My LaLa Experience…..so far
http://www.lala.com
LaLa is a place to trade your compact discs with other people for about $2 per CD. Yeah, pinch me, right? Let me repeat that line…
LaLa is a place to trade your compact discs with other people for about $2 per CD. I stumbled into this in late June 2006 and passed the info off to an old friend. He joined right up and had some success within a week, so I thought I’d take the plunge. After all, who doesn’t have a raft of compact discs that you just don’t listen to anymore?
July 17, 2006 – I signed on to LaLa and completed the on-line form. They have my credit card number to charge for the CD’s that come my way. I’ll get my first bill in late August, so we shall see how the financial side works out. Just after completing the necessary forms and info, I began entering CD titles into my Have List. I was pretty psyched when four of my first twenty entries were claimed. Cripes! They were:
Tom Waits - the Black Rider
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On...
Wire - A Bell is a Cup
Backyard Babies - Tinnitus
I figured a couple would go in a week, but four in the first minutes, sheesh! And look at that last one - IT'S CRAP! I couldn't sell it for a nickel at a used CD store. I got it as a promo and it's unmarked. Now I'm getting something I'm gonna like. The others I hadn't listened to in a while. Time to move em out!
With the next 25 titles entered, one more was claimed, the Flatlanders debut (Texas folk rock with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and others).
I've got three early Cure CD's coming (“17 Seconds”, “Faith”, and “Head on the Door” just can't be found in used bins), and "Clouds Over Eden" by Richard Barone (ex-Bongos).
So I was sent to send out CD’s, but I didn’t have the LaLa mailing envelopes yet.
July 19, 2006 – When I saw the LaLa mailer in my mailbox today, I almost felt like Steve Martin in “The Jerk” when he dances around to celebrate his name listed in the phone directory. Really, I did.
That evening I printed mailing labels and prepped all five CD’s for the mail. A plastic CD clamshell is included with the mailers so you don’t send the jewel box, just the CD and the artwork. I wonder how this works when you send the second CD of a multi-disc set and you already sent the artwork to someone else with disc 1? That is something to ponder when I get to that point.
The LaLa mailing envelopes are postage paid, so all you need to do is drop them in the mail once the CD and artwork are tucked and sealed inside.
July 20, 2006 – I dropped the five full LaLa mailers into the mail bin at the local post office on my way to work. I should have a CD or two in the mail any day now. I may just blast off into orbit when I get my first one….
LaLa is a place to trade your compact discs with other people for about $2 per CD. Yeah, pinch me, right? Let me repeat that line…
LaLa is a place to trade your compact discs with other people for about $2 per CD. I stumbled into this in late June 2006 and passed the info off to an old friend. He joined right up and had some success within a week, so I thought I’d take the plunge. After all, who doesn’t have a raft of compact discs that you just don’t listen to anymore?
July 17, 2006 – I signed on to LaLa and completed the on-line form. They have my credit card number to charge for the CD’s that come my way. I’ll get my first bill in late August, so we shall see how the financial side works out. Just after completing the necessary forms and info, I began entering CD titles into my Have List. I was pretty psyched when four of my first twenty entries were claimed. Cripes! They were:
Tom Waits - the Black Rider
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take Them On...
Wire - A Bell is a Cup
Backyard Babies - Tinnitus
I figured a couple would go in a week, but four in the first minutes, sheesh! And look at that last one - IT'S CRAP! I couldn't sell it for a nickel at a used CD store. I got it as a promo and it's unmarked. Now I'm getting something I'm gonna like. The others I hadn't listened to in a while. Time to move em out!
With the next 25 titles entered, one more was claimed, the Flatlanders debut (Texas folk rock with Jimmie Dale Gilmore and others).
I've got three early Cure CD's coming (“17 Seconds”, “Faith”, and “Head on the Door” just can't be found in used bins), and "Clouds Over Eden" by Richard Barone (ex-Bongos).
So I was sent to send out CD’s, but I didn’t have the LaLa mailing envelopes yet.
July 19, 2006 – When I saw the LaLa mailer in my mailbox today, I almost felt like Steve Martin in “The Jerk” when he dances around to celebrate his name listed in the phone directory. Really, I did.
That evening I printed mailing labels and prepped all five CD’s for the mail. A plastic CD clamshell is included with the mailers so you don’t send the jewel box, just the CD and the artwork. I wonder how this works when you send the second CD of a multi-disc set and you already sent the artwork to someone else with disc 1? That is something to ponder when I get to that point.
The LaLa mailing envelopes are postage paid, so all you need to do is drop them in the mail once the CD and artwork are tucked and sealed inside.
July 20, 2006 – I dropped the five full LaLa mailers into the mail bin at the local post office on my way to work. I should have a CD or two in the mail any day now. I may just blast off into orbit when I get my first one….
posted by E-Mann | 12:52 PM
2 Comments:
Being somewhat of a Luddite I was a bit skeptical of La La. Your recommendation and the Steve Martin reference sealed it though. This will be my project for the weekend. Now just be sure to stay away from those oil cans.
Being somewhat of a Luddite I was a bit skeptical of La La. Your recommendation and the Steve Martin reference sealed it though. This will be my project for the weekend. Now just be sure to stay away from those oil cans.
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