Damned import prices!!!

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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000094AMC/qid=1077534083/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_8/002-7799271-0276031?v=glance&s=music

Either that's the greatest fucking b-side in the history of music or I missed the start of a trade war between the US and Canada.

And what exactly is the funniest line on that page?

Is it:

a) 10 used & new from $14.49

b) Buy this album with Gran Turismo ~ The Cardigans today! Buy Together Today: $269.48

c) ...& This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping.

― turkey (turkey), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a very, very good B-side, though.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 23 February 2004 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

You can get the b-side AND ANOTHER bonus track for quite a few bucks cheaper:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008OX4R/qid=1077563312/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8453699-9681702?v=glance&s=music

Does this mean that the other bonus track is a total dud?! I mean, how could it devalue the cd as much as this?

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn record companies! No wonder people are "sharing" these "mp3" files.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

The dollar=pound exchange rate is pretty fucking terrible at the moment.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(although it's a joke & all) I never buy imports from US distributors. Go straight to the originating country.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008OX4R/ref=sr_aps_music_1_1/202-7423373-6067063

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Hold Me is only 36 seconds long. If There's A Chance is excellent though.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a full-length version of Hold Me that runs for about 4 minutes though - and it's astoundingly good - it would have been about the second or third best track on the album if it had been included. It's even better than If There's A Chance and that IS excellent.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 23 February 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Yup. Thanks to our national twee twade policies, there are no customs, duties, tariffs, etc., on normal-sized purchases. (And U.S. states are constitutionally prohibited from charging sales tax on international transactions.)

― $1.90=£1.00, Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

b) is the funniest.
... just think, I can get one album for $255, but if I get two albums, it's $270. That's $135 per album, which means I've saved $120 on the price of the import! That's like half off! What a great deal!!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

And I thought spending 60 quid on a couple of Trattoria compilations via Amazon UK was mentalism...

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

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