popmarket.com

[mjp]

I curse the day I learned of this wretched god damned site!

They keep picking my pocket. Like today:

Definitive Sly & The Family Stone collection - featuring every studio album released by the original group PLUS their full and complete Woodstock performance, the ultimate Sly & The Family Stone tribute album and more!

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I almost pulled the trigger on that one, but the Pogues are tomorrow's deal.

but still, $50 and free shipping is a good deal...

 

[bospress.net]

anyone know what the pogues deal is? I don't care much for non-Shane Pogues....

I gotta jump on that one, yo...

I hope that it is this one:

 

[mjp]

$50 and free shipping is a good deal...

Considering you'd drop $50 on 3 or 4 new CDs in the store, yeah, $50 for 13 discs is a steal. Even though #13 will likely go directly into my garbage can.

They price a lot of things like that though, right at that sweet spot where you say, "Shit, how can I not buy this..." That and the whole "everything-these-guys-ever-recorded" thing. Between those two bits of sucker bait, they must move a lot of product.

I know it's marketing, but I'll accept falling for it as long as they keep delivering things I want to hear.

anyone know what the pogues deal is?

They don't say until the sale starts. You only have 16 more hours to wait. ;)

 

[mjp]

Crazy - a Pearl Jam vinyl set sold out in an hour. I sent the link to a goofball I know who loves Pearl Jam and by the time he clicked on it, they were gone.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

yeah that took no time to sell out. they've had that set before, though. maybe quantities were limited.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I just checked the link again, and it no longer says sold out. tell your goofball. hell, tell all the goofballs.

 

[mjp]

I noticed that earlier, so I sent him the link. He replied back, "Nice, but I don't have a record player, gramps."

Ingrate!

 

[Rekrab]

You have to register/log in just to see the prices? So much for window shopping.

 

[roni]

[...] "Nice, but I don't have a record player, gramps."

tell him, buying collector's items isn't about USING them anyway. He doesn't need a record-player to just HAVE them.

 

[mjp]

Ha! touché. I'll bet a lot of people who buy those don't play them. Like buying a book and never reading it, or buying gold or silver and never spreading it out on the bed and rolling around in it.

 

[esart]

mjp - We have about six or seven silver coins and we have not yet rolled around in them. What's up with that?!

 

[mjp]

I'm afraid they'd stick to my back and then when I got up they'd fall down into my pant cuffs and then when I walked out to get the mail they'd fling out of the cuffs and into the driveway where those kids who have been breaking the ornamental tops off our fenceposts would find them and not realizing what they had spend them at the taco truck or the 7-11 for face value. That's why.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

Is that why mjp has the tramp stamp that says "slot machine"?

 

[mjp]

Dude. When I whisper entre nous, I mean it.

 

[mjp]

I received a Stooges Funhouse LP from these guys yesterday with a mangled corner and they have already shipped me a replacement. Not too shabby. Especially considering that the damage was likely UPS's fault anyway, and I didn't even want the LP, only the CD box that came along with it.

I still hate them, but I hate them a little less now. Run over there today and score "the most comprehensive Billy Joel collection ever!"

Or not.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I really wanted that Atlantic Blues Collection yesterday, but $55 for 4 cds seemed too much. even with free shipping.

 

[mjp]

It's funny, because on some thing their prices seem really low, other things, not so much.

 

[mjp]

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - FLASHBACK - 3 ½ hours of hits, rarities, alt. takes & unreleased material

Wow. Three and a half hours of alternate takes of ELO...the mind boggles (and the stomach turns).

Wait, isn't that a Bukowski poem?

as
the
mind
boggles
the
stomach
turns

 

[Black Swan]

I liked ELO :), the album with the red shoes I always wanted!

 

[d gray]

Wow. Three and a half hours of alternate takes of ELO...the mind boggles (and the stomach turns).

they (he) has a bunch of great tunes.

you really don't like them (him)?

 

[mjp]

I really don't.

 

[nervas]

Received the Stooges package. Already had the vinyl, but the CD set I've only seen for above $50.00. Had a 50% coupon pop market had emailed me, so picked up the package for 24.99! I'm happy!

 

[mjp]

I have a picture too!

I wasn't even going to email them about it, since it's just the corner and I could straighten it out and I don't even really care about it.

Funny though, I got the shipping notice for the replacement and it says it's the bundle, rather than just the LP. And they didn't ask me to send the damaged LP back. So I'm not sure, but I may have got two of the LPs and two of the CD boxes for $25 (thanks to Bill's 50% coupon).

That's one for each ear, which is the proper way to listen to HIGH DEFINITION music such as this.

 

[d gray]

I really don't.

you've got lynne-phoma!....x~O

 

[mjp]

That's just Lynne-sanity.

 

[d gray]

then you oughta be lynne-stitutionalized.

 

[mjp]

I guess I'm out of the loop. I didn't know they pressed old LPs on 12" 45s these days to sell to suckers audiophiles. $60 for two Fleetwood Mac LPs - that may be the non-bargain of the young century.

 

[bospress.net]

I got The Smiths box set and spent about 6 hours driving today listening to nothing but the Smiths. Really great, but now I need to be talked off a ledge....

Bill

 

[hoochmonkey9]

Morrissey can be serious, but a lot of people miss out on his sense of humour. he's a pretty funny guy. lyrically, at least. I'm sure he's a boring twat in real life, but I'll probably never meet him. heh.

I booked myself in at the Y.W.C.A​

I said: "I like it here - can I stay?​

(I like it here - can I stay?)​

I like it here - can I stay?​

(I like it here - can I stay?)​

And do you have a vacancy​

for a back-scrubber?"​

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