Thirty-One Quid?!?!?!?!?

[blufive]

Earlier this week, I had a bit of time to kill at Manchester Piccadilly station. So I went and browsed the racks in the small HMV store in the station concourse, where I found a copy of The Wall on CD, retailing for the ludicrous sum of £31.

I had to triple-check to make sure I hadn't misread it. OK, it's a double album, so I expect the price to be a bit above average, but that's just taking the piss.

Comments

31 quid?

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

It's 14.99 delivered from play.com

And so's the SACD version (Live in Berlin version)

While the DVDs are only 10.99 each!

Re: 31 quid?

[blufive.livejournal.com]

Eminently more reasonable. I have it already, I was just totally croggled by the price they were asking...

[numbat.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me of an incident a few years ago when I was having a look through a chain cd store. In the independant rack was a single going for the impressive sum of $16. I queried the gnome behind the counter who informed me that because it was independant they couldn't sell it for less that $16, even though it only had 4 tracks on it. I laughed and left the cd on the counter, explaining that the non-chain cd store half an hour away had already sold me this for $8. The gnome didn't even blink. I don't think gnomes understand any verbal exchange which does end in the other party offering them money.