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Two days ago, I went to this store and bought a box of 100 classical music CDs for $19.95! Incredible, how it measures at 20c a CD. It had all the favorites and famous tunes! The downside is that the orchestra and performers aren't famous, but the quality was still acceptable. One factor for slashed costs was the use of cardboard 'envelopes' for packaging the individual CDs.

For those of you who don't know much about me, I listen to mostly classical/orchestral music. A serious taste in classical music is a trademark of conservatism!

Hey, if ya like em...

Two days ago, I went to this store and bought a box of 100 classical music CDs for $19.95! Incredible, how it measures at 20c a CD. It had all the favorites and famous tunes! The downside is that the orchestra and performers aren't famous, but the quality was still acceptable. One factor for slashed costs was the use of cardboard 'envelopes' for packaging the individual CDs.

For those of you who don't know much about me, I listen to mostly classical/orchestral music. A serious taste in classical music is a trademark of conservatism!


That's fantastic. Good job.

Edit: When I was younger, I only listened to classical music, and look how I turned out.

For all you Europeans, North Americans and Australians out there, it was N.Z.$19.95!

Apparently, you can buy 100 cds of Yoko Ono's greatest hits for the same price. Best part is, they're reuseable since they are all blank. :D

Hell, I'm still listening to 'em. Looks like they'll last a lifetime!

Apparently, you can buy 100 cds of Yoko Ono's greatest hits for the same price. Best part is, they're reuseable since they are all blank. :D

Lennon's Jap whore made music?! I don't like that modern hippie crap!

Hell, I'm still listening to 'em. Looks like they'll last a lifetime!
I once got 100 blank cd's and the store paid me a penny, after a rebate, it was quite interesting

Any other listeners of classical music out there?

I have Schroeder's Greatest Hits. *nod*

The crap thing was, they had Gershwin's Crapsody in Blue! The best damn piece of American-composed classical is Barber's Adagio for Strings, I like that because sad and peaceful music helps my relaxation.

my favorite classical piece is Piano Concerto No 1 by Tchaikovsky

I'd argue that the best-known piece of American art music is probably Barber's Adagio.

It may be the best one as well--it certainly is a moving work--but there's a lot out there that most people haven't heard that deserves mention.

I'd argue that the best-known piece of American art music is probably Barber's Adagio.

It may be the best one as well--it certainly is a moving work--but there's a lot out there that most people haven't heard that deserves mention.

Barber's Adagio can beat Gershwin any day. Gershwin's genre is jazz, not classical. My other favorite adagio is Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor. Both works were featured recently as background music in a documentary about the Auschwitz death camp.

Two days ago, I went to this store and bought a box of 100 classical music CDs for $19.95! Incredible, how it measures at 20c a CD. It had all the favorites and famous tunes! The downside is that the orchestra and performers aren't famous, but the quality was still acceptable. One factor for slashed costs was the use of cardboard 'envelopes' for packaging the individual CDs.

For those of you who don't know much about me, I listen to mostly classical/orchestral music. A serious taste in classical music is a trademark of conservatism!

That's a great deal!

Hey, I'm liberal and love classical music! Some of the best liberal thinkers were from the classical/romantic eras!

That's a great deal!

Hey, I'm liberal and love classical music! Some of the best liberal thinkers were from the classical/romantic eras!

Haha! Now their 'liberalism' is considered conservative.

Haha! Now their 'liberalism' is considered conservative.

Hrm.... good point! ^.^

I still love it!

Fav. (I know it's well known, spare me!) is Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata #8, either the first or third movement. I don't care much for the second. I play piano, so that should give the reason it's a piano piece! ;)

I once got 100 blank cd's and the store paid me a penny, after a rebate, it was quite interesting
I got my wireless router for -$5.

Public domain music and you spent more than $0 on it? Fool. You got pwnd.

I got my wireless router for -$5.
nice

I haven't paid anything for music in a while, but that's mostly because I downloaded probably close to half of www.epitonic.com and I still haven't finished listening to all the stuff I got.

Public domain music and you spent more than $0 on it? Fool. You got pwnd.

I respect copy rights and the space on my hard disk. Prior to this purchase, I frequented numerous mp3 sites, to great success. But one thing was for certain, I neither had the time nor the connection speed to download endless crap at extremely low sound quality. I was also not certain of the movements to many pieces. To save my time from browsing endless piles of crap and to have CDs for my car (You can't plug your PC into your vehicle, can you?), it was the greatest bargain since that time I bought a book titled Wild New Zealand (filled with endless scenic pictures and detailed description of the awesome beauty of my homeland) in mint condition, for $0.50.

nice
Yeah, I bought the wrong one, but I waited a week til the memorial day sale to take it back, when I got a full refund since I hadn't opened the box, and the other one was $10 off normal price for the sale, which ended up meaning $5 and a free router for me, since the other was normally $5 more expensive than the first.

Yeah, I bought the wrong one, but I waited a week til the memorial day sale to take it back, when I got a full refund since I hadn't opened the box, and the other one was $10 off normal price for the sale, which ended up meaning $5 and a free router for me, since the other was normally $5 more expensive than the first.
thats the way to do it

Any other listeners of classical music out there?
Yup. And player of it as well. Current project: Sastacovich(sp?)

I respect copy rights and the space on my hard disk.

There is no copyright on public domain music. Beethoven will not sue you over royalties ... trust me ... he won't.

I was also not certain of the movements to many pieces.

Oh ... thought you said "serious taste" in this sort of music. This sort of memorization is fundamental. The average 12 year old can probably name every track, in order, and give the recording date on the latest Blink-182 album. I think anyone with a "serious taste" in classical music should be able to know that BWV 814 is one of Bach's French suites for the clavier (en si mineur, to be specific) and be able to hum the Sarabande (that's part 3, by the way) in key.

But, then, you said conservatism and I'm a liberal ... so what do i know ...

My favorite composers are Shostakovitch and Prokofiev. Mussorgsky (spelled wrong, probably) is also pretty good, same with Grieg and Holst.

Adiago for Strings...

wow, that song pulled tears from my eyes so badly in Platoon.

It's one of the saddest scenes ever.

I know basically nothing about classical music other than it sounds pretty and fugues are cool.
But it still sounds good. If I could actually manage to remember the names of some of the pieces I enjoy, it would be a start...

EDIT:
Goddess above, am I being an idiot. Philip Glass. Philip Glass owns. And John Cage, but Cage isn't really of the sort of music we seem to be discussing.

O' course, that's about where my strained knowledge ends.

or you can listen to free legal streaming classical here (http://www.di.fm)

(scroll to the bottom of the linked page)

or you can listen to free legal streaming classical here (http://www.di.fm)

(scroll to the bottom of the linked page)
That website has earned a spot in my bookmarks list.
Yay for free music.

My favorite composers are Shostakovitch and Prokofiev. Mussorgsky (spelled wrong, probably) is also pretty good, same with Grieg and Holst.

I would agree with you there. The non-communist Ivans were fairly talented. I especially love Prokofiev's The Montagues and Capulets from Romeo and Juliet. I often listen to that piece in full volume when I engage in a war RP.

Adiago for Strings...

wow, that song pulled tears from my eyes so badly in Platoon.

It's one of the saddest scenes ever.

I'm quite emotionless as a person, so that piece's 'sadness' empowers me. Goddamn White people, they cry too easily.

Since I'm a HUGE fan of that movie called Schindler's List, I've got the mp3 to the original theme right here:

http://a.parsons.edu/~alison/fall2002/majorStudio/final/mp3s/SchindlersListTheme_ItzhakPerlman.mp3

Oh dear, Classical Music.

Oh dear, Classical Music.

Classical music is intellectual. Most other forms of music is for f*gs and losers!

Classical music is intellectual. Most other forms of music is for f*gs and losers!

Being a music teacher, I can assure you that you are wrong. Many "classical" pieces were written as tavern songs for beer-swilling working men to dance to. Actually, you'll find most "classical" music has no purpose any loftier than getting the composer laid.

That makes me sick. How could you get so much great music for so little? I practically only listen to classical music, but I'll stretch to modern compositions using an orchestra (LOTR soundtrack, for example. Flight to the Ford and the Prophecy = greatness.) I'm so daring, no?

Although I can listen to a single work for ages. I've been listening to the whole of Mozarts Requiem (the one unfinished after the first 8? bars of Lacrimosa), and it is something I can listen to over and over again. But that tends to be because I can never remember the names of the compositions, and so find it very difficult to find a lot of the works that I like. (though I did find in the hall of the mountain King, by Grieg, and I love that!)