Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Metallica-St. Anger

Interestingly, there's a topic on this on Ars's front page at the moment. Here's the discussion:
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=174096756&m=7290972475&r=9360933475#9360933475

Scroll down to the post by zAmboni in which he does some graphs using RIAA data for sales figures over the last decade.

I tried Morpheus but the availability of titles was pretty meager at that time, and their software had some spyware built in. I suspect the others do as well. What I've been doing is going to the Wherehouse (there's a few in my area that haven't closed down) and buying used CDs willy-nilly. I've picked up a lot of the titles that were recommended here, and many others that "looked" good (judging a book by its cover), whether I'd heard of them or not. Burn them all and take back the ones you don't love.
I discovered a huge number of jazz artists that are just awesome - Billy Ross, Arturo Sandoval, Ottmar Liebert, etc... In fact it seems like 95% of the Cds in the used jazz section are keepers. Blues, too. And reggae.