What did you buy with the 40% off at B & N?

Well, I could not resist going to Barnes and Noble with the 40 % off on cds coupon this weekend. Actually, I hit the one closest to me yesterday and the next nearest today.

I can not believe how much I spent! But, look how much I saved! (see that's what I told my wife.)

Got a bunch of stuff I've been meaning to pick up for ages (and a couple that just followed me home like the Dave Edmunds Anthology).

And nine Rolling Stones SACDs - including spare copies of Metamorphosis, Between the Buttons (US) and Out of Our Heads (US) - anybody want to trade for ones I stiill need (incl. England's Newest, December's Children, Let it Bleed, Ya Ya's, Hot Rocks, More Hot, High Tide, Singles)?

Also scored one Steve Hoffman disc - Dave Mason's 2fer of "It's Like You Never Left/ Dave Mason"!

So what did you use your coupon for?

 

the new k.d. lang & gnarls barkley discs, and the Emmylou 'Songbird' box.

 

Bloody little unfortunately. I always bin those e-mails since I live 3200 miles from the nearest Barnes & Noble. However, I'm visiting my parents at the moment and they have a B&N about a 5 minute drive away. Spent about an hour rooting, passed on Glenn Gould's Bach Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 (didn't even feel like paying 40% off $35), got a couple of indie CDs for my wife (a Phoenix album and Bloc Party's Something For The Weekend) and grabbed the Living Stereo SACD of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra just so as to buy something for myself. I was sorely tempted by a couple of boxed sets, particularly the Rhino Girl Group one, but couldn't bear the thought of having to figure out how to get the hat box packaging home without destroying it.

Geoff

 

Well I spent quite a bit and am proud of it!!! Among my stack of purchases, managed to pick up the SACD edition of "War of the Worlds" for $13.49 and the Loreena McKennitt box set "The journey begins" for $19.43.

Hope everyone else did well.

Friday night the place was busy with customers with stacks of CD's in the one hand and their coupon in the other.

 

I did pretty well:

Bob Dylan - Freewheelin Bob Dylan (SACD)
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home (SACD)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (SACD)

Rolling Stones - Got Live if You Want It (SACD)
Rolling Stones - Singles Collection (SACD)

Joe Jackson - Rain
Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything
Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play: Live at Birdland

 

Grateful Dead - Reckoning (2CD)
Grateful Dead - Dead Set (2CD)
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series 4

I found the coupon to be a good value on multi-disc sets. For a single CD it merely lowered the price to what I would pay elsewhere

 

All I managed to get was the remaster of Living Colour's Vivid (for the bonus tracks), the new Black Crowes and Tepid Peppermint Wonderland, a 2-disc compilation by the Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Picked up a handful of Stones SACDs, then put them back, and did likewise with the first 4 Ramones albums. I've bought that stuff several times over the years, and couldn't justify doing it again, even at a decent price.

 

I bought the Grateful Dead Beyond Description Box.

 

Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (SACD)
Dylan - Blonde on Blonde (SACD)
Dylan - Infidels (SACD)

. . and had non-buyers remorse for not getting more.

 

for me:
Los Lobos, "Kiko"
Wilco, "Summerteeth"
Widespread Panic, "Free Somehow"
Warren Zevon, "Stand in the Fire"
Jennifer Warnes, "Famous Blue Raincoat"
Levon Helm, "Dirt Farmer"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, "Murder Ballads"

for the wifey:
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch" soundtrack
Feist, "Let it Die"
Feist, "The Reminder"
Barbara Streisand, "Duets"

All for right about $100... pretty good.

Then I went to a local store to pick up a few more...

 

Rolling Stones - Got Live if You Want It (SACD)
Rolling Stones - Aftermath UK (SACD)
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall (CD+DVD)
Beatles - Love (CD + DVD)

 

George Harrison - Live in Japan - SACD
Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire - CD/DVD
Doors - Live in Pittsburgh
Monkees - Greatest Hits on Rhino

 

My B&N doesn't carry CD's, so I was outta luck.

James

 

James Taylor - "Live" 2 disc set

 

Paul Lewis' Beethoven Piano Sonatas, volume #3, on Harmonia Mundi.

http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/product.asp?WRK=14524034

 

There was a 40% off coupon this past weekend?

 

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Man To Man (JAD box)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Fy-ah Fy-ah (JAD box)
Merle Haggard - The Original Outlaw (Time-Life box)
The Motown Box (stereo Motown box)
Michael Franks - Anthology
Ashford & Simpson - The Warner Bros. Years: Hits, Remixes and Rarities

 

lindsey buckingham - live at bass hall

tift merritt - another country w/the bonus disc

 

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (Rhino re-master; this thing's been sitting on their shelf for YEARS)

The Smiths LOUDER THAN BOMBS
Miles Davis ON THE CORNER
Miles Davis JACK JOHNSON
Bobby Hutcherson STICK UP (Conn with OBI)

 

i also wanted to buy the whiskeytown "strangers almanac" deluxe edition, but they didn't have it.

 

Is that the lindsey buckingham CD/DVD combo? Is the video really 4x3 and not widescreen?

I'm broke but my wife picked up the "My Lives" box set.

Pat

 

Rounder 4CD box - Roots Music, An American Journey
The Real Tuesday Weld - London Book of the Dead (this is GREAT!)
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Bedlam Ballroom
Kirsty MacColl - Tropical Brainstorm
Ute Lemper - But One Day
Astor Piazzolla - The Soul of Tango
Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe
Tony Bennett/k.d.lang - Wonderful World

 

I agree with cdash99. 40% off a 18.98 CD is still too much! So I almost walked out with nothing...but discount seemed more reasonable on multi-cd sets (and anything less than $12). I ended up with:

- John Coltrane - A Love Supreme [Deluxe 2cd] (~$18.)
- Otis Redding - Dreams to Remember [2cd] (~$20.)
- Arcade Fire - debut EP (~$7)

 

Was it 1 day only? E-mail?

 

I saw the same spec a couple of places - just couldn't confirm one way or the other - crossed my fingers and picked one up...

It's anamorphic widescreen...
Well, the concert anyway, the 'behind the scenes' extra is 4x3 letterbox...