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Title:	Welcome to the CD Notes Conference
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Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Mar 03 1989
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1517
Total number of notes:	13349

1143.0. "Where to find Imports-by-the-ton?" by CTHULU::YERAZUNIS (Hiding from the Turing Police) Wed Apr 06 1988 12:03

    There are several import CDs that I've been looking for, however
    I've yet to find a store in this area (495 x Mass Pike) that even
    admits that an import exists.
    	
    Can anyone recommend a store that has a good import selection, or
    even better, know of a store willing to *order* an import?
    	                         
    [how does one "order" an import, anyway?]
    
    The CD's I'm particularly interested in are (if anyone can help)
    	
    	Walter Carlos' Music for A Clockwork Orange (British)
    	Project A-ko (artist unknown)               (japanese)
    	Tonto's Expanding Headband (Cecil and Margoleff) (unknown)
                                                                  
    Thanks,
    	-Bill

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1143.1		SARAH::P_DAVIS	Peter Davis	`Wed Apr 06 1988 13:04`	13
	Good question. I'd like to know too. BCD (Harvard Square and Newbury St.) used to have lots of obscure and interesting imports, but I haven't been impressed lately. I think the increase of U.S.-released titles, and general devaluation of the dollar overseas have dampened the market for imports here. Still, you might check them out, particular for pop/rock material. Also, you might be able to do mail order with International Book & Record in New York, or with Seranade Records in Washington, D.C. Both of these places carry a fair number of imports. -pd
1143.2	Try Riff Raff	AQUA::ROST	Bimbo, Limbo, Spam	`Wed Apr 06 1988 16:07`	6
	Riff-Raff in Worcester says they will seek out imports for you. There's a note on them somewhere in this notesfile. I don't know if their number is listed. They are on Park Ave.
1143.3		AKOV11::BOYAJIAN	Spring forward, fall over	`Wed Apr 06 1988 23:44`	4
	Rockit Records in Nashua gets a reasonable stream of imports in, but I don't think they'll special-order any. --- jerry
1143.4	Newbury for rock, Tower for classical	BAVIKI::GOOD	Michael Good	`Thu Apr 07 1988 11:25`	6
	For imported rock CD's, the best I've seen recently is the Newbury Comics store (in Harvard Square, but I'm pretty sure there's a branch out west closer to you). For classical CD's Tower Records in Boston has a wonderful selection of imports - almost all these obscure labels I saw reviewed in Fanfare are now available to me, and some other stores are adding them as well to keep up.