Unfindable CD's

Cafe Society
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      • Where else can you look for CD’s if Amazon doesn’t have any listing?
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Check out All Music Guide to see if it’s in print. They will usually have a “buy now” link.

Also, there’s always Ebay.

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      • All Music Guide refers me to Barnes and Noble, but he actual link is no longer active. B & N no longer has any listing for it (group=Siren, release=All Is Forgiven, Date+label=1989, Mercury/Polygram).
  • I have a “good” cassette tape. I already looked around on Kazaa. There’s one CD and one LP for sale on Ebay, but it reeks so much of scams…(sigh)
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Try ordering from abroad - e.g:
[ul][li]http://www.hmv.co.uk/[/li][li]http://www.towerrecords.com/[/li][*]http://www.cdwow.com/[/ul]

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Try half.com, too. If the CD you’re looking for isn’t currently available you can put it on your “wish list” and you’ll get an e-mail if one turns up.

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www.cdnow.com

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Here’s a few from GEMM.com

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What are you looking for specifically?

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I’m pretty sure that Amazon and CD Now have the same catalogue now, so if it isn’t on Amazon, it isn’t on CD Now either.

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I find that really disappointing, since the CDNOW site was incredibly helpful when it came to finding out who sang a song and so on. They merged with Amazon on Dec 4th, IICR.

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I want Emma Shapplin, Opera Trance. This is ideal music: the steady heavy beat of Eurodisco or what they now call dance music I guess, along with this great opera voice. Also, why don’t they make more dance music like this, combining classical with dance synthesizers weird sounds, heavy beat, etc.? Something for everybody except rap lovers, which I hate rap music.

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For Siren, theres no listing on Tower records.com. I saw the album on yahoo shopping, but it wasn’t in stock. I did some googling an came up with squat. I would try some places that rhyme with “slimedryer”, if you know what I mean.

Thats a tough one, good luck.

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I found a difficult-to-find Shriekback CD at http://www.spun.com/

Looking at their website, they look like any other internet media place, but I think they deal in used stuff as well.

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There’s hardly better online resources than the links Mr. Blue Sky provided : Here’s Opera Trance at GEMM
If want to go into a store you or someone you know is going to be in S.F. or Berkeley, try Amoeba Records, one of the largest and best selections of all kinds of used CDs (and a lot of new ones too). In Berkeley you’ve also got Rasputin’s, another big used record store, just up the street. They don’t mail order, however.
At the SF one I’ve found two copies of a CD that’s been out of print for almost 10 years, of which relatively few were made by a local band.

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Ebay’s always been my best bet for out-of-print CD’s. It’s where I got my scores Name of the Rose and Good Will Hunting (the score, not the compilation soundtrack), both pretty hard to find items. I’ve seen lots of really good hard-to-find CD’s there, unfortunately the prices sometimes get high on the really good ones.

Until recently, CDNow was my other best resource for rare/hard-to-find CD’s, but I must agree with typhoon that, since Amazon took CDNow over, they’re no longer as valuable a resource as they once were. The best features of CDNow – the vast catalog, the song samples, and the extensive artist research and cross-referencing – have seemingly gone by the wayside in favor of Amazon’s lists and recommendations. sigh

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It seems the actual group name is “Trance Opera”. They were much more popular in Europe than the U.S. and the only release here was the one you mentioned “Spente la Stelle - Opera Trance” which was released as a single and EP. GEMM is a great source for hard-to-find CDs. but you might also try ordering it direct from Europe from such web sites as German Music Express (which has at least 5 CDs by this group) or www.cdconnection.com (which has 3 CDs).

www.cdeurope.com is also a good source, but their website is temporarily down for repairs.