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Just browsed a local used record shop...

Desire [Gatefold Vinyl]
With or Without You [Picture Sleeve 45"]
One [Cassette]

Dont know how rare the gatefold Desire or the cassette version of the One single are...perhaps someone can help out with that? I know the WOWY picture sleeve is more common.

MattG

15 years

And how do most people get their CD singles these days? Do independent retailers even carry CD singles? The only indy places around me- most, anyway- are strictly vinyl, and very very very rare copies of older CDs, so newer (meaning 1990+) CD singles are impossible to come by over here. I love the joy of finding something you've been looking for, a hard copy of it, in your hands after seeing so many digital images of it...but unfortunately, I'm usually only reduced to buying online, and that thrill is gone.

So how do you get your CD singles these days?

guam

15 years

1st ALBUM: October
1st SINGLE: Fire.

Then i immediately went out to get BOY and U2-3!
Then concert tix to see them at RAINBOW MUSIC HALL,
in Denver, in 1981!

drewhiggins

15 years

Originally posted by EyesWithPrideB3:And how do most people get their CD singles these days? Do independent retailers even carry CD singles? The only indy places around me- most, anyway- are strictly vinyl, and very very very rare copies of older CDs, so newer (meaning 1990+) CD singles are impossible to come by over here. I love the joy of finding something you've been looking for, a hard copy of it, in your hands after seeing so many digital images of it...but unfortunately, I'm usually only reduced to buying online, and that thrill is gone.

So how do you get your CD singles these days?

PayPal + eBay. Although I understand what you mean about the 'thrill of it all'.

I know, finding singles is nearly impossible but if you take them in decent (with a couple of surface marks) condition, it's all good still and you get some real rarities that way. I picked up the Crazy Tonight remixes single for about $8 and the Miss Sarajevo one with the women carrying the banner on the cover for about $4. I'd love to find some acetates too and test pressings but they come up very rarely if ever. I remember seeing one with ''California'' on it which was one of the titles for Wild Horses and a couple of other edits on that LP record, but it looked dead fake - and no collectors or traders had any idea on it. Needless to say it was taken down soon after I'd seen it with plenty of time to bid. (?)

I badly want the Magnificent 10-remix set but it's far expensive for me (I hate the song as is but love the remixes). Some stores like little independent and second-hand ones carry the older singles up to about 2005, which is where I picked up the CoBL DVD single. Do a quick Google Maps search for 'record stores (where you're near)' and you should get a few results, then give 'em a call. Too easy. In fact, I might go visit tomorrow and see what's new.

As a quick aside, I just bidded on a copy of the Mysterious Ways single with the five remixes for $4 - it hasn't had any bids for the two times it's been put up each time or even for the last 28 days on this current one. Again, I remember also going into the same store I picked up the CoBL DVD single and got the Beautiful Day single too for a bargain $4. The early singles are more expensive mainly because they've been out of print for so long. The easiest one to get is IGWSHA - you can practically find that one in even the biggest chain stores, mainly 'cos it's more of an EP than a true single.

I'm not so much into the one-track radio edits and singles, but if they have good B-sides or even two or three decent remixes I will pick it up, if affordable enough.

sing_a_new_song

14 years

My first album was NLOTH,
after listening a million times to songs like SBS, BD, crazy tonight, WOWY, I thought it was time to buy a cd

(and I rarely buy cd's)
So i decided to buy their newest album. I NEVER regret that!

KieranU2

14 years

First Album - All That You Can't Leave Behind
First Single - Walk On

bartajax

14 years

First Album- HTDAAB
First Single-Get On Your Boots

Normally I dont buy albums, HTDAAB was a present from my dad. And GOYB is the only single I have ever bought.

Droo

14 years

First Single: Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me

First Album: All That You Can't Leave Behind

conjasnat

14 years

First Single - Fire.
first album - boy/October

money was tight when i was young, my brother bought me boy and i got october, love him for that.

kmyers61

14 years

First album - The Unforgettable Fire cd (when it came out in 1984, cds were just starting to come out)

First single - probably something from Achtung because there were a lot of unreleased B-sides on those cd singles.

BonoIsTheMessiah

14 years

I taped War off the radio in 1983 back when KLOS in Los Angeles played full albums every Sunday night. I was 12. My Ma got me Unforgettable Fire when it came out. It was on my Christmas list.

First single: With or Without You.

mike02

14 years

First Album UF
First Single Pride, i I listen it by the Army in 1984!

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