That's really a shame about US online stores. I did not know the
situation were so like this... well, bad.
Another thing i do, from time to time, is buy records thru discogs or
gemm from american not online stores, i mean, stores and dudes that
end up selling online, but they had no proper site or a online
selling system. This case applies to no so new releases and you gotta
trust the person. I never had any trouble though, luckly.
Kw
On 20/04/2008, at 14:21, theREALmxyzptlk wrote:
A-men. For a while after I first retired from GM (and hadn't
appropriately adjusted my outgo with my income), I ordered several
boxes from Hardwax and a few from Clone and RH, but as I have to
make do on blazing the college adjunct trail these days, I can
rarely afford anything I have to import.
I look at the new releases on their sites and drool.
More than anything, I subsist on pay-for downloads from Bleep (when
something lands there I want), sometimes Beatport, or even Boomkat.
Cool or not, I want to listen and slsk just doesn't cover the
economic bases for the artists.
I live just outside of the D, and it's tough getting Detroity
things HERE for Pete's sake. You can't blame the artists for
shipping the wax where it fetches the bacon, but it's a sad state
when one has to import the music made around the corner.
The real b*tch for me about FE is playing the guessing game
concerning whether or not they'll have any of the latest holy
grail. So many times after I have bit the bullet and imported, I've
seen them offer whatever it is I sold my soul to have mailed from
across the pond. The next time I gamble on them, I find all copies
went abroad.
I've gone back and forth on hoarding vinyl (well, not really
*hoarding*...), and while I'd much rather own a RECORD than a file,
these days I don't have much choice and I'm thankful when I can
find someone who sells what I want digitally.
jeff
i want so badly to support rush hour, hardwax and clone, but their
shipping and total cost per record is just...
