Rolling still cheap on Amie Street thread
Given the price increases at eMu, I'm sure most of you are looking for other ways to fuel your music Jonze.
Many of us are spending more time on Amie Street, so I thought it might be good to have a thread where we
post good albums we find there that are still cheap. What is cheap? I'll say around $3-$3.50 or less.
Remember that utilizing Amie Street's frequent credit sales (50% or 25% off) and extra credit RECs drives the
price down even further - I calculate that I get about $2.60 worth or credit for every real dollar the put in my
account. Your mileage may vary.
When possible, write descriptive a line or two the help the curious:
Many of us are spending more time on Amie Street, so I thought it might be good to have a thread where we
post good albums we find there that are still cheap. What is cheap? I'll say around $3-$3.50 or less.
Remember that utilizing Amie Street's frequent credit sales (50% or 25% off) and extra credit RECs drives the
price down even further - I calculate that I get about $2.60 worth or credit for every real dollar the put in my
account. Your mileage may vary.
When possible, write descriptive a line or two the help the curious:
Comments
Currently going for about 20 cents a track.
Craig
Here's a few good to excellent albums that I found which can still be had at a bargain price:
Ghost Notes by Matthew Barber. Canadian folk-rock singer-songwriter with a very pleasant voice who writes intelligent lyrics with memorable melodies. I would pay full price for this CD, but snagged it at AmieStreet after hearing the song "Easily Bruised" on Amazon. It's a real bargain at $3.31 currently (or you can download the track "Easily Bruised" for free at Amazon, and the track "One Little Piece of My Love" for free at Paste, and reduce the AmieStreet price to $2.70).
AmieStreet also has Barber's EP Side Notes, which is also excellent. Here's another one I would pay regular price for in a record store to get. A 5-track EP at 27 cents a track for a total of $1.35. You can get it at that "other place," but why would you want to pay more there for it?
Newcastle UK 24-05-03 by Eddi Reader is a 2-CD live recording that is very good. A lot of the songs included here are Robert Burns songs, sung beautifully by Reader, who has a very lovely voice. One of the non-Burns songs is an excellent cover of Tim Buckley's Dolphins. 21 tracks for $2.95 makes it a real bargain.
Red by Mike Kavanaugh. A good folksy blues CD infused with plenty of bluesy guitar breaks throughout. I only have a small complaint of this CD - I wish Kavanaugh's vocals were not quite so fuzzy as they are on all the tracks except a couple of songs. I suppose since not every track sounds this way, that it is an intentional thing, but I would have liked it all better if the vocals were more clear and not fuzzed. This small gripe is not enough for me to dislike the album, though. And it's certainly well worth the $1.82 you'll pay at AmieStreet for it.
The Crack O'Noon Club by Jim Hunter. Now this is exactly the kind of CD I used to be able to discover by taking a chance over at that other place when downloads were cheaper. Jim Hunter is, of all things, a Scots Highlander who plays the blues. I thought the samples sounded so-so, but perhaps promising, perhaps not - I would never spend my valuable downloads on something like this now. But at AmieStreet's price, I took the chance after reading up on who this guy was and finding quite a few very favorable reviews on 'Crack O'Noon Club. Favorable reviews are a good indicator, but still are no guarantee that I will like it. I downloaded it. Started listening. The first track sounded a little strange at first. But at least I didn't spend a lot on it. As the CD kept playing, I began to change my mind. Wow - this is good stuff. Really good stuff! fter listening to it once through, I played it a 2nd time. Yeah, really good stuff. Standout tracks are "Crazy Days," "Waterfall," "Howling at the Moon," "Bitter Sweet" and "Close to the Truth." But it's all really fine stuff. It's definitely worth its current price of $2.11. I would venture to say I would probably even pay full price for this CD.
Tectonic Plates vol. 2 is an excellent recent compilation that I'd already purchased elsewhere, but for only $2.87 is worth pointing out for you lot!
Future Disco - another comp, also excellent, has some truly great tracks including a 71 minute mix and it's only just crept up over $5!
I'll add some more when I get a chance, but have to do some work now :-(
Also, is there a label search function over there? That would be handy.
And I didn't get the email about redownloading, so it may not have gone to everyone after all.
I'm not a huge Interpol guy, but for under $2 I can't say no!
Craig
Everything they have out is worth getting. Yancey admitted they were one of his favorite groups too.
Also, a Hope Sandoval single - she was the singer in Mazzy Star.
Let's try a link...
http://amiestreet.com/browse/new#/music/odiorne/heavy-wish/
Anyway, sorry I can't give more info on the album, but I'm just so excited to see new stuff on Amie after the dry last couple of weeks!
Craig
@amclark2 - When you said mainstream records, I thought you meant mainstream, not Mainstream...
On the Blue Foundation, the track was "Eyes on Fire" and it is one of maybe two or three songs that have ever been on that show that I had to look into because I liked it and it was unknown to me. I wish my work computer had more than just a lousy sound card in it, because I can't remember the first thing about how the song actually sounded.
Craig
I did add Matt & Kim's 2008 album.
Craig
I still have about $12.00 but am passing on a lot of stuff I might like anyway. May have to cash in some RECs I have outstanding.
Craig
Amie Street may have underestimated the site traffic this would generate. The website appears to be farked.
EDIT: Seems to be back up now.
Craig
This is my very first emuser post.
Vanessa Mae - The Violon Player
- Classical pop with excellent violin. (still cheap)
Holy carp - I can't get anything to go through. It takes 5 minutes and then I get a "Cannot process order". Maybe they should stop dumping everything and fix their freakin' site.
I bet there will be a lot of people pissed off because they thought they bought complete albums but didn't...
There are about 20 new albums a minute right now, and most are starting at 15 cents a track. I haven't been able to snag much of anything for free, I thought I had the Jim Lauderdale album, but by the time the java app popped up it was 15 cents. Several times I bought a track at 15 cents and tried to rec it, and it was already up to 29 cents. I did get a couple of Gov't Mule cheap, along with Louden Wainwright III's double album and a couple of Patti Griffen's I was missing.
in other news, by F5 key is worn out now.
Craig
RED Distribution - Sony's Distribution arm - interestingly, some of these labels (like Megaforce and Relapse) pulled out of emu before the Sony drop.
Still some good deals going on, but it was real frustrating for awhile. They're still fixing all of the partial albums that were put up earlier. Lots of Cirque du Soleil soundtracks and Southern Lord releases in particular were only 1 track this morning and now appear complete.
The HypeBot Article seemed to say that it was added at 15 cents, and, I would add from my observation, the price doubles pretty fast. Most are 25-30 cents within a few minutes, so no adding a rec for something that might go to 50 or 60 cents. I doubt many of these things will go beyond 40 cents -- at that point it is still cheaper than eMusic, usually higher bitrates although I can't really compare files.
IMHO, AmieStreet just took a giant step at taking eMusic's lost business.