skip wrote to zorn-list: sH> How often does the average guy buy a used copy of something about sH> which he is curious, because the nine dollar pricetage makes it more sH> feasible than speculative purchases at roughly eighteen bucks a sH> copy? Precisely ... there are records that I'll buy for five that I wouldn't buy for nine, too, because all I'm really buying based on is a hunch -- but I may well buy (I have, actually, bought) that artist's *next* release for full price, direct from the artist. Did the artist win or lose? -- Jim Flannery newgrange@talmanassociates.com When you can't give anything, you can also receive nothing. Through giving, you also receive. You can never stop giving. When you have nothing more to give, you're dead. -- Mustafa Tettey Addy np: Amira Saqati, _Agdal Reptiles on Majoun_ nr: Wyndham Lewis, _Hitler_