(Recently, I was frowned upon--intensely--by a longtime friend because of my
"misguided bias" against MP3s.)
Okay, the compact disc is all but dead. I still treasure them, especially all the improvements that were made by the 1990s. But how is a company allowed to copy an existing disc to an everyday blank disc?
To my astonishment, I was looking up that roaring collection of Flamin Groovies demos called Slow Death (Norton Records) on Amazon.com. when I noticed the craziest notation. Their words: "This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply."
Really?