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RE: Trading Legit CDs





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From: 	owner-thewho@mpath.com on behalf of Grifterz@aol.com
Sent: 	Monday, March 25, 1996 5:06 PM
To: 	thewho@mpath.com
Subject: 	Trading Legit CDs

>I have a little secret that all of you should know about.  Almost every
>record store I've gone to will let you trade your old CDs for nice new
>remastered ones.  It doesn't always work, but most of the time you'll get an
>upgrade for free, and you don't have to worry about old inferior CDs hanging
>around.  It's worked on all the WHO remasters so far (just got the new Tommy
>for free last week), and every Led Zeppelin remaster when they came out.  The
>only catch is if you bought them from a record club (BMG, etc...).  Most have
>a special label that the clerks recognize as not being from that store, and
>then the gig is up.  I hope this is not already common knowledge, and will
>help some people save money.  If anyone wants to pay me back, I'll take a
>copy of Pure Rock Theater...

>-Matt

No kidding?!  I asked somebody at a store if I could do that and he blasted 
me.  "Oh yeah, right, give away a $16 CD for one that nobody wants to buy!"  
He was really pissed.  Tell me, what town do you live in?  Maybe I'll move . .