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Discover affordable Bandcamp vinyl with delivered prices, quick 30-second auditions, and a searchable local Saved library. Find the Bandcamp records that are genuinely affordable to get delivered to you — then listen before you decide. Cheap Crate adds one focused workflow to Bandcamp Discover / Vinyl: delivered price first, music discovery next. Choose your delivery country and display currency, then let the extension find the current vinyl variants, calculate item plus valid Bandcamp shipping for one copy, and rank the loaded releases by the real delivered total. When a cover and price look interesting, select **Listen** directly on that card. Cheap Crate opens and starts that exact release in the existing player from your click, shows **In player** on the active card, and uses the already validated signed preview without another quote request. Remaining demand-driven pricing can continue in the background. Filter to clearly identified 7-inch records, or exclude only variants that Bandcamp's public text clearly identifies as 7-inch; ambiguous records stay included instead of being guessed. Choose a maximum delivered total and select the single primary **Start digging** action. Exact matching quotes from the last 24 hours appear immediately. Cheap Crate then prices only until eight affordable, playable, unreviewed finds are ready, pauses network work while that buffer is healthy, and resumes only when fewer than three remain. The current Bandcamp batch must finish pricing, and the buffer must still need music, before the next batch can load. The first affordable preview opens as soon as it is ready, so listening can begin while the initial buffer is still being built. The compact desktop player leaves Bandcamp usable. **Quick dig · 30 sec** gives each new find a bounded first listen: it pauses with **Keep listening** when autoplay is off, or advances exactly once when autoplay is on. **Full preview** remains an explicit persistent choice, and Saved-library listening always stays full-length. A release counts as heard only after ten seconds of actual playback. **Smart bargain mix** keeps delivered price dominant but can move a release a few price positions using only local Save and Skip signals. Each pick shows its original price rank and matching signals; **Cheapest first** is always available, switching order preserves the active preview, and personalization makes no extra Bandcamp request. Save records to a permanent local library or skip them; either decision removes the release from the discovery queue. **Saved (N)** provides search, tags, notes, removal, explicit JSON export, off-page reopening, last price and variant, and in-place preview refresh. A failed local write is shown and rolled back instead of pretending the record was saved. The toolbar keeps one primary action. **Prices only**, ordering, hide filters, continuous-digging control, and the local session guardrails sit under collapsed **More options**. The session line shows priced, listened, saved, cheapest, and heard-and-saved. The guardrails show first-playable time, actual Bandcamp requests per playable find, whether the session stayed 429-free, and locally reopenable Saved links. These counters reset with the page or pricing context and are never sent anywhere. Retained exact matching quotes are reused for up to 24 hours. A compact rolling local cache has no fixed quote-count ceiling and removes expired records automatically. Routine pricing calculates only missing or expired releases, and cached releases in newly loaded batches appear immediately. When a vinyl variant's item price alone already exceeds the maximum delivered total, Cheap Crate avoids its unnecessary shipping request. A release-level **Refresh** remains available when you deliberately want a new quote. Features: • All 249 ISO delivery countries • 18 Bandcamp-supported display currencies • Delivered total as the primary number • Direct one-click Listen on the exact affordable card, with no additional quote request • One primary Start digging action; secondary controls under More options • Cheapest-first ordering, conservative 7-inch-only or exclude-identified-7-inch format, maximum total, hide-unavailable, and hide-reviewed filters • Live public item, shipping, stock, and currency data from Bandcamp • Destination-aware seller restriction checks • Demand-driven eight-find listening buffer that pauses when healthy and refills below three • Sequential next-batch loading only after current pricing completes and more music is needed • Globally spaced one-at-a-time requests, immediate 429 circuit breaker, and real network cancellation on Stop • Compact sticky panel while browsing • Fresh-only discovery queue with Quick dig or Full preview, transparent Smart bargain mix, strict cheapest-first order, autoplay, save, skip, shuffle, and keyboard controls • Permanent local Saved library with search, tags, notes, JSON export, and off-page reopening • Local session outcome summary and safety guardrails, with no analytics • Compact 24-hour country/currency/format-specific cache with no fixed quote-count ceiling • Clear unavailable, stale-price, and error states — never invented zero prices • Toolbar icon that opens Bandcamp Discover / Vinyl Cheap Crate is free and every feature works without payment. The discreet **Support the project via PayPal** link opens only `https://paypal.me/topperdrengen` after a deliberate click. Support is entirely optional, unlocks no features, and is not processed by the extension. Privacy: The extension processes only the Bandcamp content and release URLs needed for its price, local ordering, preview, and deliberately saved-library features. Quotes, preferences, save/skip decisions, bounded public genre/artist taste signals, public snapshots, and optional Saved tags/notes stay in your local Chrome profile. Smart bargain mix makes no additional request. Session counters and per-release playback duration used for the ten-second heard threshold and thirty-second Quick dig boundary stay only in page memory, reset on reload or a pricing-context change, and are never persisted or sent. Nothing is sent to the developer, and there are no analytics or ads. Bandcamp requests omit your login and cart cookies. The delivery country you choose is sent directly to Bandcamp only to obtain the visible shipping quote. Cheap Crate never changes your cart or starts checkout. The total covers item plus shipping. Customs duties, taxes, import fees, and later checkout adjustments are not included. Results are time-sensitive, and final payment takes place on Bandcamp in the seller's currency. Cheap Crate is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bandcamp.