ckchee@dgp.toronto.edu (Chuan Chee) (07/24/88)
MAC'S (variety store) is now renting compact disks for $0.99/day. It is available 24h from Avenue & Eglinton and Avenue & Brookdale in Toronto. The store has over 500 CD's in rock, jazz, and classical. There is a mail library catalog that contains over 5000 titles and 400 new title each month. You order from the catalog by Sat at 1:00pm and pick it up Sun 1:00pm-5:00pm. You need three pieces of signed ID for (free) membership. Chuan Chee. ckchee@dgp.toronto.edu
evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) (07/25/88)
In article <8807240106.AA17556@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>, ckchee@dgp.toronto.edu (Chuan Chee) writes: > MAC'S (variety store) is now renting compact disks for $0.99/day. > It is available 24h from Avenue & Eglinton and Avenue & Brookdale > in Toronto. So? I borrow CDs regularly from the public library for three weeks at a time (renewable). For free. Even the overdue penalty is $0.15 per day. At $0.99 per day, it's cheaper to BUY the CD than rent it from MACs for three weeks. The selection at the public library is both intelligent and varied. Even here in Brampton, I never see the same titles twice, and they're always expanding. Certainly Toronto must have an even bigger selection. Your tax dollars buy those library CDs. Why not use them? -- _______ The great mystery revealed: | Evan Leibovitch, SA, System Telly 1st - Egg: 2 min 41 sec | Located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario 2nd - Chicken: 2 min 49 sec | evan@telly.UUCP -or- utzoo!telly!evan
brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (07/25/88)
Or, since these rentals take place against the express wishes of the artists and record companies, you could show respect to the performers you like and not rent them at all. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473
mann@intacc.uucp (Jeff Mann) (07/26/88)
In article <258@telly.UUCP> evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes: > >So? I borrow CDs regularly from the public library for three weeks at a time > >The selection at the public library is both intelligent and varied. Even here >in Brampton, I never see the same titles twice, and they're always expanding. >Certainly Toronto must have an even bigger selection. > ^^^^^^^^^^^ Well, I've never tried to borrow cd's, but in terms of books, I really miss having access to a decent library since moving to Toronto. Where I grew up, we had a Central Library, with a good collection. You had to go downtown, but it was worth the trip. In Toronto, they have all these tiny little libraries, all over the place, with weird collections of stuff. The Metro Library at Yonge and Bloor is great, but reference only. My kingdom for a U of T card! Does anyone know of a really good library in Toronto? -- | Jeff Mann - Inter/Access, Toronto ...uunet!mnetor!intacc!mann | | "Artists' Access to Electronic Media" {utzoo, utgpu}!chp!intacc!mann |
evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) (07/26/88)
In article <1869@looking.UUCP>, brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: > Or, since these rentals take place against the express wishes of the artists > and record companies, you could show respect to the performers you like and > not rent them at all. It's not the borrowing of the CDs themselves that causes the record companies grief, so much as the use of these services to make illegal copies of the original works. A service which lends CDs for a fee one day at a time is tailor-made for people to make quick copies. The CDs I really want, I buy. The CDs I'm interested in, but not enough to buy, I borrow. There's already one case where I intend to buy a CD because I liked the one I borrowed. No radio station plays it, and I would not have otherwise heard of it. That's more exposure, and potentially more sales, not less. Of course, the Brampton library is probably less likely than Mac's to stock Megadeth or Johnny Hates Jazz. Some may consider that a benefit. -- Evan Leibovitch, SA, system telly, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario evan@telly.UUCP / {uunet!attcan,utzoo}!telly!evan "Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon"
36_5130@uwovax.uwo.ca (Kinch) (07/26/88)
In article <258@telly.UUCP>, evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch) writes: > In article <8807240106.AA17556@explorer.dgp.toronto.edu>, ckchee@dgp.toronto.edu (Chuan Chee) writes: >> MAC'S (variety store) is now renting compact disks for $0.99/day. >> It is available 24h from Avenue & Eglinton and Avenue & Brookdale >> in Toronto. > > So? I borrow CDs regularly from the public library for three weeks at a time > (renewable). For free. Even the overdue penalty is $0.15 per day. At $0.99 per > day, it's cheaper to BUY the CD than rent it from MACs for three weeks. > > The selection at the public library is both intelligent and varied. Even here > in Brampton, I never see the same titles twice, and they're always expanding. > Certainly Toronto must have an even bigger selection. > > Your tax dollars buy those library CDs. Why not use them? > -- > _______ > The great mystery revealed: | Evan Leibovitch, SA, System Telly > 1st - Egg: 2 min 41 sec | Located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario > 2nd - Chicken: 2 min 49 sec | evan@telly.UUCP -or- utzoo!telly!evan yeah and STOP advertising for (ugg) MACS, they dont need your help they already ahve taken over the variety store market and they are making a mint at it!!!!!! Dave Kinchlea
larry@focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) (07/27/88)
In article <1869@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: >Or, since these rentals take place against the express wishes of the artists >and record companies, you could show respect to the performers you like and >not rent them at all. I assume that you do not frequent any library for any reason then. Not the math library at UW, not the public library downtown? I hope that you only buy the books you read. Larry -- Larry Williamson Focus Automation Systems UUCP: watmath!focsys!larry 608 Weber St. N, Waterloo, Ontario N2V 1K4 +1 519 746 4918