What happened to the CD Clubs?!

day before yesterday shopping with the girlfriend. We went into a store that has a small chain around these here parts. It's called half price books.

CIN : Half price books

Ultimately awesome collection of books, and as the name of the store states. Fairly great prices on books! (was able to get my hands on a copy of zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance for $3). So as the girlfriend is shopping around for some good Walt Whitman books for a presentation she is giving for her class (college, no pedobear action needed here!) and as i'm browsing around the rare books selection, i stumble upon a nice size rack of CDs! most of the albums are $6-7 or so a piece. Browsing through them, i see a few i kinda would have enjoyed, however did not wanna spend that much money on a CD i may rarely listen to (we live in the digital age where i can get ahold of anything way to easy if i wanna listen to something on a rare occasion.. and "legally"!) . As my girlfriend comes over to see what i'm doing, she kneels down and checks out the other part of the rack and i didn't and probably would have never noticed... however is one of the greatest discoveries in the Natti! the $3 and under section! holding back the urge to squeel like a girl/child/manbearpig. I Jump onto my knees and start searching. Immediately finding a copy of cherry poppin daddies and alien ant farm for $2 each... Then coming across the ultimate buy for $3. CIN : INXS-KICK Amazing? Quite so my dear watson! quite so...

However, having the "old school" thrill of popping that CD case open and putting it into a CD player will never, ever, EVER get old. This morning i started plowing through the interwebs to find a CD CLUB service (BMG and columbia house anyone?). However, depressingly i came across a company that had bought BMG out YOURmusic. now the CDs are all $6.99 (good deal however) but, no more CD club! or clubs for that matter! SAD! What am i supposed to do now? srsly? but CDs like a normal person? i shudder at the thought... Bittorrent music and have the fear that little FBI midgets are going to jump out of the CD drive of my PC and flash badges of the music federation of Lars Ulrich? all i want is cheap music, people!