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    <title>Books Do Furnish A Room</title>
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    <description>My days in the used book trade. I own a used bookshop in Durham, North Carolina.</description>
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    <dc:creator>richard@edifyingspectacle.org</dc:creator>
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      <title>The $2.00 CD Gambit</title>
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      <description>An attempt to get me to sell a compact disc for very little by one of the odd inhabitants of Durham, NC.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Standing on the store&#39;s porch smoking a cigarette I watched a young man start picking up litter in our parking lot. A litter fetishistic or someone almost dementedly annoyed by scattered wastage? He even picked up a dozen cigarette butts....]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Sorry we don&apos;t make copies of CDs</title>
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      <description>We sell compact discs are part of our livelihood. Don&apos;t any any interest in trading copies of CDs.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[We&#39;ve taken to selling some of our CDs on Amazon. Nobody in Durham, NC has bought any of the various gay men&#39;s chorus discs we&#39;ve had sitting in the bins for years. Similarly various odd categories of music can be...]]></content:encoded>
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      <title>Old vinyl (...hiss...pop...hum...)</title>
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      <description>We still sell old records but the days of our carrying elderly vinyl LPs are numbered</description>
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      <title>You used to be able to rent music</title>
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      <description>Before the damned music companies passed a law you could rent LPs, records but never CDs, eh.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Increasingly the law treats the intellectual property mafia like abused children when they are all but small kingdoms with their own army of lawyers. Do you remember when vinyl records could be rented? This was just before or just after...]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>2003-11-18T17:54:44-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>Dematerialization of the compact disc</title>
      <link>http://www.edifyingspectacle.org/usedbookdealer/archives/secondhand_music/dematerialization_of_the_.php</link>
      <description>Retail MP3 selling will eliminate the CDs, compact discs</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[For the last five years the web has been boosting my shop&#39;s income. Before we started selling on the web I wondered if it would put us out of business. Back when Internet Explorer was still 1.x (During Mosaic&#39;s brief...]]></content:encoded>
      <dc:subject>Secondhand Music</dc:subject>
      <dc:date>2003-11-16T17:59:57-05:00</dc:date>
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      <title>How much is my old vinyl worth?</title>
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      <description>Value of old LPs, records, 78s.</description>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Saw that someone came to this weblog hoping to discover &#8220;how much is my old vinyl worth.&#8221; Short answer: less and less every day. We&#39;re slowly decreasing the space we give to used vinyl. Some folks still buy used LPs...]]></content:encoded>
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