Amazon AU price watch thread...

This one appears to be linked to it all as well:

closeout crate on PopMarket

No shipping for LIB box to Australia (US$54 for the box).

 

Count Ossie & The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari


Tales Of Mozambique (2LP)

$29.99

https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0BP75WD14/

Soul Jazz Records

 

My card just got charged for this one so it's happening.

 

Yep it is and they always charge eyewatering shipping. They used to be part of Sony and did quite good deals shipping to Australia. Those days are long gone!
Also Walmart USA are linked, Amazon US for some distribution, DeepDiscount, All Your Music, WowHD and ImportCD. World's largest distributor!!!

 

Preorder of The National new LP is $25

First Two Pages Of Frankenstein https://amzn.asia/d/enwZ8oV

 

Pixies Vinyl LP for $23

Come On Pilgrim https://amzn.asia/d/84pfqLA

 

Damon Albarm Vinyl LP $30

The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows https://amzn.asia/d/dg3XJFM

 

Nightmares on Wax Vinyl LP $27

I know nothing about these and have not heard them either. But full brownie points for the amp stack cover and it's $70+ from other sellers on Amazon!

Double gatefold vinyl reissue of 2006 album. In A Space Outta Sound signals a return to N.O.W.'s roots in soundsystem culture, featuring fan favourite "You Wish", the dubwise "Flip Ya Lid" ft. Ricky Ranking The BugRoots Manuva and the soulful "I Am You" ft. Mozez Zero 7. Includes a download card to access full audio. pi "straddles the line between evolving style and signature sound brilliantly" i Matthew Gasteier, Prefix Mag

In A Space Outta Sound https://amzn.asia/d/955j8W0

 

Guided By Voices

Styles We Paid For LP
$35
https://amzn.asia/d/aUdrjOr

 

I did buy the massive Miles Davis box set in the trumpet case that arrived in less than a week. I thought to myself at the time that the shipping would have cost Pop Market way more than the box.

 

I remember that Trumpet box deal!!!!

 

Ordered June 22
Received today.

 

My Bill Withers Greatest Hits (MFSL) vinyl shipped today. U never know with MOFI titles…always a gamble with Amazon whether they will get stock.

Michael Jackson SACD of Thriller is a perfect example of one that I will be amazed if it ever ships.

 

What's not to like apart from the price....which at $75 is still cheaper than anyone else I could find.....but I'll just have to leave a pile of the same albums on the coffee table instead...

Limited-time deal: Rock Covers https://amzn.asia/d/a6ThJTC

...or just buy the smaller version for $34 instead!!!

Rock Covers. 40th Ed. https://amzn.asia/d/aHl75YY

 

Madonna

Finally Enough Love 2x LP
$37
https://amzn.asia/d/i6FigrZ

 

George Michael

Older super deluxe 5x CD + 3x LP
$93 (Amazon AU OOS)
https://amzn.asia/d/6UY8QzG

 

Ultravox

Vienna super deluxe 5x CD + DVD
$85
https://amzn.asia/d/e49OYFf

 

Nancy Sinatra

Boots LP (Light In The Attic)
$31
https://amzn.asia/d/aE5CqkF

 

From the Amazon Warehouse used goods section:

King Crimson


Starless (23CD/2DVD/2Blu-ray)

$135

Server Busy

Amazon Au have 2 in stock at this price

Used product.

 

I notice the latest sales promotion push by record companies is for "Virgin Vinyl" Is this marketing wankery? What is the difference between virgin and non-virgin vinyl? - is non-virgin vinyl recycled vinyl?

Do record companies these days actually recycle old records to make new records?

 

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Another marketing ploy, like the "audiophile 180g" pressing.
Actual meaning is "mastered from CD, pressed by hacks at some pressing plant, who have very little skill to press on 180g vinyl, comes in the cheapest abrasive paper inner, it's warped and sounds like ****, but we call it audiophile to sell more".

Probably implies that it's not made from recycled vinyl at the pressing plant. I've seen those videos, where warped or otherwise poor pressings have the label punched out and are reprocessed.

 

When there was the oil crisis in the 70s record companies started using recycled vinyl, and after that recycled recycled vinyl. By the time cassettes were getting big they started pressing promos on 'virgin vinyl' and the rest of the poor schmucks had to make do with the worst possible pressings (all of which sell for silly prices on Discogs nowadays)

 

The best argument that I have heard that ''Virgin vinyl'' and 180g pressings may have better sound quality - and it's a big may - is that record companies will be more vigilant in the pressing of these records: better engineering, quality control etc. because buyers will expect better quality. Nothing to do with the quality or weight of the vinyl.

My experience is that "virgin vinyl" and 180g pressings are no better or worse than standard pressings.

 

Franz Ferdinand - Hits to the Head deluxe Casebound edition CD

$9

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09KLLQ94T?psc=1&smid=ANEGB3WVEVKZB&ref_=chk_typ_quicklook_imgToDp

 

When my parents were newly married in the swinging 60s, Mum sent my Dad to buy some Virginian Ham. He mistakedly asked for some Virgin Ham....and the man in the butcher shop quickly replied "We don't see much of that these days Sir!!!"