04/20/06 Cost Per Minute: Are Compact Discs A Good Value?
You've heard many times on the pages of AVRev.com about how the woes of the music industry can't be placed solely on the shoulders of peer-to-peer file swapping or piracy. The fact that the compact disc is still a poor value was never more evident to me than when I was at the mega electronics store WOW! in Long Beach, California this weekend. Click here for more... http://www.avrev.com/news/0406/20.metallica.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Win an Integra DTR 7.6 Receiver One lucky AVRev.com reader will be taking home this incredible 7.1 Channel Receiver . 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