Whoa! A mate just told me about this and I didn't want to believe him but then I saw it with my own eyes and downloaded it for myself.
Download 14 x Pink Floyd albums for only $16.50, now THAT'S an OzBargain!! This has been selling on other sites for anything up to $200 including iTunes! Shame it isn't available in FLAC but meh for $16.50 320k will do just fine :)
Methinks the BigPond Music server is about to get OzBargained!
Fwoar!! that's awesome!
Excellent deal. Shame not lossless as you say, and not everything of course, but even so…. Thanks OP.
Can someone that has downloaded this please confirm that it is definitely 16 albums.
When i look in cart it just says "Album"
Thanks
Confirmed, 149 tracks and 1.6GB to download.
Sweet deal, thanks
The remasters sound fantastic so far.
Hey Gav, where's your OzBargain spirit? You should've posted it here as soon as you saw it! We are your friends afterall :)
that +1 was meant to be a neg (I obviously can't use a mouse).
Sorry Gav, I bet when your in for a round of drinks, you leave just before your shout.
Thanks for posting. Missed the Click Frenzy deal (my Ozbargaining skills are not honed quite enough it seems!), but still $16.50 for something that's $199 on iTunes is quite a deal…
If all downloadable music was as good value as this then piracy would decrease substantially …..
Yes and so would musicians' profits.
This is not the place for a debate on piracy etc but …. :-)
In this case I wouldn't/didn't pay $199 - musicians profit $0
However, I did pay $16.50 - musicians profit > $0
I could go on but I won't ….
Agreed. This is actually the first time ive paid for digital music. And the first time in about 5 years ive actually paid for any music.
sounds like you should get out more often stumo.
While true, other people did pay that price so they were making money, just not from you.
ozbargain - home to both the socialist and economic rationalist!
sounds like you should get out more often stumo.
nb. I didn't say that I haven't "acquired" any music in the past 5 years.
The record labels make faaaar more from album sales than the artists. Downloadable music can be excellent value when bands are able to successfully sell it themselves via their own webpage. I'm by no means supporting piracy, just saying the system isn't great - high prices means that consumers look elsewhere, and musicians suffer. I do buy all of my music though :)
yes. gives you choice, then reason to invest in the music you like listening to.
perhaps just another modern form of decent exposure.
You mean record companys profits.
Musicians primarily make their income from concert sales.
If the music was cheaper, it'd be more widely distributed, the artists would then have more people listening, which would increase the potential concert going audience.
agreed. Even if a new album was say 4-5 bucks, i'd buy rather than pirate. Individual song say 50c
Thanks for posting the deal, OP.
The only downside to the whole transaction is that Telstra is true to form in costing more than you expect!
BPM give 4 payment options: Voucher, BigPond Account, Visa PayClick, and Credit Card. I don't have a voucher or BigPond account and PayClick is being discontinued. So the only way that I can pay is Credit Card. I hunted around the BPM site for details of surcharges, fees, etc. Could find nothing.
After paying with my CC, I find that they've slapped on an extra $1 fee. B**&^%% Telstra!
To find any information on the "Credit Card Processing Fee", you have to go at least 4 layers down into the BigPond FAQ. Very sneaky!
And they wonder why they are regarded so poorly by their customers.
Lol now thats what i call tight. Nevermind the $180 saving, they bstards charged me $1 fuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
I think he's more miffed about the near undeclared nature of the charge than the charge itself.
This!
I don't mind paying $17.50 rather than $16.50 for this set, but what if I was buying a single track?
OTOH. $1 surcharge is a credit card fee closer to 6%, rather than the published 1% (plus GST) :-}
I've only been charged $16.50 on my credit card… No extra $1 charge etc..
thanks OP, great deal, but as Tyrotex said, dodgey $1 CC fee, but aside from that great deal!
Make sure you guys have a good listen to "Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict", not sure if Roger Waters being a songwriting genius or… :D
Ye that's a great deal but how do you download a boxed set?
Do the bytes and bits reconstitute themselves into cardboard and plastic?
awesome - thanx for this - just to hear Grantchester Meadows from ummagumma again instead of my old vinyl (which i have no turntable for)
Thanks for this, downloading now (after checking that the music is DRM free). Just used my bigpond account to pay for it.
I've got a lot Pink Floyd stuff already on CD, vinyl and some mp3s but getting it all in one package for $16.50 is a total bargain.
The site must be suffering from the OzBargain effect as it is downloading at a max rate of 2MB/s whereas I should be getting at least 12MB/s from bigpond.
Just bought the boxset, cheers OP. However, the BigPond music downloader install file won't run…so I have to download each of the 150 tracks individually as far as I can tell. Bummer!
This is a fantastic deal, but does anyone else find Bigpond Music a massive pain in the arse to download from? The only other place I buy music from is 7Digital and thats so much easier - download individually, or request a single ZIP. It also lets you choose the format from 128K MP3 right through to FLAC.
While I still went for the bargain, I dont think I'll be picking anything else up from BPM as its just too awkward.
I had all sorts of issues downloading the tracks individually. Had to use 2 browsers…Chrome had issues with repeated names or something, and firefox kept trying to forward me to a bpd:// site for the downloader. Definitely a good deal, but definitely won't be using bigpond again if I can help it
Odd. I just used dumb old Internet Explorer and it worked perfectly. Downloaded & setup the BigPond Downloader no worries and then it downloaded all 149 files one after another without fail. Only took about 5 minutes too. Not sure what the problems are sorry but I hope you eventually get what you paid for.
Wow, maybe it is just me haha. Got it eventually though, so all good in the end!
Yeah the Bigpond downloader was a royal PITA for me too. It took a long time to get it to run smoothly enough to download them all.
Agreed, the bargain is fantastic but it hasn't endeared me to Bigpond music at all.
Is this DRM free, in terms of can I put it on my iPod, Android phone, etc
Yep, I'm pretty sure BPM has never had DRM on their MP3s but used to have DRM on their WMAs so you should be fine.
Many thanks for posting this spectacular deal. An enormous saving over normal pricing.
Wow, that's a great idea!! Why don't we all stop paying Taxes, Insurance, Registration, Electricity, Phone & Internet bills too… not physical products and I don't think they need our cash either. Geezuz.
Great deal! Thanks!
I can't confirm myself (at work atm), but is "See Emily play" on Piper at the gates of dawn.
If not, it's probably their only studio recording that's missing off this collection.
It's not on there. Probably because it was originally a single rather than part of the album (It was released as part of the US album, not the UK album.
Whoa! EXPIRED!!!!
The link now displays "We couldn't find the content you were looking for"
Oh well, t'was a good couple of days run ;)
ozbargained?
I must have bought it just before it got taken off. I did notice that it was #1 on their Top 100 Albums list, so it was a popular deal!
Bummer though that the ID3 data is so crap - no album titles, years or album art. Just spent the last hour manually updating the data in iTunes.
It's also disappeared to the point of not being able to continue downloading it when in BigPond Media Downloader. All files result in "Failed". Nor is it listed in Purchase History.
Seeing I've already paid, I guess a call to BigPond is in order.
But does that mean we get our money back? Since its not "ours" to re-download anymore?
And how would that leave us legally? Like I said this is my first digital music purchase, maybe my last lol.
Bummer, missed it. I guess that's what happens when you go on holidays…
Buy it just for Grantchester Meadows.