Dilema

[blue_donkey]

I need to buy a bunch of CDs in order to check whether a new drive mechanism is damaging discs. We're not interested in the contents. Just that it's a CD

Comments

[gerald_duck]

Go to the secondhand and charity shops in Cambridge. They'll sell you (marginally) more palatable CDs that don't profit David Gray for less than that.

Alternatively, we might have that many spare crap CDs around the office - we keep buying random CDs by the boxload off eBay. But I couldn't check until Monday.

[blue_donkey]

I'm checking the new disc loader to see if it's damaging discs so they need to be "as new" and unscratched to be useful.

Being a CD single, I'm also hoping that the edge is unprinted and a nice mirror finish.

[gerald_duck]

If you're checking for visible signs of physical damage, why not just use CD-Rs?

[blue_donkey]

Done that, but we're not sure whether CD-R's are more susceptible to scratches than CD's

[goddessmaat]

Can't you get a James Blunt single for the same price imagine the satisfaction of that :D At least David Grey can sing - that is admittedly the only redeeming faction, James Blunt cant' even do that.

I'd better go before my tirade continues!!!!!

[blue_donkey]

changing the talentless wanker doesn't change the dilema though.

However, I think I would get more joy out of trashing blunt's discs. I couldn't find any blunt discs for 99p.

[joebunny]

I'm surprised you didn't ask me for some of the cd's I have at home which you think are crap. You can buy Ant & Dec's single off me for 50p, goddessmaat and I both are willing to sell you Spice girl albums for 50 p each too ;-) We are of course saving you money then

[blue_donkey]

ok - 50p it is. I'll bring my hammer!