Given the price of CD's, this is the _
only_ way to accumulate a decent collection unless you're
wealthy. If the
RIAA and similar
slime have their way,
selling CD's second-hand will soon be
illegal. Lending them to your friends will be
illegal. Your only choice will be to buy them
new, at $17-20 each, for what might be
38 minutes of
mediocre music.
One advantage of second-hand music stores is that the staff sometimes actually know their music. Unlike the pimply teenagers at the mall outlet who think Puff Daddy invented rap music. So no worries about asking for Mojo Nixon, only to get "No man, he don't work here!" in reply...