# Where do you buy music?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 13, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-buy-music/148212 "2003-01-13T00:15:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![koawala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@koawala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koawala)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-buy-music/148212/1 "2003-01-13T00:15:37Z")

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Where do you buy music online? Why do you buy from them- price, availability, selection, another reason? Good stories about purchases, bad stories about purchases.

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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-buy-music/148212/2 "2003-01-13T03:30:02Z")

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To buy stuff used and/or cheap, I go to [www.half.com](http://www.half.com), where I also sell stuff. It’s an eBay site, but with fixed prices. No bad experiences to date.

[www.hmv.com](http://www.hmv.com) is also very nice; very quick service and good packaging.

[www.djangos.com](http://www.djangos.com) is also quite good, in my estimation.

There’s always Amazon if you need to fall back on something.

I honestly can say I have had no problems with any of the above.

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**Author:** ![GCU\_Stout\_Heart](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gcu_stout_heart/32/3032_2.png) [@GCU\_Stout\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GCU_Stout_Heart)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-you-buy-music/148212/3 "2003-01-16T20:21:42Z")

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I buy on eBay (the UK site, can’t vouch for any others) and have only had one non-appearance, when the daft girl who was selling discovered the CD box was empty and couldn’t find the CD. She refunded me, though. Note, I tend to buy older stuff, not chart music, and I’m patient enough to wait for a CD to turn up.

If I can’t be bothered to wait for something to turn up on eBay I use the second-hand sellers listing on [www.amazon.co.uk](http://www.amazon.co.uk) - they usually undercut the new price and they’re damn fast at delivery, I think Amazon must be quite strict with them.

For new CDs (usually gifts, I’m a complete skinflint!) I use [www.CDWOW.com](http://www.CDWOW.com) , they have most stuff at £8.99 including delivery (that’s probably not cheap elsewhere, but here in the UK you’re looking at £13.99 for a chart CD in HMV!)