Monday, June 23, 2008

The Amazon Desert Island Challenge


I was wandering the aisles of a record store on Saturday looking at how cheap all the great albums I already own are. It occurred to me that you could get pretty much everything you really needed by way of entertainment for not very much these days.

So, I dreamt up this challenge. The rules are very simple, viz:

You are about to go to a desert island forever. You have £50 to spend on Amazon. You can only buy books, CD's or DVD's (assume that you can play such on this mystical isle). This will be all the entertainment you will have on the island for the rest of your life.

What would you spend it on? You can make use of any available offers at the time of purchase and assume free postage. You must provide links to the items and their prices.

So, Dear Reader, I look forward to your answer...

*** Edit *** Here are my choices ( 24/06/2008 ). It's not as easy as I thought, I would change this daily I think:

DVD's

The Big Lebowski 3.97
Aliens 3.97
Apollo 13 3.97
Goodfellas 4.97

CD's

Suede - Dog Man Star 5.97
Radiohead - OK Computer 4.97
Smiths - The World Won't Listen 4.98 ( a compromise based on the prices available )
Debussy - Best Of 4.97

Books

HG Wells - Time Machine/Invisible Man 2.50
Zola - Germinal 3.59
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose 5.59

Total: £49.45

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9 Comments:

Blogger Stuart Douglas said...

Can you buy stuff from Amazon Marketplace?

3:14 PM  
Blogger Stuart Douglas said...

And what about those fantastic books which - for reasons beyond human ken - need a £1.99 Sourcing Fee? Do you need to count the £1.99 into your total?

3:17 PM  
Blogger Scott Liddell said...

Just for being awkward... no Marketplace...

3:19 PM  
Blogger McGenius said...

Not very scientific, and very rushed. Tomorrow's list might be very different.

MUSIC:

Dexys - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (£3.98)

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks (£4.98)

Hank Williams - The Best Of (£4.98)

Nick Cave - Murder Ballads (£4.98)

Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin' Lovers (£5.98)

Fatima Mansions - Viva Dead Ponies - 2 CD Edition (£8.47)

DVD:

Annie Hall (£5.97)
Mulholland Drive (£5.98)


BOOK:

The Works Of Oscar Wilde (£3.99)


TOTAL: £49.31

9:17 PM  
Blogger Stuart Douglas said...

Bugger dvds - I'll just look at the sea.

Music

Grace, Jeff Buckley £5.47
No More Shall We Part, Nick Cave - 4.98
Blood on the Tracks, Dylan - 4.98
The Dreaming - 4.98

Books

From Hell, Alan Moore - 15.99
The Lord of The Rings, Tolkein - 10.71
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne - 1.80

Total Cost: £ 48.19

2:02 PM  
Blogger Mr David Gordon said...

Music:


href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Very-Best-Beach-Boys-Sounds/dp/B000GFLHYM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214329480&sr=1-2">The Very Best Of The Beach Boys



href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Cowboys-Have-Chinese-Eyes/dp/B00000DP1S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1214329336&sr=1-1">Pete Townshend - All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes



Books

href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Atlas-France-AA-Atlases/dp/0749554525/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214328942&sr=8-1">The AA Road Atlas - France 2008



href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Am-Not-Christian-Routledge/dp/0415325102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214329109&sr=1-1">Bertrand Russell - Why I Am Not A Christian



href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/1984-Nineteen-Eighty-Four-George-Orwell/dp/014118776X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214329845&sr=1-1">George Orwell - 1984


DVDs


href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/XXX-Hardcore-Lesbian-films/dp/B000MZGVO2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214329637&sr=1-1">Some Ladies Gettin' It Awnnn...





href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Muhammad-Ali-When-Were-Kings/dp/B00005COVG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214329269&sr=1-1">When We Were Kings.





href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Monty-Pythons-Brian-Graham-Chapman/dp/B00008RWS7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214330729&sr=1-1">Life Of Brian.

7:08 PM  
Blogger Stuart Douglas said...

I need to change mine - I'm dropping Grace and replacing it with

Must I Paint You a Picture - The Essential Billy Bragg

An entire evening obviosuly wasn't long enough to make this kind of list!

12:22 PM  
Blogger Scott Liddell said...

Who knew Amazon sold hardcore lesbian DVD's?

I'm liking 1984 too, good shout...

12:59 PM  
Blogger McGenius said...

Why would WDG feel the need to bring a copy of that tedious sounding "Why I'm not a Christian"?

Does he think that the wee insects and funny noises at night would have him on his knees seeking help from the Lord unless he had access to a book that'd tell him not to be so silly?

9:57 PM  

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