The "Recommend me some cheap music" thread

[seany t]

This is an idea I've 'borrowed' off of another forum, but its a great idea. Basically, you search Amazon marketplace (UK) for music you would recommend to other folks selling at ludicrously low prices (less than £5).

Now unlike that forum, everyone's taste on here is going to be hugely eclectic / questionable, so maybe it'd be worth posting a small piece about the kind of music it's comparable to.

I'll give you a starting example:

Orbital - Work (1989 - 2002)
£1.96 (+ £1.24 postage)

Essentially a best of one of the UK's pioneering dance acts from the 90's. They kick-started rave with "Chime", gave us the genre-transcending "The Box" and along the way remixed the "Dr Who theme" (not on here it'd seem?) and rivaled The Prodigy's evilness with "Satan". If you liked earlier Underworld tracks, or wanted to take a punt on a truly ground-breaking electronic duo this is a great place to start for under £3.50.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...1_olp_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1218625339&sr=1-7

I've been doing this now on Drownedinsound for a year on and off, and for about £30 have now got into a dozen or so bands I'd never heard of previously. And it only takes 5 minutes...

 

[Pubey]

i've done it quite a bit too off DiS, will keep my eyes open for some bargains!

 

[Yer Blues]

the colours between's new demo is free so i hear...

 

[Mad Cyril]

I have a couple of CDs I have purchased from various Patagonian pan pipe acts in the high street which I sometimes listen to at work to release the tension.

I think the most expensive one was a fiver.

There is also a native American indian duo which are worth a listen but I didn't have time to purchase their offering.

 

[Streaky]

get yourself on to www.legalsounds.com - its very good and only $0.09 a song

 

[derek duvall]

go onto mp3fiesta. It has about 2 million songs and is a £1 per album.

 

[Pubey]

This is an idea I've 'borrowed' off of another forum, but its a great idea. Basically, you search Amazon marketplace (UK) for music you would recommend to other folks selling at ludicrously low prices (less than £5).

Now unlike that forum, everyone's taste on here is going to be hugely eclectic / questionable, so maybe it'd be worth posting a small piece about the kind of music it's comparable to.

I'll give you a starting example:

Orbital - Work (1989 - 2002)
£1.96 (+ £1.24 postage)

Essentially a best of one of the UK's pioneering dance acts from the 90's. They kick-started rave with "Chime", gave us the genre-transcending "The Box" and along the way remixed the "Dr Who theme" (not on here it'd seem?) and rivaled The Prodigy's evilness with "Satan". If you liked earlier Underworld tracks, or wanted to take a punt on a truly ground-breaking electronic duo this is a great place to start for under £3.50.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...1_olp_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1218625339&sr=1-7

I've been doing this now on Drownedinsound for a year on and off, and for about £30 have now got into a dozen or so bands I'd never heard of previously. And it only takes 5 minutes...

do you have a link for the DiS thread cos i can't find it and the search is rubbish

 

[seany t]

do you have a link for the DiS thread cos i can't find it and the search is rubbish

Yeah I always just use google. Their search is crap. This is the most recent one:

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3832946

 

[seany t]

Some more suggestions:

The best album by the best heavy rock band on the planet, Queens of the stone age, featuring Dave Grohl doing what he does best and beating the living crap out of a drum kit. "Songs for the deaf" - yours for about £4:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...1_olp_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219336011&sr=1-1

Great Scottish band who recently called it a day, Arab Strap. Very pioneering act from the 90's who featured just a guitarist and a mumbling vocalist / speaker. The music charts their journeys through life, so you get under-age drinking, sex scandals, drunken nights out etc through to the love of their lives. This album was one of their more downbeat offerings, but for £3 is a great entry into their world:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-li...1_olp_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219336396&sr=1-6

 

[* ORM *]

am I allowed to post up free links of questionable legality?

 

[Desert Shrimper]

am I allowed to post up free links of questionable legality?

Yes but Matt the Shrimp will tell you off later - it's your funeral pal....

 

[Hotman]

Yes but Matt the Shrimp will tell you off later - it's your funeral pal....

It'll probably read like this:

Orm,

I have noted a reference you have made in the "Recommend me some cheap music" thread to you recommending "xxxxxxxxx.com"

There seems little doubt to me that your post could be interpreted as a suggestion to steal - that, somehow, stealing (especially music) is funny.

Please be warned: we will not tolerate stealing on ShrimperZone.com, and your post seems to be sailing extraordinarily close to it. Any further repetition of posts of this nature will result in a one-month ban from ShrimperZone.com. This PM constitutes your formal written warning as to your future conduct.

Yours sincerely,
on behalf of the owners of
ShrimperZone.com Limited

Matt




:)

 

[Pubey]

Yeah I always just use google. Their search is crap. This is the most recent one:

http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3832946

nice one seany. i've just ordered that Orbital one, even though ive got the green and brown albums... i might have to wait until pay day before having another session. marketplace is superb for books too (i can't understand why people would still buy from the actual amazon shop!)

 

[please delete my account]

I can recommend some dirt cheap music..
My band, the Tarquin Fauntleroy Experience is currently hawking demos of a potential new album to anyone who looks gullible.
It's a hardcore techno/ jazz funk/ Baroque/ Power Ballad fusion that will take the world by storm, trust me..
Our songs include Minge Benefits, Numpty Dumpty, I'm Gonna **** You Up and Swollen Glans.

The cover is an homage to Who's Next but instead of a urine stained lump of concrete, we're all standing rather proudly near some freshly laid, steaming faeces.

So, how about you send me, say, five sovs and I'll see what I can do..