Hi everyone. Any ideas on how to look for the cheaper Deluxe box on sale as of TODAY? Shipping internationally? Do you use a special price comparison page? Thanks!!
Best place to start is each of the major Amazon stores that might ship to you. The most recent Archive box sets occasionally dip down into sane pricing territories (Tug of War, Pipes of Peace, occasionally Flowers in the Dirt, possibly Flaming Pie & WIld Life). For the earlier sets (McC 1 & 2, BOTR, Venus & Mars, Speed of Sound) I’ve not readily found them outside of ebay, and when I have found them, they’re not cheap. I’ve also used a price tracking site camelcamelcamel.com for tracking prices on Amazon sites over time. Useful for entering the max price you’d be prepared to pay for a given item, then getting an email notification if/when the item meets or drops below that price.
Excellent! Thanks for the detailed reply. I'm in Argentina and the Deluxe box is rounding $350, but I noticed a few shipping from UK at around 250 total price. One of them on eBay at a suspicious $180 and even $130. I'm not sure about those, i've only ordered internationally a few times, never through Ebay.
$320 USD equates to £225 GBP, the UK price at release was £229 or £219 (I forget). Amazon US has had the set cheaper than this, although it sounds that even if the price were to drop further, the delivery charges likely won’t. Is the set from Amazon US themselves or via a third party Marketplace seller?
Seller is Amazon US. I was thinking the same, no matter the price drop I still have to add an extra $150 for delivery. Biggest price drop was all the way down to $118USD. So I don't really know how much trouble i'd be saving myself if I pay 15 or 20 USD less by buying on Amazon rather than my local dealer. It's still around 300 total, and I don't know if there's any cheaper delivery options with a courier company but it doesn't look like there are any.
Finally getting around to reading the Flaming Pie book. Paul, Jeff and Ringo did three jams yet only Looking For You and Really Love You were used. Yet another tantalizing morsel seeming locked away forever now in the vaults from this era along with: those unheard tracks with Steve Miller Angel In Disguise Cello In Ruins Any others? Memory almost full. Can't recall.
Perhaps it's been like this for a while but I've just observed that the 3 digital only tracks are now all available for download on Paul's website. Previously 2 of them were stream only at other sites. Calico Skies ['In The World Tonight' Campfire Acoustic] Alternative acoustic version of 'Calico Skies', part of which is featured on the 'In The World Tonight' documentary. Download exclusively with NME.com Somedays [Without Orchestra] Listen to the original album version without orchestra presented exclusively with www.clashmusic.com Beautiful Night [1986] Original 1986 version which is featured on ‘Oobu Joobu Part 5’.
I’m not absolutely positive, but I think those tracks were available shortly after the release of the FP archive. I have had them since then. However, thanks for the heads up!
That's the one I meant, Broomstick. It's too late for me to delete my post stating young boy. I guess my love of B-Sides got the better of me.
Truly some fantastic stuff right here. Also, I regard the obujuboo(sp.) wide screen radio sessions as one of the several coolest things he did.
Rolling Stone featured it in this link provided by @Maranatha5585 in another thread: Paul McCartney, Steve Miller Team Up for Rare Instrumental 'Broomstick' From 'Flaming Pie' Sessions
Nooooo... Perhaps it's still better than... No, nothing comes to mind Really Love You shoudn't have been on there either, but the Twin Freaks version is greast.
