DAMMIT I’M A MAN

Another number of note on my trip was 295. As in used CDs for $2.95.

Now, used-CD stores are like mammoths with one foot in the tarpit, and you feel a bit sorry for them when they don’t seem to realize it.

So please note, Used-CD Store, that trying to sell used copies of the Arctic Monkeys’ disc for $9.95 is not going to fly. Not when the big-box retailers are featuring it new for $8.99, or when it’s a couple of clicks away on iTunes for $9.99.

If you want to forestall that inevitable moment when your trunks go under and you’re blowing sad little tar bubbles into the gloaming, you need to rethink your paradigm. The $5.95 range might buy you some time.

But $2.95? Well, back up the truck.

Amidst all the overpriced, cracked-cased, heavily fingerprinted $8.95/$9.95 nonsense clogging the racks at Empire Discs in Garden City, I found the following for $2.95 a pop:

R.E.M.- Automatic for the People
Neu!- Neu! 75
Primal Scream- XTRMNTR
New Order- Movement
Can- Ege Bamyasi