I'm cross-eyed from staring at the cursor. I take a break and walk to my mailbox. Bills, bills, catalogs, bills—wait! Oh, boy! My CDs are here. I'd almost forgotten that I'd ordered old stuff by Neil Young, David Byrne, Billie Holiday, and the Who just a week earlier from CDbargains.com in Dallas. The site itself was forgettable; it's little more than a searchable alphabetical listing by artist of hundreds of available titles, many used and for almost half the price of new. But as soon as Young started warbling the words to "After the Gold Rush," I began to remember so much—even the seventies.

KUDOS Used CDs are guaranteed.

GRIPES The Quadrophenia jewel cases were a little muddy.