Music on Special Offer Thread?
Posted by: sjt on 14 December 2016
I am wondering if it would be legit to have a thread in here dedicated to music album downloads from legitimate retailers that are currently on special offer.
As an example I was just looking through the what are you listening to mega thread just now and came across the Melody Gardot record because someone was listening to it. I have wanted this for a while but it was always expensive (about 20 quid). On a whim I went over to a place I usually go to buy music downloads and by a blind stroke of luck it was on special offer at just over half price. Deluxe edition is cheaper than the standard edition! I bought it straight away.
So I thought it might be a good idea to have a thread dedicated to posting albums that are on special offer at the moment with not-so-subtle hints as to where you could get them from, when the offer expires and how much is knocked off etc, so people could see instantly anything that was on special. It would certainly be a thread I would come back to often.
I did a search and couldn't find anything like this in the forum, but usually the searches on these forums are rubbish so this is not a guarantee!
There might need to be a few rules, e.g. the poster has no affiliation with the seller, only legitimate download shops / sites etc.
Just a thought still in the half-bakery...
Posted on: 11 August 2017 by sjt
A couple of LPs by Maxence Cyrin on qobuz for £2.40 marked down from £12!
Posted on: 11 August 2017 by VladtheImpala
You're most welcome, it's a cracking collection and I'm sure some kind if pricing error. It's £77.88 on Qobuz
Downloaded with HDTracks discount and sorted into individual albums with cover art. Then looking for Velvet Darkness. I see 7digital are doing this package for £11.99. Which beats HDTracks by a fiver.
£11.99 for nearly 100 tracks in 24/96 by the legendary Allan Holdsworth is just criminal.
Thanks very much for this - downloading from 7Digital now!
Posted on: 13 August 2017 by Nick Lees
I must confess to having gone a bit Bert in the Qobuz sale (especially when combined with the Sublime discounts).
Something worth highlighting though, is this - Clearlight's Symphony II. It's a nice bit of French instrumental symphonic prog much in the style of early Mike Oldfield (even though it dates from 1990). There's a 20 minute track featuring Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe and Steve Hillage too.
And it's...£0.96p!
http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/alb...rlight/3700403512649
Posted on: 14 August 2017 by AndyP19
Bert is a legend.
Great tip re. Clearlight given the price and featured guests (Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe and Steve Hillage) - the latter being one of the great under-rated guitarists.
Posted on: 14 August 2017 by Nick Lees
All of know is that, if I'm naughty in this life, I'll be reincarnated as Bert's NAS.
Posted on: 14 August 2017 by Stevee_S
All of know is that, if I'm naughty in this life, I'll be reincarnated as Bert's NAS.
Nick, you'll then become larger than life ! 
Posted on: 17 August 2017 by Toe
The Rollin Stones in mono available in high res on Qobuz for £54.23!
Posted on: 17 August 2017 by northpole
Or if you subscribe, Qobuz will let you have it for £30.91!!
Peter
Posted on: 19 August 2017 by Richard Morris
More labels added to the Qobuz sale, I think. Don't recall seeing Universal, Capitol or Blue Note before.
Posted on: 19 August 2017 by Nick Lees
Capitol and Blue Note were added earlier, but the Universal addition is massive, 61 pages (OK lots of Charles Aznavour towards the end) including Beck, Lennon, Rush, Who, Stones, Velvets, early Scott Walker, Nick Drake, Rush, Donna Summer, Grace Jones etc. etc.
And more classical than you could shake a stick at.
Good call sir.
Posted on: 19 August 2017 by hungryhalibut
I'm not going to look. I spent £100 on Vivaldi albums on Naïve at £3.60 each a couple of days ago.
Posted on: 20 August 2017 by Ardbeg10y
I'm not going to look. I spent £100 on Vivaldi albums on Naïve at £3.60 each a couple of days ago.
GBP 3.60 was enough since all Vivaldi works sound the same.
Posted on: 20 August 2017 by Ardbeg10y
All of know is that, if I'm naughty in this life, I'll be reincarnated as Bert's NAS.
Nick, you'll then become larger than life !
I'll be happy to return as one of his accoustic panels ...
Posted on: 25 August 2017 by keith waring
A nice cd on for a reasonable price is Pure Prairie League,two albums on one cd, two lane highway and if the shoe fits . Cd is a hybrid sacd and multi channel,from the master tapes,sounds very nice , 10 pounds 99 from the label direct Vocalion.
Posted on: 25 August 2017 by Richard Morris
Just been looking at The BNF Collection in the Qobuz sale. 41,555 albums, no less, all 50% off. Annoyingly you can't search by genre but it's mainly classical.
Posted on: 25 August 2017 by Bert Schurink
Only 45 euros when you are on Qobuz sublime...
Posted on: 31 August 2017 by Bert Schurink
Highresaudio.com has now a deal in which you buy a voucher of a value of 50 euros or more and you get a value back of 10 percent more. If you frequently buy at this site then it might be a good 10% discount. For one thing they do have in general the cheapest ECM high resolution albums....
Posted on: 03 September 2017 by Bert Schurink
Only 45 euros when you are on Qobuz sublime...
Interesting last week you could get it for days for 45 euros. Now a special deal and you would pay over 70 euros, I think I missed something....
Posted on: 04 September 2017 by sjt
Not a specific special offer, but I have found Chandos records to be fairly consistently cheaper than most other high res and flac sites. For example, I just bought "This England" - Works by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten by the Oregon Symphony and Carlos Kalmar. On Qobuz and HRA it was about 15 pounds in Flac 24/96, but on Chandos it was £9.79.
Posted on: 08 September 2017 by AndyP19
Just downloaded the 'new' Neil Young album Hitchhicker on 7Digital in their Deals of the Week section (which is always worth a visit) 16bit for £7.99.
Posted on: 08 September 2017 by Timmo1341
Only 45 euros when you are on Qobuz sublime...
Interesting last week you could get it for days for 45 euros. Now a special deal and you would pay over 70 euros, I think I missed something....
£7:34p for this in January this year!!
Posted on: 08 September 2017 by Bert Schurink
Only 45 euros when you are on Qobuz sublime...
Interesting last week you could get it for days for 45 euros. Now a special deal and you would pay over 70 euros, I think I missed something....
£7:34p for this in January this year!!
Sometimes the prices in the U.K. are surprisingly low, I should have an UK account as well.
Posted on: 08 September 2017 by Harry
A UK account is a good idea. I've nailed some ridiculous bargains around Christmas time with a UK account. Lou Reed's RCA catalogue in Hi Res plus Beethoven 1-9, and change from twenty quid. My original French account doesn't always pick up the lowest prices.
Posted on: 09 September 2017 by Bert Schurink
Posted on: 09 September 2017 by Bert Schurink
A UK account is a good idea. I've nailed some ridiculous bargains around Christmas time with a UK account. Lou Reed's RCA catalogue in Hi Res plus Beethoven 1-9, and change from twenty quid. My original French account doesn't always pick up the lowest prices.
So how do I create an UK account. I more or less mentioned it as a joke, but realized that the U.K. Offers are sometimes very very good ?
