# HELP! Looking for UK Sheetmusic stores. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863 "2002-10-11T19:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863/1 "2002-10-11T19:42:14Z")
First off, thanks for opening the thread. I’m a huge sheet music junkie. I’ve got a fair sized collection and it just won’t stop growing. So what happened is I was looking for sheetmusic on the internet, doing my rounds, and found a website that had a lot of the sheetmusic I wanted and some stuff I didn’t know I wanted until right now. (Y’know how that goes?). Well, it turns out that a majority of the songbooks/sheet music I wanted to order wasn’t in stock (I’m 95% positive it’s out of print, so it won’t be coming back in stock). Some of the sites I’ve tried have been: [Music exchange](http://www.music-exchange.co.uk) which is where I found most of the OOP stuff [Musicroom](http://www.musicroom.com) [ebay](http://www.ebay.com) and [bookfinder](http://www.bookfinder.com) Anybody have any other good options for what I’m looking for? (In case you’re curious or if this helps, here were some of the titles I’m looking for that were out of stock: Tom Waits -Anthology 1986-2000 Tom Waits -Anthology 1973-1982 Hothouse Flowers -Song From the Rain Hothouse Flowers- People Supergrass- I Should Coco Midnight Oil -Diesel and Dust Wilco -Being There Kate Bush-Complete) Thanks, josh ---
**Author:** ![partly\_warmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@partly\_warmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partly_warmer)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863/2 "2002-10-11T20:00:34Z")
Uh, last time I was there, Foyles of London had sheet music. That was quite awhile ago. Here in the San Fran Bay Area it’s Byron Hoyt. And the reason I answered at all was to provide the perhaps unknown information that classical sheet music (at least) is now available on CD from CD Sheet Music ([www.cdsheetmusic.com](http://www.cdsheetmusic.com)). One CD with 1000 pages of music! Great! ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863/3 "2002-10-11T21:06:10Z")
[Foyles still have a music department](http://128.241.139.143/html/music.html). ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863/4 "2002-10-11T22:11:30Z")
Thanks for the links and info about Foyles…I did find a couple of the books I was looking for there. Unfortunately, when I went to checkout, the $28 (actually pounds, but I’m not sure if the board would like that symbol) had $279.00 in shipping charges. I’m not sure why it’d be that expensive and emailed Foyles about it too… Any other suggestions? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863/5 "2002-10-11T22:34:28Z")
never mind, musta been a glitch, i got the shipping down to a reasonable 9.50 pounds. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-looking-for-uk-sheetmusic-stores/131863/6 "2002-10-11T23:00:58Z")
You’re welcome. And you probably could’ve got it hand-delivered for £279.