[Chancellor Palpatine]

Damn - my wife just called, begging to go to some spa in Dallas - but this may be more important, depending on what I can get already printed on CD, what I can find online and what I'll need to use my old records for.

F'rinstance, have you ever tried to find CDs of Keith Emerson with the Nice, or the Quincy Jones version of "Smackwater Jack" (beats the hell out of the Carole King cut, and the albums got some other great stuff on it)?

[discostu]

Some of that stuff can be really hard to find, one of the other advantages of the conversion is that it's cheaper (once you have all the equipment and software that is, but that cost pro-rates) than buying it on CD especially if they haven't added boonus tracks for the CD (or they suck, lots of curddy bonus tracks out there), blank CDs are about a buck a piece. Also if you're an audiophile you can play with your mix levels and get the CD pressed your way (something I always loved in my recordable cassette days).