Salvador da Bahia Travel Forum

i would like to buy a small quality cd player in salvador,hopefully at a low price.where can i find one?

obrigado!

I believe if you buy a Salvador's newspaper and watch in Classified Advertisements (Pequenos Anuncios) you will find what you want.
Some other clues are: Shopping Centers, Chain store announcements...
CD players are old gadgets. Today the market is becoming full in DVD, MP3, apparatus. People use this stuff in cars, computers, and at home...
The electronic garbage is increasing... If you search in Topa-Tudo (Jack-of-all-trades)stores, you will take a chance to obtain the stuff by paying an agreed price of R$1,00. Sale in Topa-Tudo is crazy...
Cassiovieggore
Cassiovieggore

i know what you mean but say i want to buy a cd of music that can only be found here.that is not the sort of thing that you can download on mp3 and play on an ipod is it?(bahian drums?)

Well! You want do buy brazilian CD discs in order to listen them... Is that correct?
If the answer is yes the solution get better. All brazilian shopping center sell CD discs. Generally there CDs are set apart from classes: classics, country, samba, pagode, rock, national, international and so on... You just pick up them and pay... The trouble may be: How to listen then since the CDs are in sealed box? I suggest to choose them in advance. There are some sites you may listem brazilian musics:

www.cafemusic.com.br
www.webletras.com.br

Brazilian country, popular, samba musics are very appreciated elsewhere...
Watch the top brazilian 10 to mark out the boundaries of good/bad musics...
Cassiovieggore

I am adding some links you may use to listen some baianas musics. Just click on the loudspeaker and wait till the music will sound:

http://www.visiteabahia.com.br/visite/musicas/ouvirmusicas.php

http://hitnarede.com/2008/11/cinco-musicas-baianas-para-te-tirar-do-ocio-por-roberto-camara/

Cassiovieggore

thank you but the question was for a cd player not cds.

Judd--
Electronics are generally not as cheap in Brazil as they might be in the U.S., although prices on some items have come down a lot more recently.

If you have taken the bus from Barra into Praca da Se/Pelourinho, you may have noticed a very busy stretch (just after Praca Castro Alves) where the local residents shop. Just past this, but before you get to Rua Chile, is a staircase where handmade leather goods are displayed. If you go down the staircase, you reach a labyrinth of streets with small shops and little shopping malls that carry less expensive products, from electronics to clothing and everything in between, for the working class residents of the city. It's hard to give specific directions to any stores I know, but if you wander around, you might find what you are looking for. And you will certainly learn a lot more about the city than most tourists ever do.
Otherwise just hit Shopping Barra or Shopping Iguatemi to see if you can find something of quality in a price range that you find reasonable.

P.S. If you have more specifically Salvador questions, you'd probably do better on the forum at www.bahia-online.net, which has a number of residents and people who actually know the city.