Best places to buy CDs online?

www.cd-wow.com also seems pretty good (but again, only for common stuff). I've got a great site in my favourites back home that sells lots of Japanese releases. I'll post it when I get back!

I buy mostly from Moviemusic.com and Screen Archives Entertainment. French scores are usually from amazon.fr.

I´ve bought a lot of asian cd´s / dvd´s from www.yesasia.com (free shipping worlwide!)

I bought from yesasia.com too and i am very pleased overall. Same goes for cdbaby.com

All of the above sites are worth using.

I've also used http://www.intermezzomedia.com/ for some hard-to-find CDs and Italian stuff and Ark Soundtrack Square (http://www.arksquare.net/index_main.html) for some hard-to-find CDs and Asian stuff (though I have tended to not use these recently as I usually get a prompt of out-of-date security certificates (or something like that). Both have given good service (and Ark Soundtrack sometimes translates track titles if you send them a scan of the tracklist).

I'd be interested in anyone's experience with http://www.rosebudbandasonora.com/catal … Path=1_196 as a source for Spanish CDs. At the moment, eBay is my main source for Spanish CDs.

Watch out for FOOTLIGHT. So often I've had half the shipment delivered with a note saying that the rest of the items I ordered weren't actually in stock. I wasn't charged of course, but with limited edition items, by the time you figure out that you haven't actually bought it, they're sold out at other outlets.

Ebay?

Thanks for the information.

Crikey.

Apparently Movieboulevard (http://movieboulevard.co.uk, link now defunct) in Leeds has gone belly-up.
While I wasn't without some poorer experiences (see above), it's sad to see sucha big specialty store having to have to close their doors after sucha long run.

I remember Movieboulevard from before the internet: living in The Netherlands soundtracks were -at best- a niche market, but the very idea of having specialty stores catering to afficionados was considered pretty freaky. So I scraped by with the regular outlets stocking only the ten or twenty of the latest releases, until -through, of all things, library research- I found Movieboulevard's address and sent out for a catalogue.

What came back changed my world: I never even knew so many scores were actually available. Yes, their prices were steep, even then, but my God...they had EVERYTHING.

In fact Movieboulevard is the first shop I ever frequented (if only through the mail) and they are squarely to thank/blame () for me starting the collection in the way that I did, with regular purchases and a growing interest fed by new discoveries.

Over time of course, as through the internet more affordable options became available, my patronage dropped off to a trickle, but I've always used them as a first stop whenever I was looking for something really rare.

I loved visiting, and perusing their catalogues. I will miss them. It's honestly a bit of my own personal history coming to a close here.

Also, you can ask to be added to the monthly mailing list of Soundtrackers (e-mail them: soundtrackers@adelphia.net). One (sometimes twice) a month they send out a list of new/used/ CDs for purchase (and bootlegs too). And they'll try to find a title if you request it.

Over a decade of doing it, and good service.

My own purchases are almost exclusively digital nowadays. But, when I want to buy limited edition releases from the likes of Intrada, La La Land Records, etc. I have been using Chris' Soundtrack Corner.

It has been a good experience buying from there. But, what is frustrating sometimes is that they don't stock some/most(?) of the titles they have listed on their site. So shipping times are sometimes longer that I'd wish. Especially being used to the instant gratification associated with digital purchases.