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[ShariBlackVelvet]

I'll let you know. Hoping there's no customs charge. I've had customs charges for a couple of things I've bought but they were more expensive. Last time I had to go to the Royal Mail sorting office to pay a customs charge I asked how much a product is to get the charge and he said if it's classed as 'merchandise/commercial items', if it's over £18 then you get charged. The CD was under £18 - so fingers crossed it's ok.

If they put the item as a 'gift' then it can be higher. You can have up to £40 worth before being charged. I've just googled and you can also find this info at No. 2.3 on http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageTravel_ShowContent&id=HMCE_CL_000014&propertyType=document

If I do get given a customs charge for the CD I'm going to print the receipt and take it to the post office to show then that it wasn't more than £18.
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Black Velvet Zine
www.blackvelvetmagazine.com
Madina Lake interviews in issue 53, 55, 60, 61 & 63.

[ShariBlackVelvet]

The CD arrived today (was starting to get angsty and nearly emailed Newbury Comics yesterday to see if they had a tracking number). No customs charges.

I'd totally recommend people buy it from Newbury Comics - www.newburycomics.com. You get the sealed CD (with usual booklet inside) - and then, while stocks last, you get an autographed booklet separate to that (so you'll have the unsigned booklet inside the CD and then a signed booklet additionally).

It's nice to read the thanks list inside (thanks to the band for thanking 'blackvelvet') - the individual members ones are really sweet with them thanking their loved ones etc. I love Dan's thanks to Matthew, Nathan and Mateo.
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Black Velvet Zine
www.blackvelvetmagazine.com
Madina Lake interviews in issue 53, 55, 60, 61 & 63.

[bertram123]

"After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it. But Xenophon arose naked, and, taking an axe, began to split wood; whereupon others rose and did the like." Throughout his army exists a boundless liberty of speech. They quarrel for plunder, they wrangle with the generals on each new order, and Xenophon is as sharptongued as any, and sharpertongued than most, and so gives as good as he gets. Who does not see that this is a gang of great boys, with such a code of honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is, that the persons speak simply, speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it, before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind. Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. The Greeks are not reflective, but perfect in their senses and in their health, with the finest physical organization in the world. Adults acted with the simplicity and grace of children. They made vases, tragedies, and statues, such as healthy senses should, that is, in good taste. Such things have continued to be made in all ages, and are now, wherever a healthy physique exists; but, as a class, from their superior organization, they have surpassed all. They combine the energy of manhood with the engaging unconsciousness of childhood. The attraction of these manners is that they belong to man, and are known to every man in virtue of his being once a child; besides that there are always individuals who retain these characteristics.