I love you folks in the Pacific Northwest!

I recently had to buy a CD put out by an extremely popular local band online, because all the area record stores here are sold out of it. This group, "Martini Shot" is phenomenal, BTW. Wouldn't surprise me if they start to make it big on the national scene, as well as the local one. Anyhow, they use an independent distributer out of Portland called "CD Baby."

I just had to share the order confirmation I got from CD Baby with you all:


Qty Description Price Total
=== =========== ===== =====
1 THE MARTINI SHOT: dry & dirty $10.00 $10.00

Sub Total $10.00
Shipping $2.25
Grand Total $12.25



Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
it was in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in
our private CD Baby jet on this day, Tuesday, January 3rd.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as 'Customer of the Year'. We're all
exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!


Thank you once again,

Derek Sivers, president, CD Baby