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I own hundreds of CD's, and in the last two years, I've bought next to none. I got good and damned tired of paying nearly 20.00 for a CD with maybe two decent singles on it. And if you like a single, you can't by it for less than 5.99 or so. I've got euro-groups whose entire albums are great. From beginning to end. It seems like here in the American industry anymore, they find a couple of tunes in a new artists material that sound like decent radio singles, promote the hell out of them, and then when you buy the album, you find out the others songs sound completely different, and all too often, the song that made the charts isn't even one the artist wanted on the album to begin with. Look at the Rembrandts and Duncan Shiek's first album. I'm sorry, but until I can listen to a CD ahead of time and find out whether it's got more than one decent song on it, and until I can buy a CD for 9.99, I'm not buying another one. Not when I can download it and listen too it first. I think that's the real bitch that the RIAA has with mp3's. You can now see what kind of crap they're peddling in it's entirety before they can bamboozle you into buying it.

Exactly. Department stores let you try on clothes before buying them. Computer stores let you fiddle with the pc before buying. Yet the recording industry expects you to buy cds without hearing what's on them and then not accepting returns on opened cds???

I got good and damned tired of paying nearly 20.00 for a CD with maybe two decent singles on it.

I'm a member of Columbia House and every now and then they run specials, like buy 1 at regular price, usually from $15 to 18 dollars and get two free. After shipping it comes out to around $8.50 per disk, which isn't too bad at all. But then I buy mostly older music, not what's around today which doesn't cut it for me anyway.

Btw, I miss the days when a local station would play a new album every week in its entirety, without commercials. You would know beforehand how good it was, and could even tape it if you wanted. They stopped doing it for some reason, maybe the record industry got a hold of them.