I was at HMV yesterday killing some time, and lucky for me I didn’t walk out of the store with my wallet a few hundred $ lighter! I still enjoy browsing HMV, even though their CD section is dwindling, now sharing space with DVDs (blu-ray, HD and the oldie variety), books, and video games. I don’t typically buy anything there anymore because it’s usually cheaper to buy online.

Ok side track. I used to do used CD crawls, but I haven’t been wasting time downtown in awhile so that event has gone the way of acne. But one night I was surfing randomly, and noticed that Amazon.ca’s used selection is sometimes reasonably cheap, even with the extra $3.50 added on for shipping. I bought Robyn’s self-titled, Kylie’s X and Fergie’s The Duchess for about $6 shipped to my door concierge. Here’s one of my faves, Kylie’s All I See

Anyways, I spent a lot of time in HMV because they had a killer deal. Buy 2 featured CDs and get a $15 iTunes gift card. I understand that they want to get luddites used to buying music online, but this deal is ridiculous. I can buy the latest CDs by Franz Ferdinand, Pink, Britney Spears, or Beyonce at $10 each and get 75% back.

There were a lot of other good deals; some recent CDs I’m interested in for 2/$20 and a lot of new greatest hits packages for only $8. At $8 a CD and with an increased disposible income, these CDs are in my impulse buy range. Now it’s only willpower and unwillingness to accumulate stuff that keeps my collection in check.

I ended up with (only) 3 CDs. Lenka’s self-titled, MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular, and Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You. The first two were for the deal, and I’ve been looking to buy Lenka anyways. I don’t think MGMT was a good deal, but there weren’t any other CDs that I felt were worth buying since I had already been listening to most of them. I picked up Lily Allen because it was an awesome CD and I was just waiting for it to hit $10. Here’s MGMT’s Kids

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: CDs, itunes, music, shopping