This thread originally started as an alert for a cheap Neil Young album, but quickly developed to all round general download / CD bargains.

Title edited accordingly (good suggestion Murf)

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Surely a mistake but Harvest by Neil Young is available to download on Amazon for 69p.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003 ... d_i=468294

I already have the album and I'm still tempted!

Only works off that link - I searched directly on the site and it came more expensive.

So even though I've never listened to Neil Young I thought I'd start with this bargain!

Cheers

Great album - can you find one I haven't got though!


(they also have Lady Goo Goo's double album for £3 if you have another half who, like Mrs m, wants it)

That's Mrs Papp sorted as well!

It's come full circle Mrs K is now the "proud" owner of a Ladyboy Gaga album.

I think I'd prefer the dvd.

I was always amazed that Neil Young managed to record one of the seminal albums of the 70's, only a few years after bagging the winner for Man City in the FA Cup Final at Wembley. What a renaissance man!

[or have I done that gag on here before? probably! ]

No record collection is complete without Harvest and After The Goldrush, imho.
If you don't already have it (why not) this is a bargain not to be missed.

Yeah! Keep on rockin' in the free world.

Just by glancing at your avatar I'd say you look remarkably like Neil Young and here you are on a Neil young inspired thread quoting the title of a famous Neil Young song.

What a coincidence.........or is it a coincidence...........could we be entering the twiglet zone?
do do do, do do do

Don't let it bring you down, Sorbie.

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of Amazon MP3's Knulpuk, only ever used iTunes store before.

Just downloaded Kasabian and Florence for £3 each

I always check here nowadays to find the cheapest place (also does CDs). It isn't perfect but is near enough for cash saving:

http://www.tunechecker.com/

Cheers murf - that tunechecker site is the nuts

I wasn't that complimentary when it was first plugged on FISO (by admin?) but it has improved - especially for us luddites who still buy CDs - and I use it a lot now.

Link no longer works - back to £6.99.

Hope some people secured what is a gem of an album!

Courtesy of Tune Checker:

Amazon is offering £1 off when you spend £5 on any music downloads until 1 March. To get the discount enter the code AMAZONTC at the Amazon* checkout. The code can only be used once per customer.

Title of thread changed given how the thread has developed.

take out an amazon credit card and they give you £15 credit onto it straight away, that'll pay for a few tunes

Worth a shout that the new Gorillaz album (out today) is only 3.99 to download at Amazon - TODAY ONLY.

That's a good spot, Murf, will muse over that.

As an aside, if no-one else minds, I might ask a Mod to merge this thread with this one

amazon-downloads-t54819.html

which was gathering dust a bit.

As far as I can see, Amazon offer a handful of singles free every week, five albums at £5, and then the cheaper albums come and go over time. They have certainly expanded the range of cheap albums for download, albeit less at the £3 mark than when my thread was launched.

What annoys me is having a stack of credit at iTunes and Amazon always undercutting them

I've stickied this thread.
Lets try and keep it updated with bargains

For the record the "Original Album Series" was released at the start of March. "It's 5 classic artist albums in card sleeves featuring the original album artwork housed inside a new card wallet. Nice and simple, no frills just great music! Many of these albums have been unavailable for a number of years."

The artists available, all £14.99 at Amazon (and maybe elsewhere) are :-

Aretha Franklin: Aretha Now / Never Loved A Man.. / Lady Soul / Live At the Fillmore / Spirit In The Dark.
Aztec Camera: Dreamland / Frestonia / High Land Hard Rain / Knife / Stray.
Bobby Darin: Bobby Darin / Sings Ray Charles / That's All / Things & Other Things / This Is Darin.
Bootsy Collins: Ahh..The Name Is Bootsy Baby! / Bootsy? Player Of The Year / Stretchin' Out In A Rubber Band /
This Boot Is Made For Funkin' / Ultra Wave.
Bread: Baby I'm A Want You / Bread / Guitar Man / Manna / On The Water.
Cars: Candy-O / Heartbeat City / Panorama / Shake It Up / The Cars.
Chaka Khan: Chaka / Chaka Khan / I Feel For You / Naughty / What Cha' Gonna Do For Me.
Chris Rea: Espresso Logic / On The Beach / Shamrock Diaries / The Road To Hell / Water Sign.
Detroit Spinners: Live! / Mighty Love / New & Improved / Pick Of The Litter / The Spinners.
Dionne Warwick: Anyone Who Had A Heart / Make Way For / Presenting / Valley Of The Dolls / Windows Of The World.
Dokken: Back For The Attack / Beast From The East / Breaking The Chains / Tooth And Nail / Under Lock And Key.
Donny Hathaway: Donny Hathaway / Everything Is Everything / Extension Of A Man / In Performance / Live.
Dr John: Babylon / Gris-Gris / Gumbo / In The Right Place / The Sun, Moon & Herbs
Drifters: Clyde McPhatter & The Drifters / I'll Take You Where The Music's Playing / Rockin' & Driftin' /
Save The Last Dance For Me / Under The Boardwalk.
Echo & The Bunnymen: Crocodiles / Echo & The Bunnymen / Heaven Up Here / Ocean Rain / Porcupine.
Foghat: Energized / Foghat / Fool For The City / Live / Tight Shoes.
Foreigner: Agent Provocateur / Double Vision / Foreigner / Foreigner 4 / Head Games.
George Benson: Big Boss Band / Breezin' / Give Me The Night / Tenderly / Weekend In LA.
Harry Chapin: Heads & Tales / On The Road To Kingdom Come / Short Stories / Sniper & Other Love Songs / Verities & Balderdash.
J Geils Band: Bloodshot / Ladies Invited / Live: Full House / The J Geils Band / The Morning After.
Jesus And Mary Chain: Automatic / Darklands / Honey's Dead / Psychocandy / Stoned And Dethroned.
Judy Collins: Fifth Album / In My Life / Judith / Who Knows Where The Time Goes / Wildflowers.
Kix: Blow My Fuse / Cool Kids / Hot Wire / Kix / Midnite Dynamite.
Linda Ronstadt: Cry Like A Rainstorm / Living In The USA / Mad Love / Prisoner In Disguise / Simple Dreams.
Little Feat: Dixie Chicken / Feats Don't Fail Me Know / Little Feat / Sailin' Shoes / The Last Record Album.
Los Lobos: And A Time To Dance / By The Light Of The Moon / How Will The Wolf Survive? / Kiko / The Neighborhood.
Manhattan Transfer: Mecca For Modern Lovers / Spirit Of St Louis / Swing / The Manhattan Transfer / Vocalese.
Monkees: Headquarters / Monkees / More Of / Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones / The Birds The Bees & The Monkees.
Natalie Cole: Everlasting / Good To Be Back / Take A Look / Stardust / Unforgettable: With Love.
Otis Redding: Dictionary Of Soul / Otis Blue / Pain In My Heart / Sings Soul Ballads / The Soul Album.
Paul Butterfield: East-West / In My Own Dream / Keep On Moving / Paul Butterfield Blues Band /
The Resurrection Of Pigboy Crabshaw.
Pogues: Hell's Ditch / If I Should Fall From Grace With God / Peace & Love / Red Roses For Me / Rum Sodomy & The Lash.
Pretenders: Get Close / Last Of The Independents / Learning To Crawl / Pretenders / Pretenders II.
Rickie Lee Jones: Girl At Her Volcano / Naked Songs / Pirates / Rickie Lee Jones / The Magazine.
Rod Stewart: Camouflage / Every Beat Of My Heart / Foolish Behaviour / Tonight I'm Yours / Vagabond Heart.
Sisters Of Mercy: A Slight Case Of Overbombing / First And Last And Always / Floodland / Some Girls Wander By Mistake / Vision Thing.
Slave: Just A Touch Of Love / Stone Jam / Slave / The Concept / The Hardness Of The World.
Todd Rundgren: Faithful / Runt / Runt: The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren / The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect /
The Hermit Of Mink Hollow.
Warren Zevon: Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School / Envoy / Excitable Boy / Stand in The Fire / Warren Zevon

The only thing I'm not sure about is whether they are digitally re-mastered or not. Maybe not but at £3 each, they sound good value and a good place to learn a bit about a new artist. I need some Echo & The Bunnymen albums, rather than my current mish mash of compilations.

The Pogues is coming on board to refresh the current vinyl / TDK D90 set up!

Phew - just got an e-mail from Bang CD saying they have cancelled my order of the Gorillaz CD (I pre-ordered it yonks ago (£6.99) yet still got a despatch date of next ****ing week).

Managed to take up the Amazon offer with 37 minutes to spare. Tight? Moi?

Got the Gorrilaz album on the £3.99 spesh - had a listen this morning - there is an awful lot going on! Looking forward to hearing again this eveining.

Nice spot Murf.

I left my iPod in the car last night and wasn't going out at 11:30 to fetch it! I'll upload it or whatever it is that young people do with their music playing devices later and listen in the car tomorrow.

IMHO - everyone does : those first 5 albums, recorded by the classic line-up, are all must-haves. It's easy to spot the digitally re-mastered versions because they all have a fair number of extra tracks - and they really are a significant improvement on the original CD releases, particularly Heaven Up Here.

I'm not dabbling myself but the new White Stripes live album out today is 3.99 on Amazon download.

Haven't seen why but it might be a one day offer to get up into the new midweek chart like Gorillaz last week.

Thanks AkNotSpur. I've ordered three of the EATB albums (the remastered versions) along with the best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac and the best of The Move. Should while a way a few happy hours...