Posted by Morton Davis on 04/14/06 01:24

"Angrie, dammit" <noemail@myhouse.nyt> wrote in message
news: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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