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Crackdown on cheap CD's from Channel Isles

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  • blueboy43
    blueboy43 Posts: 575 Forumite
    Angelic wrote: »
    I am surprised so many still buy CD's. The last songs I bought legally were via Amazon.

    1) Often cheaper than buying downloads.
    2) Sound quality is better, at least its noticeable if played on a decent system. Probably no different is using a cheap pair of earphones.
    3) You don't have the DRM issues.
    4) You can store them no a bookcase, in alphabetical order, catalogue them and generally be a bit more ODC:)
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Whats ODC?
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    Angelic wrote: »
    I am surprised so many still buy CD's. The last songs I bought legally were via Amazon.

    I buy all my music on cds and rip them to my iPod - much cheaper and I like having a physical backup. I only use iTunes for apps.
  • blueboy43
    blueboy43 Posts: 575 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Whats ODC?

    OCD for dyslexics






    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • lemonjelly
    lemonjelly Posts: 8,014 Forumite
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    Not you at all, mind you I'm a vinyl luddite.

    Aaahhhhh! man with taste...true Connoisseur :cool:
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  • split_second
    split_second Posts: 2,761 Forumite
    whenever i buy from the cheap jersey based retailers they take AGES to get here, i bought a book pre released and it arrived a week after release :rolleyes:

    trouble is for anything outside the current charts its online or a 20 mile round trip since the local independent record store closed down :(
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  • Sibley
    Sibley Posts: 1,557 Forumite
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    I'm glad I live in Thailand. CD's are peanuts here and DVD's.

    I just bought a media player with a hard drive containing 150 Blu Ray DVD's. This is how it should be.
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  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    whenever i buy from the cheap jersey based retailers they take AGES to get here, i bought a book pre released and it arrived a week after release :rolleyes:

    Are you sure they were sent from Jersey? Books are zero rated for VAT (i.e. they are VATable but the rate is 0%) so I'd be surprised they were sent that way. Amazon send its books within the UK I believe - i've had some in a couple of days, even on the free delivery.
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    Sibley wrote: »
    I'm glad I live in Thailand. CD's are peanuts here and DVD's.

    I just bought a media player with a hard drive containing 150 Blu Ray DVD's. This is how it should be.

    Blu-ray or DVD (2 different things)... ok nitpicking.

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  • moggylover
    moggylover Posts: 13,324 Forumite
    lemonjelly wrote: »
    So we're not all in this together then. & the poor can bear the tax burden, as the rich won't pay...


    Did you honestly ever think anything else?:)
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