Zevele,
I think I'll stick with Duffelbag.com. They have been very agreeable on some recent purchases, they are a local company, and they have the best selection I have found anywhere. I am very seriously considering a try at 180 gram Hendrix. I have CD's of almost everything Hendrix that I could find.
Back in 1968 (or so, who can remember exactly) I was dating a girl that lived in a sort of upscale neighborhood just outside of Nasville, Tennessee (where I grew up). One of her friends gave me a couple of albums that her father, an RCA executive, gave her that had been sent to him as promotional albums. He wasn't interested and she wasn't interested and so she offered them to me. I had never heard of them but I took them because they were free and who knew, I might like them. Those two albums were Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love and Janis Joplin - Cheap Thrills. Needless to say, from that point forward my life changed. Whether it was the new music, the changing times or my sister's friend from California that introduced me to a different lifestyle and a different means of "entertainment" or a combination of everything, things were very different from that point onward. Sometimes for the good and sometimes not so much.
I still have both albums along with Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced that I went out and bought.
Back then, the RIAA was a non-profit organization dedicated to the standardization of recording quality. The "good guys". An album could most likely contain ALL good songs and absolutely zero SmerdeT. They also (the record companies) thought that there was no money in hippie music. It wasn't long after that that they got "smarter" and started keeping back the good songs in order to sell more records. The recording techniques got sloppier and the prices started going up. The RIAA slowly became what we know today: A cartel of record companies that, as a combined group, are a bigger monopoly than AT&T or Microsoft ever was.
Okay, I'm done. Sorry about the tangent. Just my particular soapbox. We all have weaknesses.
CVIII