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Lately for book-acquisition I have been using the nifty site Booko which attempts to solve Australia's book price problem by comparing online retailers from around the world (including shipping and currency conversion) to determine the cheapest source for any given book. It has not been perfect so far, as I have not found anywhere willing to sell me Volume Five of Excel Saga which is quite disappointing.
But, quite nifty-seeming over all, so I am wondering if anyone knows of a similar site or tool for purchasing music. Failing that, if people know a variety of music stores which could be checked out in search of music, that would also be helpful. The names of music-selling places I know currently are: HMV, Sanity, iTunes (foreign currency), and Amazon (also foreign currency).
At this moment I have not searched on my own for such, and am about to - with intent to report back on findings later. I quite like learning and sharing as a social activity though, so want to also approach the wisdom of others.
Edit: Seems Amazon does not do music downloads to Australia; I assume hardcopies can still be ordered from the .com, .co.uk or .ca stores though. So far it looks like most of the online music vendors I've heard of, except Apple, do not sell in Australia. Sometimes I continue to be surprised how behind Europe and North America Australia is in this whole online thing - it is one thing I do look forward to about being in the US, not being geographically locked out of most of the cool stuff I hear about.
Others I've heard of mostly because they are integrated with music players I use include 7digital, Jamendo and Magnatune, which seem worth a look for availability but apart from 7digital seem unlikely to have other than indie artists (which I'd be interested in, but there are also more famous signed artists I'd want to purchase albums of also, making that maybe not a complete solution). But I shall investigate directly.
Mostly am using Wikipedia's comparison page as a reference, as apart from the Invisible Hand extension I have yet to find a tool which may be helpful in the way Booko is.
But, quite nifty-seeming over all, so I am wondering if anyone knows of a similar site or tool for purchasing music. Failing that, if people know a variety of music stores which could be checked out in search of music, that would also be helpful. The names of music-selling places I know currently are: HMV, Sanity, iTunes (foreign currency), and Amazon (also foreign currency).
At this moment I have not searched on my own for such, and am about to - with intent to report back on findings later. I quite like learning and sharing as a social activity though, so want to also approach the wisdom of others.
Edit: Seems Amazon does not do music downloads to Australia; I assume hardcopies can still be ordered from the .com, .co.uk or .ca stores though. So far it looks like most of the online music vendors I've heard of, except Apple, do not sell in Australia. Sometimes I continue to be surprised how behind Europe and North America Australia is in this whole online thing - it is one thing I do look forward to about being in the US, not being geographically locked out of most of the cool stuff I hear about.
Others I've heard of mostly because they are integrated with music players I use include 7digital, Jamendo and Magnatune, which seem worth a look for availability but apart from 7digital seem unlikely to have other than indie artists (which I'd be interested in, but there are also more famous signed artists I'd want to purchase albums of also, making that maybe not a complete solution). But I shall investigate directly.
Mostly am using Wikipedia's comparison page as a reference, as apart from the Invisible Hand extension I have yet to find a tool which may be helpful in the way Booko is.
