-OR- does anyone have any info on where i could purchase
pedrolira by a french band called holden?

my wife was watching a french film on the sundance channel last night (work hard play hard) and i came down just in time to catch a scene where they were in a club and this band was playing. they sounded very stereolab/air/luna - ish. anyways, after some innernerd research this morning, i've found out that the band was holden. i can't find any english websites on these guys, and amazon.fr is the only place i can find to buy it.

so, i guess what i'm asking for here is a) does anyone know anything about these guys? and b) does anyone have any experience with ordering from amazon.fr...good or bad?

I can't imagine it's any better/worse than regular Amazon. Just be careful about shipping charges.

I bought a CD from amazon.fr before. It went very smoothly.

I've bought stuff from the UK Amazon, but not France. No problems at all - & from what Borg sez I think you'd be fine.

Here's a link to a currency converter, if you wanna know what this will cost ya :

http://www.xe.com/ucc/

Wow is the dollar ever weak right now... 52pounds=100 dollars?!?

Yep. My heyday of buying stuff from the UK was 3-4 years ago, & back then you could assume 1 pound = $1.40 ( roughly ) . Now it's about $2.

ok, placed the order. ***crosses fingers***

i'm just glad the site looks just like the english version so i knew which buttons to hit.

thanks for that currency converter link. that is very helpful.

Good thing I'm paid in sterling. Christmas shopping has been ace the past two years.

No problem. It IS a handy site.

It's worse -- 100$US equal 76 Euro.

And -- 100$US equal 123$CA. The Canadian dollar is nigh at parity with the American. Shit is getting hectic.

And, remember to pay your dancer at the all-nude revues in Toronto and Montreal accordingly.

There's a few CD's & DVD's I've tracked down that only Amazon France has. I might order the CD's, I can wait on the DVD's since I have a region 1 player anyways & I'm not sure I'd get English subtitles. Chinese & Japanese you can count on English subs and my buddy said any country but France.