as the Download of the Week (w/c 17.3.08) and the whole album for £6.99. Is it any good? I'm not massively struck by the free track...
Mozart
Itunes are currently selling a 258 track decca compilation of Mozart for £7.99.
Big Star
I'm currently going through a huge Box Tops phase. The guy that sold me their greatest hits CD said "Have you heard Big Star?" and so this bargain...well, it'd be rude not to.
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=201848737...
Shortwave Set
The new Shortwave Set album is currently available for £4.74.
Shortwave Set
The new Shortwave Set album is currently available for £4.74.
Featuring samples from. . .
Millican & Nesbitt, I kid you not.
I told you so, o ones of such little faith.
I truly thought Millican and Nesbitt
were the Vic'n'Bob singing duo of similar sound and worth.
Slander!
"I Want Our World To Be Like A Beautiful Garden" is arguably the most moving recording by a penny-round-collared, Crimplene-besuited, rictus-stricken duo of Durham coalminers in the entire Pye catalogue.
Glasto '09 here they come!
I'll take it that Brian and Michael
weren't on Pye, then, as they would fit that bill perfectly otherwise.
What better way to complement a trip to Manchester than to hum their moving tribute to Lowry.
Pye it is
The label's label, if ever there there was one. (Er, was there?)
Millican and Nesbitt have recently been reported missing, by the way, whereabouts unknown. I've been researching their tragic fate in considerable depth, so expect the full shocking story to be revealed here very soon.
Double posting
Sorry about that. Not quite sure what happened. I'll blame the kids. I usually do...
Respect
Respect - The Very Best of Aretha Franklin: 43 tracks for £4.99. Bloody good value even if some the tracks aren't all that.