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From: kiessig@idi.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Sampling CD's before purchase
Message-ID: <182@idi.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-May-84 21:46:50 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  8 21:46:50 1984
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Organization: Intelligent Decisions, Saratoga, CA
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        At least one store in Silicon Valley which has a very good
selection of CDs will let people listed to them before purchase.
[Century stereo on Bascom in San Jose].  They also have a nice sound
room (with a wide variety of speakers).  Appearantly, CDs come
packaged in one of two ways.  Either in a tall, thin plastic package,
with the CD "insert" on the top, and the disk and box on the bottom, or
with the disk and "insert" inside the plastic box, wrapped in
cellophane.

        The stores around here that have a decent amount of stock on
hand can't afford to store too many of the tall packages, and so they
cut them open, put the "insert" in the box, add a price tag, and
store them vertically like mini-records.  Record stores ("Wherehouse"
and "Tower", at least) don't bother with the repackaging - mostly
because they don't carry a large enough stock, I'm sure.

        My point is that it's only these repackaged CDs that the store
will let people listen to.  No fair ripping the cellophane off of the
Telarcs, for example.  If other stores aren't already doing something
similar, you might just suggest it to them.

-- 
Rick Kiessig
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