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From: bytebug@pertec.UUCP (roger long)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CDs and LPs
Message-ID: <335@pertec.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 20:18:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: pertec.335
Posted: Mon Jun  3 20:18:28 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 01:12:58 EDT
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In article <340@moncol.UUCP> ben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) writes:
>In defense of records, however, I'd like to raise two points.
>1) Plenty of good music is available in the 'cut-out' bins of record
>   stores.  This gives me an opportunity to buy music at $1.99 to
>   $3.99 that I am not sufficiently interested in to justify a
>   higher price tag.  This has helped to expand both my collection
>   and my musical horizons.

I'd like to point out the other side of this issue.  I belong to a CD
rental club.  I don't have to be so picky about the music I listen to
any more, and will often preview discs before I buy them, just to make
sure that it will be $12-$14 well spent. 

I've listened to a LOT more music since I joined the club, and have
found LOTS more music that I enjoy.  How many times have you bought an
record at a store based on one single you've heard on the radio, and
found that one single was the only thing worth listening to.

I don't know if other parts of the country have the same sort of rental
clubs, but it makes a LOT of sense when you think how much abuse a CD
can take.  And you know that some of the stuff has been in circulation
for awhile.  Try doing that with records...  (How many of you have gone
down to the public library and checked out a record recently?)
-- 
	roger long
	pertec computer corp
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