I've heard a lot of people sticking up for the fan club's high pricing, and yes, I guess I'm a whiner. Well, after paying $65 for "exclusive" premium membership, what do I get? The chance to listen to 6 songs from the album... when I can now hear the whole lot for free from bol.com. The chance to buy "exclusive" tickets to see him in Paris... when I could have got them cheaper, with free membership on Ebay. The chance to enter my zip code (or post code for us in the UK, do we exist?) and find my closest store - and whoah.... it links to a non-existant page at "amrecords.com" The chance to buy the record directly from the sting.com website for $28.90 (£18.15 GBP) ($13.95 for the album, plus $14.95 delivery!!!!!), when I can buy it from play.com for either £10.99 ($17.51) for the SACD hybrid, or £8.99 ($14.32) for the standard version - BOTH INCLUDING DELIVERY. I'm fairly confident, that having paid £30 for lifetime membership of the Crowded House fanclub, which included a free club CD (Mixing desk recording from the huge back-catalogue of fan-club only CD's), plus the chance to regularly buy new club CD's of rare or unreleased Crowded House, Neil Finn, Tim Finn, and Split Enz tracks, I have a right to be a little annoyed at how much I'm getting for my $65 per annum. Unless somebody could remind me - what am I getting from the sting fanclub that I can't get elsewhere, for my $65?? J. Plexus Digital Solutions CD-ROM & DVD Duplication, Multimedia, VR Authoring, Web Design and Custom Printed Recordable Media. <http://www.digital-solutions.co.uk/> http://www.digital-solutions.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1902 366221 Fax: +44 (0)1902 366236 Mobile: +44 (0)7811 448679 ================================================================ This message has been sent via Norton Antivirus 2003 using virus definitions updated daily ================================================================