Mail Order websites
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Mail Order websites
Thought it would be useful to have a thread dedicated to just Mail Order websites of any genre. Got this one http://www.klang-records.co.uk/klang/index.html from somewhere off this website and it's quite good. This one http://calabashmusic.com/ is also excellent.
Found this mail order site while looking for Christina Carter and Inca Ore.
http://www.volcanictongue.com/?page_id=6
http://www.volcanictongue.com/?page_id=6
I have this bookmark saved as
"Do not visit this site unless you have won the Lottery"
http://www.boomkat.com/
"Do not visit this site unless you have won the Lottery"
http://www.boomkat.com/
..my favorite:
http://www.forcedexposure.com/
and
http://www.twistedvillage.com/
and Byron Coley's
http://www.yod.com/
http://www.forcedexposure.com/
and
http://www.twistedvillage.com/
and Byron Coley's
http://www.yod.com/
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ro wrote:I have this bookmark saved as
"Do not visit this site unless you have won the Lottery"
http://www.boomkat.com/
hahahahahaha ro you always slay me.
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Good work the Jig.The Jig wrote:Found this mail order site while looking for Christina Carter and Inca Ore.
http://www.volcanictongue.com/?page_id=6
Plenty Chocolate Monk (label) releases to be found there. It's ran by David Keenan who was Mr. 18 Wheeler, Mr. Telstar Ponies and is now concentrating his own work (and probably has been since the late '90s) on Improv pieces under various guises; Phantom Engineer, Tarpuis Tauli and Tight Meat [Duo]. Also a sometime contributor to the Wire and a walking encyclopedia of Kosmiche.
Me, i've never visited the shop (on Argyle St. open Tue-Sat) I just get high as a futhermucker reading the descriptive text about the artists and not really sure what it all really means!
ciao-der
Last edited by Stuart X.Hunter on Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:22 am, edited 1 time in total.
Apparently, if you want royal treatment, you should shop at CDBaby.
I bought one cd and they sent me this affectionate letter:
# Description Price Total
=== =========== ===== =====
1 VOMICA: vomica $13.00 $13.00
Sub Total $13.00
Shipping $2.25
Grand Total $15.25
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Tuesday, March 13th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh...
I bought one cd and they sent me this affectionate letter:
# Description Price Total
=== =========== ===== =====
1 VOMICA: vomica $13.00 $13.00
Sub Total $13.00
Shipping $2.25
Grand Total $15.25
Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.
We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Tuesday, March 13th.
I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Sigh...
I've been reading the reviews on that site for a while now and am up to about 60 albums i want to buy......Think i'll just buy half a dozen instead.eleKtroniK:musiK wrote:
http://www.volcanictongue.com/?page_id=6
I just get high as a futhermucker reading the descriptive text about the artists and not really sure what it all really means!
Re: Mail Order websites/Dead.net
Bumping this thread up so I can vent a little about the Grateful Dead's mail order service, http://www.dead.net/
I had great experiences in the past - friendly, responsive, efficient. I subscribed to this latest 'Dave's Picks' series which is 4 box sets of CDs, all beautifully packaged and numbered. The first one - a 3 CD custom designed set with booklet - arrived the other day in possibly the cheapest, least efficient bubble envelope I have ever seen. Inevitably it got damaged in transit and the housing is broken. You can't just replace this part as the whole box is one piece. I wrote to them and got such an indifferent response saying there weren't any further copies available. I tried to draw their attention to the shitty packaging material used and I got another response from some guy saying he wasn't at the warehouse so had no control over what the CDs are mailed in. I've posted hundreds of records and CDs in my time - still do - and have never used materials like this, so for such a huge band to run their mail order like this is pretty disappointing.
Why use such a flimsy mailer for CD set which has obviously had a lot of care and love put into it? It's bizarre. The Dead are meant to have a seriously good organisation running the operation - or so I thought. Poor packaging is a bad start but to be so uncaring after the sale is just rubbish customer service. Deadheads may be scarce on this forum but if any read this just be warned.
I had great experiences in the past - friendly, responsive, efficient. I subscribed to this latest 'Dave's Picks' series which is 4 box sets of CDs, all beautifully packaged and numbered. The first one - a 3 CD custom designed set with booklet - arrived the other day in possibly the cheapest, least efficient bubble envelope I have ever seen. Inevitably it got damaged in transit and the housing is broken. You can't just replace this part as the whole box is one piece. I wrote to them and got such an indifferent response saying there weren't any further copies available. I tried to draw their attention to the shitty packaging material used and I got another response from some guy saying he wasn't at the warehouse so had no control over what the CDs are mailed in. I've posted hundreds of records and CDs in my time - still do - and have never used materials like this, so for such a huge band to run their mail order like this is pretty disappointing.
Why use such a flimsy mailer for CD set which has obviously had a lot of care and love put into it? It's bizarre. The Dead are meant to have a seriously good organisation running the operation - or so I thought. Poor packaging is a bad start but to be so uncaring after the sale is just rubbish customer service. Deadheads may be scarce on this forum but if any read this just be warned.