Handel Box Set & Other Musical Bargains

[cronus]

Don't know if it is a loss leader for Box Sets on mp3 but I bought 300 tracks, virtually all good to very good quality, and for only seven quid. Nice price that. Wont last I guess once it becomes known I'd guess? - Amazon tends to sell cheap with mp3s and then up its prices once something takes off. Anyone else got bargains that are legal?

[HomerJay]

Are they ancient recordings? Out of copyright and cheap as chips?

Handel hasn't released any new stuff for years, just lazy really.

[klr]

A few years ago, I bought a 40-disc set of classical music for just 10 Euro. When I ran the discs through my MP3 ripping software, it reported that some of the discs were classic Apollo recordings - not too shabby at all.

With composer copyright having long since expired* for most classical music, it tends to be cheap.

*Along with most of the composers.

[Hermit]

Looking for some Brass music by Gabrieli on a music site and could not find any. The search terms, however, came up with an unabridged Deutsche Grammophon recording of Handel's Messiah (The Foundling Hospital Version of 1754, performed by the Gabriely Consort & Players, conducted by Paul McCreesh and played on "authentic" instruments) on two CDs. The listed price was $0.00. I ordered one copy. As punishment for taking advantage of its mistake the site took me off its email list for several months. I revenged myself by not buying anything else from it ever since. Well, I call it revenge, but in reality, other vendors had sprung up around that time which had a greater range of offerings averaging at better prices.

[klr]

Looking for some Brass music by Gabrieli on a music site and could not find any. The search terms, however, came up with an unabridged Deutsche Grammophon recording of Handel's Messiah (The Foundling Hospital Version of 1754, performed by the Gabriely Consort & Players, conducted by Paul McCreesh and played on "authentic" instruments) on two CDs. The listed price was $0.00. I ordered one copy. As punishment for taking advantage of its mistake the site took me off its email list for several months. I revenged myself by not buying anything else from it ever since. Well, I call it revenge, but in reality, other vendors had sprung up around that time which had a greater range of offerings averaging at better prices.

The price was 0? So you just paid for the shipping? Nice trick.

Anyway, it's the store's fault for doing something that dumb.

[Hermit]

Looking for some Brass music by Gabrieli on a music site and could not find any. The search terms, however, came up with an unabridged Deutsche Grammophon recording of Handel's Messiah (The Foundling Hospital Version of 1754, performed by the Gabriely Consort & Players, conducted by Paul McCreesh and played on "authentic" instruments) on two CDs. The listed price was $0.00. I ordered one copy. As punishment for taking advantage of its mistake the site took me off its email list for several months. I revenged myself by not buying anything else from it ever since. Well, I call it revenge, but in reality, other vendors had sprung up around that time which had a greater range of offerings averaging at better prices.

The price was 0? So you just paid for the shipping? Nice trick.

Anyway, it's the store's fault for doing something that dumb.

The shipping was free. I did feel a bit uneasy about taking advantage of what was obviously a data-entry mistake by the company, but my conscience was somewhat salved by the fact that I only ordered one copy instead of a dozen (to pass on to family members and friends who also like that kind of music), that it was part of an order of several titles, and that I had already spent a hundred dollars, or two, with that company in the past.