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I've been looking for a place to find sort of obscure (for the American audience, at least) releases online. Specifically, I'm looking for Michael Mayer's Fabric 13 and Supersilent 6. I can't really seem to find them anywhere online for less than $30 and St. Louis record stores don't carry either of them.

So, anyone have any suggestions for places to buy music online? Am I just looking in the wrong places (eBay, Amazon, etc) or am I just SOL?

― stephen morris, Sunday, 18 January 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Try Insound and Forced Exposure.

Good luck.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 18 January 2004 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Try www.bentcrayon.com or forcedexposure.com They have both been great for me and they carry both those titles I believe.

― tipustiger, Sunday, 18 January 2004 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Insound (www.insound.com) stocks a lot of obscure releases. They show one Supersilent CD for $17, temp. out-of-stock.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 18 January 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ear/rational is out of stock on both right now but they are listed at $20 and $14.50 respectively. write dave as he is real easy to deal with and he may be able to order them for you.

― william (william), Sunday, 18 January 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Half.com has Fabric 13 available, for $20.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 18 January 2004 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

When all else fails, try www.gemm.com.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 18 January 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Forced Exposure is great.

I thought Bent Crayon was a pain in the ass to order through, maybe they have improved, I haven't used them after the one time.

― earlnash, Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for all the feedback.

Forced Exposure looks to be exactly what I was looking for. Insound seems to be really nice as well.

As a follow up question, where's the cheapest place to order not so obscure music online? Should I stick to the big'ns like Amazon/eBay/Half.com?

― stephen morris, Sunday, 18 January 2004 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

darla and tonevendor are easy to deal with.

― william (william), Monday, 19 January 2004 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

How long before buying CDs in shops becomes something we do "for old time's sake"?

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 19 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It feels like that now.

I like Darla too. Dusty Groove is the greatest record store in the world if you're into Soul/Jazz/Funk/Hip-Hop/Lounge/Reggae/French/Soundtracks, I visit their site everyday and think I've died and gone to heaven. Shipping's a tad pricey though.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Monday, 19 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

tip: Cheap stuff mainstream, try http://www.hmv.com.au Australia, or http://www.sanity.com.au

Give it a look/see...

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 January 2004 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

My favorite online stores are Forced Exposure, Other Music and Aquarius Records. For hip hop 12"'s try Sandbox Automatic. And I still enjoy Amazon.

― scott m (mcd), Monday, 19 January 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

So am I right in thinking that FE only charges $4.50 for the entire shipment, and not per item? Their checkout interface only shows the subtotal that excludes shipping.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Rough Trade can go fuck itself. How difficult is it to have web server running more than 40 hours a week? does it demand cigarette breaks too?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

grrrr

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

FE = Forced Exposure

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i know, my rant is completely separate

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Monday, 21 February 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, with FE it's $4.50 per order shipping, whether you are order 2 CDs or 20.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 21 February 2005 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

a LOT of those fabric CD's can be purchased as promos.

I got Fabric 13 for £2.99 (in card sleeve) i won't say where because it's probably skirting legality in some places and I wouldn't want to get anyone in trouble. use the googleforce.

― itchy bits, Monday, 21 February 2005 02:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Fabric 13 for £6.99 from actionrecords.co.uk before Christmas. I don't know if it's still the same price, but mine is the metal case version.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, and it's worth noting that actionrecords subtracts the VAT from the price, so it was actually about 6 pds (or something like that).

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 21 February 2005 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

any thoughts on www.insound.com?

reliable?

― djh, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:51 (sixteen years ago)

They've been around forever, haven't they? I'm sure they're reliable. Not sure why you'd order from them though. They've never seem to have anything particularly cheap and/or rare to me.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

They appear to have a CD that I can't find anywhere else. Am in the UK, so never heard of them before ...

― djh, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 21:05 (sixteen years ago)

Oh yeah they were one of PFork's original sponsors (used to have Buy links on the site IIRC.) I'd go for it if it's unfindable anywhere else.

― it's like i have a couple worked up orc dicks under my arms (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 21:07 (sixteen years ago)

Insound used to have unique tour CDs. I have a Versus and, I think, John Vanderslice tour EP from them. Their forthcoming release list is useful.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 21:14 (sixteen years ago)

I have the Rapture one. They were like the first indie-rock webstore and for a while were super influential.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

For US stuff (indie/punk vinyl mainly) I have used Vinyl Collective http://www.vinylcollective.com/ - excellent service & quick dispatch. Postage ain't cheap (to NZ anyway, tho this isn't a specific problem with VC) but I can still land LPs for cheaper than I can get them here in the shops.

For UK vinyl I use Norman records http://www.normanrecords.com - always good service & quick dispatch.

― Bill E, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:08 (sixteen years ago)

One I use, and can highly recommend, that hasn't been mentioned is Second Layer: http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/

― krakow, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

if you're looking for used stuff (and new too, i suppose), reckless records in chicago is very cheap, stock constantly turns over (1,000s of new items per day, sometimes), and shipping is $6 whether you are ordering 10 or 100 things. (i think it's a bit cheaper if you're only ordering 2 or 3.) their inference is pretty old school but i enjoy that. and you can search by genre or format, or to see what's come in, in the past 1, 2, 3, or 10 (etc.) days.

www.reckless.com

― amateurist, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

i order from them like once every one or two weeks.

― amateurist, Tuesday, 11 August 2009 22:34 (sixteen years ago)

thanks for answers re insound.

― djh, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 20:41 (sixteen years ago)

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