Cheapo albums in Tesco

[Sid and Coke]

I popped into my local Tesco store last night and noticed that they had quite a few CD albums at almost give away prices. The ones that i noticed were on the Sony/BMG label and part of the Music made simple series were you get two differnt albums in a simple cardboard sleeve

There were quite a few being knocked out at £4 each, not sure whether this is just my local Tesco but might be worth having a little mooch around next time you are helping 'er ( or him ) indoors with the shopping

Listening to the first two Kings of Leon albums at the mo , not bad for a couple of quid each..

 

[Mole Man]

Sorry Sid but my social position won't permit me to shop at Tesco (joking)!

Seriously though I do happen to think that this particular retailer has done an awful lot of damage to the agricultural, commercial and social fabric of these British Isles (including independent record shops). Why not try shopping at Waitrose instead? A far nicer exerience all round and a much better class of customer (and also part of the fab John Lewis Partnership with their associated values of business through British socialist values).

Best regards,
Mole Man

 

[prowla]

I might check them out.
I prefer the cardboard sleeve "mini-album" CD packs.

 

[smegger68]

Interesting.

What is 'Carbon Neutral Entertainment'?

Anyone?

 

[timpy]

Downloads may be closer to Carbon Neutral? I'm off to wash my mouth out...

S&C,
I've seen them about in Tesco in Cardiff to? Are they the real deal - not as played by a monkey with pan pipes?

Cheers

 

[Sid and Coke]

Sorry Sid but my social position won't permit me to shop at Tesco (joking)!

Seriously though I do happen to think that this particular retailer has done an awful lot of damage to the agricultural, commercial and social fabric of these British Isles (including independent record shops). Why not try shopping at Waitrose instead? A far nicer exerience all round and a much better class of customer (and also part of the fab John Lewis Partnership with their associated values of business through British socialist values).

Best regards,
Mole Man

Hello mole man,

I have to drive directly past a 24 hour Tesco store with petrol station on my way home from work, i can't actually avoid it, so i always fill up with petrol there and occasionaly pop in to get a few things, especially in the wee small hours if i'm not busy at work and just waiting for our early bird to leave before i can knock off, like this morning ( I work for an Airline).

We do all of our proper shopping at Marks and Spencer (food) and Asda ( household essentials ). There are no Waitrose nearby...

Downloads may be closer to Carbon Neutral? I'm off to wash my mouth out...

S&C,
I've seen them about in Tesco in Cardiff to? Are they the real deal - not as played by a monkey with pan pipes?

Cheers

Yeah they are the proper job, original albums but in a cheapo recycled carboard sleeve. The first album certainly sounds like a proper album, not like one of them freebies you sometimes get with the sunday paper supplements, which i suspect might be copies of .mp3's .
Unlike proper Vinyl LP album covers, I very rarely bother trying to tug the booklets out of normal CD albums and then squint at the writing inside, so cardboard covers will do for me.

£4 give it a go and see for yourself.

 

[Nic Robinson]

Sorry Sid but my social position won't permit me to shop at Tesco (joking)!

Why not try shopping at Waitrose instead? A far nicer exerience all round and a much better class of customer (and also part of the fab John Lewis Partnership with their associated values of business through British socialist values).

Best regards,
Mole Man

Are they doing the same deal, then?

Cheers,

Nic.

 

[prowla]

I've just been to my local Tesco, and no sign of them.

 

[Robn]

They had em a few weeks ago in the Extra store in Beckton Londn E16, downside is braving the air to get there (close to EUrope's largest sewage plant that converts shit to solid blocks that are then burned to produce energy and a very challenging aroma.

I bought nice pairs by Prefab Sprout and Stevie Ray Vaughan and yes they do sound like the original artists and quality seems to equate to normal CD.

At £4 a pair legit downloads seem very expensive, still prefer Ilford charity shop LPs.

 

[bluefish]

I've had a few of these and they are pretty good. I've bought things I wouldn't have tried otherwise. They are all 2 albums packaged together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood & Couldn't Stand the Weather (excellent);

Pink - Can't take me Home and Missundaztood (mixed);

Dylan - Time out of Mind and Love & Theft (OK, but nowhere near as good as Desire);

Fugees - Blunted on Reality & the Score (a few good tracks like Killing me Softly, but the rest is pretty coarse / boring).

It seems to me that they have packed at least one, if not 2, of each artist's weakest albums in an attempt to generate any extra revenue they can.

 

[vinyl-junkie]

Downloads may be closer to Carbon Neutral? I'm off to wash my mouth out...

S&C,
I've seen them about in Tesco in Cardiff to? Are they the real deal - not as played by a monkey with pan pipes?

Cheers

hehe, i was in a Barcelona tube station, and this man played we are the world on pan pipes in a 20 minute version complete with solo.now that i would buy for 4 quid in a tesco

 

[Whizzkid]

Are they the real deal - not as played by a monkey with pan pipes?

Cheers

Post of the year for me ROLMAO.





Dean..

 

[MarkS]

Why not try shopping at Waitrose instead

I don't know about cd's at Waitrose but their food prices are almost double their competitors for the same produce. Give me Tesco any day of the week.

 

[concrete]

Surely better Tesco than Asda, anyway (Part of the Walmart family)

 

[gaunaik]

Santana - Supernatural and Shaman - great music, £4 bargin!

 

[DuncanF]

I don't know about cd's at Waitrose but their food prices are almost double their competitors for the same produce.

Quite right too. Keeps the pikeys out. I occasionally pop into my local Tesco's (they also stock these £4 cheapies) which seems to be bursting with gangs of hoodies, fourteen year old girls pushing their kids around in buggies and mothers yelling at their kids. Fortunately they never make it as far as Waitrose. A far more civilised shopping experience, and I'm happy to pay for it.

 

[MarkS]

I occasionally pop into my local Tesco's (they also stock these £4 cheapies) which seems to be bursting with gangs of hoodies, fourteen year old girls pushing their kids around in buggies and mothers yelling at their kids.

Obviously you live in a genetically challenged neighbourhood. You have my sympathy.

 

[Mole Man]

Hello mole man,

I have to drive directly past a 24 hour Tesco store with petrol station on my way home from work, i can't actually avoid it, so i always fill up with petrol there and occasionaly pop in to get a few things, especially in the wee small hours if i'm not busy at work and just waiting for our early bird to leave before i can knock off, like this morning ( I work for an Airline).

We do all of our proper shopping at Marks and Spencer (food) and Asda ( household essentials ). There are no Waitrose nearby...


Fair enough , Sid, fair enough...

I don't know about cd's at Waitrose but their food prices are almost double their competitors for the same produce. Give me Tesco any day of the week.

Interesting, MarkS; can you find any evidence to substantiate your claim at all? I mean food prices across the board rather than on one or two items.

Quite right too. Keeps the pikeys out. I occasionally pop into my local Tesco's (they also stock these £4 cheapies) which seems to be bursting with gangs of hoodies, fourteen year old girls pushing their kids around in buggies and mothers yelling at their kids. Fortunately they never make it as far as Waitrose. A far more civilised shopping experience, and I'm happy to pay for it.

You forgot about the overweight blokes with their shirts off, pregnant women wearing crop tops, both sexes with bellies exposed and tattoos. Just what I want to see when I'm selecting my groceries!

Good grief!

Best regards,
Mole Man

 

[DuncanF]

Obviously you live in a genetically challenged neighbourhood. You have my sympathy.

I can't deny it. My local Tesco is in Borehamwood. The nadir is reached on Friday night when you enter the Tesco car park as you drive past lines of morons queueing to see the Big Brother eviction. A smart bomb dropped just here would be perfect. Tesco is under the cloud, the BB house is directly beneath the big white studio. On the upside, the white studio is where the original Star Wars was made.

 

[Mole Man]

I can't deny it. My local Tesco is in Borehamwood. The nadir is reached on Friday night when you enter the Tesco car park as you drive past lines of morons queueing to see the Big Brother eviction. A smart bomb dropped just here would be perfect. Tesco is under the cloud, the BB house is directly beneath the big white studio. On the upside, the white studio is where the original Star Wars was made.

Hi DuncanF,

Well I live not that far from you and my local Tesco is in Rickmansworth. Quite a middle class area one would have thought and yet my weekly shopping trips just became too much to bear. Agree that Waitrose is so much nicer!

Best regards,
Mole Man