Buying UK Music in the US???
Aug 11th 2005, 11:24 pm
#16
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Re: Buying UK Music in the US???
Heavenly days!
All sorts of sites to order UK music or I would have taken hostages by now!
amazon.co.uk comes to mind, along with the Hong-Kong based cdwow.com -- ya gotta take a look at the latter sight. There are many indie labels that you can buy directly from, like http://www.cookingvinyl.com/ .
Check out:
http://www.cdzone.co.uk/
All sorts of sites to order UK music or I would have taken hostages by now!
amazon.co.uk comes to mind, along with the Hong-Kong based cdwow.com -- ya gotta take a look at the latter sight. There are many indie labels that you can buy directly from, like http://www.cookingvinyl.com/ .
Check out:
http://www.cdzone.co.uk/
Aug 12th 2005, 12:02 am
#17
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Re: Buying UK Music in the US???
Originally Posted by Bob
there's plenty of legit sites, there's the new napster, which is a good deal...then real player do one, itunes, there are loads to chose from and some do really good subscription rates...
some sites have other formats like monkey, flac etc, which aren't compressed formats, so huge, but top quality sound.
some sites have other formats like monkey, flac etc, which aren't compressed formats, so huge, but top quality sound.
Is there anything that doesn't require pissin' about with licenses and protected content and all that entails? If it was a case of $50 and you can download 100 songs that you can play freely on anything, I'd cough up. If it's protected, I can't be bothered as it's easy on P2P.
Aug 12th 2005, 1:07 am
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Re: Buying UK Music in the US???
Originally Posted by fatbrit
Is there anything that doesn't require pissin' about with licenses and protected content and all that entails? If it was a case of $50 and you can download 100 songs that you can play freely on anything, I'd cough up. If it's protected, I can't be bothered as it's easy on P2P.
Aug 12th 2005, 3:19 am
#19
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Re: Buying UK Music in the US???
Originally Posted by Bob
It's $15 a month unlimited downloads on Napster, that's a bargain if you like your music...and yes it does have some form of digital rights management, but unlike with itunes/ipod...you won't have a problem playing it on most mp3 players and be able to burn it to cd's.
http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/
Aug 12th 2005, 6:28 am
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Re: Buying UK Music in the US???
Ebay is way cheaper.
Originally Posted by Minty
Having lived in the US now for nearly 4 months, I realise one of the things I miss is an HMV or a Virgin Mega Store for browsing and buying music.
I have not found anything here yet that even comes close (Best Buy is sort of OK ish!)
Can you buy from Amazon.co.uk and have it shipped to the US. Amazon.com is full of US music!!
I see than HMV will be starting music downloads soon which may be an answer.
What is the best way to browse and buy UK music? Any good suggestions?
Minty
I have not found anything here yet that even comes close (Best Buy is sort of OK ish!)
Can you buy from Amazon.co.uk and have it shipped to the US. Amazon.com is full of US music!!
I see than HMV will be starting music downloads soon which may be an answer.
What is the best way to browse and buy UK music? Any good suggestions?
Minty
