Phil Spector - Back to Mono: $12.99 on Amazon

Hi everyone,

I was looking for a copy of the Back to Mono box for the A Christmas Gift For You disc (The Ronettes' "Frosty the Snowman" is sublime), and it appears that Amazon is selling brand new copies of the box for $12.99. Yes, Amazon, and not one of their marketplace sellers.

If you don't have this box, it might be too good of an offer to pass up at this price!

 

I think there was another recent thread about this. I just happened to pick up a copy at Virgin today for $15.99... that's the SALE price, the non-SALE price is $19.99.

I'm enjoying the heck out of it tonight. I don't know if anybody zeroed-in on a theory as to the price slashing over at ABKCO, but maybe Al-o-baby sees the demise of the CD in sharper focus than the rest of the industry.

This is definitely among the best value-for-money purchases in my music-buying life. Great music, nice booklet.

 

Geez - a while back I was glad to have picked up a spare book from the box in a second hand store for £5. I was planning ahead - thinking I would sell the set some day in the not too distant future when a better collection came out one day. That way I'd still have the wonderful book.

Had I known then that I if I waited I could have bought another complete box set for about the same price I wouldn't have bothered!!

When I got this set back in '91 it was £60. That's was well over $100 even then!!!

 

I bought three copies the other day at Buy.com (one for myself and two for Christmas gifts) using the Google checkout Buy.com holiday bonus and got all three shipped for $30.04!

What's interesting is that originally I tried to purchase them at Amazon when I saw that $12.99 price, but the Amazon system kept kicking one out of my shopping cart and would only let me buy two. Since I needed three, I began looking at other etailers. Although the individual price was more at Buy.com, with the Google checkout coupon, I saved almost $9.00 compared to the same order at Amazon.

No matter where you get it, at these prices, this set is a steal and well worth adding to your library.

 

But am i going to buy this and have a new (better?) version come along?

 

At $12.99 does it matter?

This set has been a constant souce of joy to me for 15 years - assuming you get similar pleasure from it that will be at a cost of $1 per year for you if you include shipping.....

Sounds like a no-brainer to me!

 

It's the real deal. I ordered mine yesterday and got the "Your order's been shipped" email today.

What's next, Robert Blake DVDs for $1.99?

 

Actually, a slew of the boxsets were found in a warehouse and it made sense to lower the price to sell them off, but what a discount Hell, at $69.99, it was one of the best boxsets I ever purchased.... at $19.99 or less, it's an absolute steal. Mal, may know more than I, but I've heard that a similar box of original stereo, or possibly remixed stereo, is on the horizon. Unfortunately, any Back To Mono campaign is way out of vogue now... the marketplace demanding stereo and 5.1 remixes of everything. Get the set while you can.... less than 5 bucks a disc, are you kidding me?!?! Ron

 

Ordered mine Saturday (I think it was), got it Tuesday. In perfect shape, stinker on the shrinkwrap, etc. It's a very nice package and a steal for the price IMO.

 

I think we are now getting to the "bottom" of why these were discounted......

 

Be nice now

 

Wow, I'm going to have to buy this now. Thanks for the heads up

 

i bought this with the Nellie McKay album (the new one) $26 basically, got the free shipping, I couldn't pass it up. $12.99 is too good of a deal even if a better one crops up.

 

Wow! I just saw this last week at Best Buy for $69.I just ordered one from Amazon.What a deal.Thanks for the heads up.

 

Just ordered this on Amazon - only $6.99 shipping all the way to Ireland! That's less than $20 for a heap of great music. And the best news? The US dollar has dropped against the Euro!

 

thank you, thank you, thank you

Just ordered mine and 4 more to give away for Christmas.

 

The 2 I ordered showed up yesterday. Thanks for the heads up.

 

You're all welcome.

 

Is it possible that royalty/copyrights are getting ready to run out on many of the songs on this boxset?

 

Google recently had a promotion where you receive $10 dollars towards any purchase from selected stores, so I was able to get it from Buy.com for 10 dollars off. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that this box set is inferior in terms of sound quality when compared to other releases of Phil Spector.

 

I wonder if I got the last one? It said "1 in stock".

Thanks BTW!

 

If you bought it on Amazon-Canada, you may very well have. http://www.amazon.ca/1958-1969-Back-Mono-Phil-Spector/dp/B000003BDM/sr=8-1/qid=1165030108/ref=sr_1_1/701-5559298-2581918?ie=UTF8&s=music

Still available on the Amazon US site.
http://www.amazon.com/Back-Mono-1958-1969-Phil-Spector/dp/B000003BDM/sr=8-1/qid=1165030264/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-1698922-7597629?ie=UTF8&s=music

 

My copy arrived today (I ordered it on Sunday 26th November) and my credit card was charged with just €15.47. It's a BIG box - it looks more like a box set of vinyl albums but I guess almost all box sets from the early 'nineties looked like this. I couldn't afford to buy box sets back in those days when our little ol' country was in deep recession. A double CD set was a special treat!

 

Yea,I remember all box sets looking like this. I'm glad they don't make 'em like this anymore.

 

Mine arrived today - via Auckland New Zealand for some reason... a well travelled box set but one of my all time audio bargains...