Between the Beats

You know the feeling when you really need to get hold of a song and you can’t think of anything else anymore? Or, you re-discover long forgotten artists and records that aren’t available in your local record store and you don’t want a lousy mp3-file? The first thing you might do in this case is check out ebay, but on a number of occasions I haven’t been able to find what I want, or I am just not motivated to do all the bidding stuff.  I now have the solution - two music portals: Musicstack and Gemm.

On both portals you can find everything. There is literally nothing you won’t find in every format and for every price. All of the sellers offer their records at a fixed price. Sometimes these prices are high, but as we all know, quality and rarity has its price!  The fixed sale price is much more transparent - you can be sure that you haven’t been screwed in the bidding process by a seller who might be secretly bidding up their offerings under other nicknames, and you don’t get carried away with emotional bidding in the last seconds of the auction.

Musicstack has existed since 1997 and offers more than 25 million records, albums and used cds for sale. With an easy to handle search mask and just a few clicks you get a perfect overview about all of the titles you are looking for, including price, condition and the origin of the seller. The payment process is not complicated and you really can rely on the sellers’ information about the purchased records.

Gemm works in a similar way. This website offers more than 30 million records of all genres, including books, videos and dvds. Gemm has been around since 1995 and is a very reliable source for all kinds of information about the items for sale.  Compared to Musicstack it’s a little bit more complicated and complex to buy something. But when you find what you are looking for, this can be forgiven.

I have already spent more than a few hours on both websites and have even discovered some records of my favourite artists that I didn’t realise existed.