Entertainment For Lively Minds
You paid...how much?
As I flicked through my CD collection at the weekend, I came across a copy of Poses by Rufus Wainwright. On the strength of some excellent reviews, I bought it the week it came out, but the one thing that stood out, as I gazed uopn the cover, was the HMV price tag of £16.99. I know that CDS aren't as expensive anymore, but this stills seems like a hell of a lot to pay.
In a similar vein, when in the fading embers of a comedy relationship, I took a young lady to see the Corrs. It was 2001, and the programme I bought for her cost 11 quid. 11 quid for a pamphlet of adverts and gushing praise for a rotten group. I didn't notice when the concert was over, as my mind was firmly fixed on my overdraft.
So I want to know: what have you overpaid for and how do you feel about it now?
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that way lies madness
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Nearly....
lashed out £150 on Pacific Ocean Blue. Luckily a friend of mine managed to find a copy through nefarious means online.
I'm glad he did - it's shite. I don't even listen to the one I got for free.
Only last week
I bought the new Laura Cantrell album in HMV last week - £13.00!!! I can't understand why they're struggling if people pay that much for CDs.... except I assume they don't. I had big HMV token to eat into (still £37 left!) so it was better to use it (before it becomes worthless) than to buy online.
Crystal Ball
The 4 cd set by Prince cost me nearly £60 (again from HMV). If only I'd used a crystal ball before purchasing...
Now ! All that has gone before is as nothing
On Ebay at £200, sold for £440.
Now 4 !
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VERY-RARE-Original-Now-Thats-Call-Music-4-CD-/1706...
I'm genuinely confused
What is the significance of that album to have that value? Was it the first CD available or something?
Stranger's Almanac
I paid something like £14 / £15 for this Whiskeytown CD around 1998.
I was most annoyed to see it in the sale about a month later for £2:99 or thereabouts.
10 years ago
Paid 30 quid to get Bill Conti's original Rocky soundtrack ordered into HMV...
Dizzee Rascal
I paid £17 for his debut album believe it or not!
I was mightily impressed after hearing him on a very late night radio show & went out & bought his newly released album. A couple of months later he wins the mercury & you could pick it up in asda for £7!! very annoying.
I also once paid £16 on a Mary Chapin Carpenter CD! I don't know what I was playing at as it was sh**e! She is now known in our household as Mary Chuffin Carpenter!
Which MCC album?
As you paid so much I'm guessing around mid-90s, which suggests Come On, Come On or Stones In The Road.
I which case I think you don't like her style of music rather than there's a lack of quality in the albums.
10 points Mr Carl Parker
It was stones in the road.
You are right - I was a little cruel yesterday - there is nothing much wrong with the album, I just find her voice really grates after a little while. Thats coming from someone who like Joanna Newsom too!! :)
I paid...
...(I think) £150 for a Pixies ticket. We got some legit for the first night of their reformation at Brixton, but we wanted to go twice, so it was eBay. I couldn't afford it. I did it anyway.
Oh, and I paid sticker price for my old Jazzmaster in Vintage and Rare. £1250. One day I will buy it back, and I'd be prepared to pay a lot more than that.
And the weekend before last I paid [undisclosed sum] for a spa day, a night in a posh hotel and the best meal of my life. But this was all in the name of spoiling Mrs. Bob for our tenth anniversary, so it doesn't count.
Hurts, though. *whimper*
Sid
In New York City about 1990 I found a 12 inch single of Sid Vicious singing My Way for $40.00, and just had to have it. I probably got my money's worth out of it, as I used to play it on the stereo every morning to get me up and going.
Last month I purchased it from iTunes for 99 cents.
if it's
the french 12" it's worth more than that now...just
Kylie single for £6.99
I noticed recently that I had paid £6.99 for the single CD single 'What Do I Have To Do' by Kylie - two other tracks, both (crappier) remix versions of same song. I had dug it out thinking I might use it on a party compilation (I didn't - it had aged horribly).
And we moan about iTunes!
Yep.
Whenever the music industry whinges about its present state I think of those mid to late 90s CD single prices. Seeing those stickers had a similar effect on me as those quotes attributed to Freddy Fletcher about how thick the Newcastle fans were that they could milk them for £50 per jersey.
While pop was eating itself, the industry was hungrily chewing the arm that fed it...
*edit* that said, if the Kylie single was "Put Yourself In My Place" and came with the video, I'd thik about it..
I paid £60 to see Radiohead at The Astoria in 1997...
or rather I paid the bloke standing by the stage door to open it for me. It was worth every bloody penny.
I once paid £27
For a Fred Neil CD.
Fairs dos I still play it.
it wasn't this one, was it?
I paid over the odds for that one. Good album, though.
The very same.
Bought in the late nineties, I'd heard one album by him, was obsessed by it and desperate to hear more. Finding this and seeing it was £27 was a moment, I genuinely had very little cash at the time, but I gulped and bought it.
The fact that I still play it shows that it was valued and worth the cash, but God, never before or since have I cracked £20 for a CD.
Alice in a box
Just paid £160+ for the Alice Cooper box (desk) set, looks good but haven't played the CD's or DVD as even the most dedicated fan's are less than enamoured by them and if truth be told I don't want to spoil the 'beauty' of the concept with disapointment of poorly complied content.
DVD Box Sets: Six Feet Under, Seinfeld etc
It's DVD Box-Sets that get me. Even ones I thought were a bargain such as a series of Six Feet Under for £30 (release price was £50) have turned out not to be as they're £12.99 now. You can get the lot for £55 now (5 series in total) and the box is much smaller and neater too! Same issue with Seinfeld boxsets.
I really wanted them at the time though, I didn't want to wait 5 years, so it's ok I suppose.
never mind all that....
.... did you get a shag for your 11 quid ?
sadly, the 11 pounds paid
...didn't lead to me sleeping with any of the Corrs, no.
I know Carolyn's pub in Dundalk
I'll put in a word.
£75, I think, to see
Saint Ry Cooder, a couple of years back, with the wonderful Nick Lowe on bass (and singing some of his own grand songs).
Frightening ticket price, but I hadn't seen Ry stand up and sing, with an electric guitar strapped on, for many years so I bit the bullet. Fantastic gig, but a vicious ticket price...but still, it WAS a fantastic gig.
how much?!
I was utterly astonished when a friend recently alerted me to the fact that a limited edition single by a (very, very minor) band I fronted in the late eighties had been sold on e-bay for £170. I guess the folk who were bidding for it were interested because it is rare, not because it's a work of towering genius (it isn't).
I've got a boxload of these buggers up in my attic. This might just be the break I've been praying for for 20 years ;)
one every six months
don't want to flood the market and devalue them.
hey
Thanks for the tip ;)
I just want to know which
I just want to know which band you were in DC? :)
Vinyl copy of Vauxhall and I
£7.99 from HMV by Bond St in 1994.
Sold for £97 on eBay earlier in the year after 15 years in the garage.
The original prices on various CDs.......
......I stumble over in charity shops are amazing.
My favourite is £18.99 for a, not disagreeable but nevertheless, bog-standard Percy Sledge compilation from 1987 (with no sleeve notes).
What's it worth now
is a game I always play when I come across an old CD that I didn't peel the price label off.
Assume 5% inflation, and that £24 double CD from 1991 comes out as ~£60. Even at 3% it would be £42.
Odds on that I've just seen it in FOPP for £3-£5 !
early 90s
"quality" vinyl lps sell for silly money...
moz, tindersticks, blur, portishead even cockwash like oasis
their respective silver tea-coaster varieties are worthless..
i recall paying £20+ for early import CD copies of the first two stooges albums and "trout mask replica"..now all available at a price less than their shipping rate..