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Amazon sells Take That and SuBo albums for a pound

By | Published on Tuesday 23 November 2010

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the US where every single American – every last one – goes Christmas shopping, making it a big day for the retail sector, which launches products and advertising campaigns and special offers to celebrate. 

Ignoring the fact that no one has ever heard of Black Friday in the UK, and that actually it sounds a bit like what you might call the day when George Osbourne hands over every penny left in the British piggy bank to our Irish friends so they can have a big piss up, Amazon is running a number of Black Friday special offers over here as well. 

As a result, Amazon announced it would be making a limited, though undetermined number of Take That’s ‘Progress’ and Susan Boyle’s ‘The Gift’ albums available for a mere pound this week in the run up to the big Black day. 

Though don’t go rushing over to Amazon to take advantage of this offer right now. Firstly because both these albums are shit, and shouldn’t even be bought for Aunt Mabel’s Christmas present. And second because all the bargain copies of both titles, of which Amazon says there were “thousands”, have already been sold. 

Amazon UK’s MD told Music Week: “The demand for the albums was incredible. The good news is that there are more than 300 deals still to come”. 

Amazon takes a hit when it sells records this cheap, of course, meaning the etailer pays the going wholesale rate. Some music industry types like moaning when Amazon does these sorts of deals, arguing it devalues music and such like. I’m too busy wondering what Wilco’s coffee tastes like to care at the moment, though.



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