Welcome to yet another rant. This week's is about compact discs and why in the hell they are so expensive all of a sudden. Now, as of late, I have been buying my discs online so I have not actually gone out and purchased CD's from a real store for a while, save for the occasional Best Buy stop. Well anyhoo, my birthday was last Sunday... Oh thank you, please hold your applause... Anyway as one of the many gifts that were lavished upon me I received on o them new-fangled gift cards, you know... the ones that look like a credit card? So anyway I got this friggin' card (which, if anyone important is reading this, is just another piece of plastic! Find some other way to do it!) and it was branded with the Sam Goody name. So I went over there. And if you know me, and the odds are pretty good that you do, you know that I have very eclectic tastes. So anyway I started looking for the latest release from the multi-talented Dr. Dre. Well after a few minutes I did find it, along with its $19.99 PRICE TAG!!!!!! What in the hell is this world coming to when a few ounces of plastic, some paper and a lttle aluminum will set ya back 20 bucks?? I mean come on, kids.. everyone knows that you can make a damn CD for 12 cents, and I'll be damned if I drop 3 lunches to add 15 songs to my collection unless it's one of those superhuman ones that will do my laundry, pay my dish bill and make me sone damn ravioli while I kick back and enjoy The Simpsons, or something. And it also should be pretty enough that you can give it away for an engagement gift. Maybe that's why they call them jewel boxes. But anyway, my point is that 20 bucks for a CD is OUTRAGEOUS, and you stuffed shirts at the damn record companies better listen up and take action, or America will be forced to succomb to your profiteering. Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong....

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