|  | Posted by Morton Davis on 04/14/06 01:24 
"Angrie, dammit" <noemail@myhouse.nyt> wrote in messagenews:Vqu%f.3637$Es3.720@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
 > For several months, I've been sporadically looking for mp3 versions of
 > music that I already own on both LP and cassette, (thank you very much
 > RIAA), so I can load it into my Walkman.  Couldn't find it, so I saw
 > that Buy.com had the download available for 9.99.  (OK - so I was gonna
 > share it too. That's what I do.)
 >
 > I almost caved, but their user agrement is scary. I'm not up on all the
 > technical stuff, but damn - all I wanted was 9 -10 songs, and I had to
 > agree to download all kinds of codecs and DRMs - whatever those are...
 >
 > It was far too long for me to even dwell on. I thought "This can't be
 > good!" and I ran weeping into this den of sympathy. <Insert Hammering
 here>
 >
 > Needless to say, there shall be no "Mad Love" Linda Ronstadt on my CD
 > player, unless I find it cheap at a damn yard sale or something.
 >
 > Sucks. She did a cover of Elvis Costello's "Party Girl" that I really
 like.
 
 
 Haunt you r local flea market and keep a running check on eBay. I found a
 Japaese anime I'd been looking for for ten years at my local flea market,
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