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The Harvard Coop is currently selling all CBS and Polygram CDs for $12.99.

Also, most of the top 26 CDs are $12.99 to $13.99.  A few CDs are even less.

/john

    I thought we might use this note as a depository for general notices
of CD sales.  (I have been using #499, but the base note title was misleading.)

This weeks specials:

	Lechemere: 20% off all Jazz CDs.
	Strawberries: discounts on Epic and CBS CDs, starting at $12.99.

    I received a special offer in the mail today from Concord records, 
which I think is probably available to anyone who requests it. 
Through Christmas day, Concord is accepting mail orders at the 
following special rates (they take checks, Visa, and Mastercard):

	# of CD's			Postage&
	in order	CD price	Handling
	________	______________	____________
    	 1		$ 12.00		$2.00
	 5		$ 55.00		$3.00
	10		$100.00		$4.00

A catalog and order form(s) may be obtained from:

	Concord Records
	P.O. Box 845
	Concord, CA 95422

	(415) 682-6770 [Phone orders accepted]

Some of the artists on the Concord label are listed below. 

	Airto		Laurindo Almeida	Ed Bickert
	Art Blakey &JM	Dave Brubeck		Charlie Byrd
	Ron Carter	Stan Getz		Jim Hall
	Tania Maria	Carmen McRae		George Shearing
	Cal Tjader	Flora Purim	      	L.A. 4

-Rem
    

    
    
    	Currently all CD's made by CBS, are 12.99 at Recordtown at the
    	new Pheasant Lane Mall.  That includes, 16.99, 15.99...etc...
    	It implies only to single CD's.
    
    			Mike
    

I didn't see any ads in the Sunday Globe for Lechemere's usual weekly
CD discounts, but I did drop in to the Pheasant Lane mall store and
found the following specials:

	20 % off (mostly $12.88) on all CDs from a new company called
		Private Music.  (They are stocked in the same area as
		Windham Hill.)  The only name I recognized was Leo
		Kottke (his new album is "A Shout Towards Noon".)
		Other names on this label are: Eddie Johnson, Yanni,
		Etosha, Lucia Hwong, Patrick O'Hearn, Jerry Goodman.
	20% off on selected new releases, including the latest from:
		Whitney Houston, Boston, Daryl Hall, Cindi Lauper, Madonna,
		Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Moody Blues...

    I got a coupon in the mail from Strawberries for $2 off of CBS and
    Polygram disks.  The flyer said to "preferred customer".  When I went
    to Strawberries to cash it in, I found out that these disks were priced
    at $2 off anyway.  So much for preferred customer (the coupon was not
    good on items already on sale). 

    re: .5
    
    That's Eddie Jobson, not Eddie Johnson.
    
    Jeff
    

    This week's special at Lechmere: 20% off all Christmas CDs.

    Re .8
    
    Not ALL Christmas CD's - just six selected ones.
    

    Which 6 Christmas CD's?
    

	I can only remember 2 of them:

		Manheim Steamroller's Xmas 
		Soundtrack from Nutcracker

	In the Nashua store, they are "hidden" in the classical albums
	racks.

    CDs on sale at Lechmere this week: $11.99 for the latest releases
	from Billy Joel, Police, Duran Duran, Pretenders, Steve Winwood,
	'til Tuesday, Billy Ocean, Kansas, Bruce Hornsby, and Van Halen.

I didn't think the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas disk was on sale.

But another one that WAS is "Christmas with Kiri", with Kiri Te
Kanewa singing various songs of the season.  Unlike her "Blue Skies",
"West Side Story", and "South Pacific" albums, she uses her operatic
voice on this one, and the results are definitely not what you are used to
hearing on a Christmas album. Some non-traditional arrangements, too.

Since the sale is over by now, it's not worth much to mention this, but I
just thought I'd set the record straight:  that 20% off Christmas CDs at
Lechmere did apply to ALL Christmas CDs.  I bought two that weren't on the
list on the sign, and got the discount.  Also, the Christmas CDs aren't
"buried" in with the Classical CDs.  There is a separate section for
classical-type Christmas CDs (Mannheim Steamroller is in there, too) in
the Classical area of the store, and there is also a section for
popular-type Christmas CDs (Christmas with the Oak Ridge Boys, etc.) near
the Rock area of the store. 

Oh, and the Mannheim Steamroller Christmas disc WAS on sale.  Now you can
sleep nights, knowing all this.  :-)
	
							-- Nina

    This week's special at Lechmere: 20% off ALL CDs.

    It looks like I should have waited to by my Mannheim Steamroller
    Christmas album.  I bought it at Strawberries a couple of weeks
    ago for $16.99 and was EXTREMELY disappointed to find out that it
    only had 33 minutes of music on it.  For the extra $2 I was expecting
    some extra CD time.
    

    
    Mannheim seems to like to do that.  fresh aire III had 33 min, also.
    
    

    Lechemere has 20% off all Classical CDs this week.
    
    Glenn

    The Prelude in Colorado Springs is having a 20% off sale on selected
    CD's this month (February).

   This weeks special at Lechmere: 20% off Telarc, Polygram (DG, London,
	Philips, Mercury, Polydor, Verve, Emarcy, ECM...)

    20% of what?  Do they usually sell for ~15.00 which means ~$12.00,
    that's not bad!  Or is it 18.00 which brings them down to 14.50,
    that is bad!
    
    						??????
    						Bill

    re .21
    
    Most of the single discs I've seen at Lechmere usually sell for $15 -
    $17. Meaning you can get most stuff for between $12 - $13.60 (don't
    forget sales tax if you're not buying in New Hampster). That's not TOO
    bad. 

The Telarcs are $16.99 at Lechmere, with 20% off that makes them $13.59.
The Mercury, Polydor, RSO disks are typically $14.99 ($11.99).  I went to
Framingham on Sunday and people were running to the disk department once
the gate was rolled up.
	
					  Tim

	Almost all the sale discs I saw were $11.98.

	These were all Atlantic, Elektra, Warner Bros, Geffen,
	and about four other labels.

	Not a bad deal.  I even saw "Breifcase of Blues" on sale.

	Mike

    This week's special at Lechmere: 15% off all CDs.  (What happened to
the good old days of 20% off?!)

    
    Newberry Comics is selling ALL Polygram/Deutsche Gram/etc. CD's
    for $11.99.  I think this is thru the weekend.  It's at all of their
    stores.