I took a look at the CD swapping site hitflip.co.uk, after seeing it recommended in The Independent newspaper. Here’s the deal: Disposing of CDs You list all your unwanted CDs (DVDs, games, etc). Each one is assigned a value in “flips”, the currency of hitflip. Currently a flip is worth £2.30; CDs tend to be [...]
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The declining price of recorded music
I recently purchased a second-hand copy of Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin’s tour de force from 1975. These sell for anything from £1.50 – £8.00 or so on eBay. Mine was the old unremastered release which usually sells at the upper end of the range, as there are fewer of them circulating and some people prefer [...]
ELP: bombast or brilliance?
From time to time I get an urge to revisit past musical pleasures. The other day it was Emerson Lake and Palmer, and I dug out Brain Salad Surgery, the eponymous first album, and the sprawling live affair Welcome Back my Friends. I can’t make up my mind about this band. It seems to be [...]
Fripp’s Exposure: a reissue done right
My copy of the Exposure re-release arrived today. It’s priced like a single CD but the package contains two, one the original 1979 release, and the second a 1983 remix called confusingly “third edition”. This takes a bit of untangling. Exposure was intended as part three of a “MOR trilogy”, where part one was Daryl [...]