Don Satz wrote:

>Although I have never looked into it, I assumed that music web sites had an
>international access, whatever that means.  Whenever there's a recording I
>want which is only available in Europe, I feel like a second-class citizen.
>I want total access at my finger tips - Im not asking for much.

I sympathise with Don but there are degrees of isolation.  Music web sites
will indeed sell to anyone - even me - but from where he lives, the US ones
are only a day or two away by mail or delivery service before he has the
CDs in his hands.  I have been waiting for four *weeks* for an *air mail*
parcel to get from the US to Australia.  At the very best it takes about
ten days, par for the course is 2-3 weeks.  I've been waiting for parcels
to arrive in the mail for many many years, and though I'm more or less
inured to it, it's no less frustrating.  From where I sit, second-class
sounds more than attractive!

Richard Pennycuick
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