About six months ago, I stopped buying music at stores and have restricted my purchases to web sites. It has worked out well, and although I've entered stores to buy music periodicals, I consistently have resisted the urge to buy there. However, resistance did not win out today. I was at a non-Borders store, and noticed a new disc of Goebel conducting Bach wedding cantatas featuring soprano Christine Schafer. Given my high regard for Goebel, Schafer, Bach, and Bach's cantatas, I was hooked. Further, I started snapping up off the shelves a few more Bach cds, two reissued Karajan/Mozart operas, and then I saw that the store had initiated a used cd section. There were all kinds of good stuff to be had, and the sales clerk asked me if I could use a shopping cart. At that point, a bell went off in my head, and I realized that I was in the grip of a buying frenzy. That really bugged me, and I put everything back except for the new Goebel disc. I can't be sure that my store purchase was an abberation that won't happen again in the near future, but I did feel that I had exercised some decent self-restraint by putting all the other discs back. Gotta go. The mail just arrived, and some discs from CD NOW might be waiting for me. Managing The Addiction, Don Satz [log in to unmask]