Thursday, April 23, 2020

Irks Me

On the iowa city > for sale > cds / dvds / vhs - by owner page, this ad irks me.
I don't care that they request a $10 cash minimum purchase - that's fine. What irks me is that, if I wanted to buy all of these CDs - I don't! - I would need to do math.

Math sucks.

(3 x $1) + (3 x $2) + (9 x $3) + (11 x $4) + (6 x $5) + (2 x $6) + (2 x $8) + (1 x $10) + (1 x $15) = $163.

Why not just say, "Or buy all of them for $150!"

Instead, (belch) I'm going to make you do math!


$10 cash minimum purchase

$1 CDs
No Doubt Tragic Kingdom
Steely Dan Two Against Nature
Tesla Time’s Makin’ Changes: The Best of Tesla

$2 CDs
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Smash Mouth Astro Lounge
Smithereens 11

$3 CDs
Pearl Jam Last Kiss/Soldier of Love (single)
Radiohead Hail to the Thief
Bonnie Raitt Luck of the Draw
Paul Simon Hearts and Bones (German import)
Bruce Springsteen The Ghost of Tom Joad
Toad the Wet Sprocket Fear
Tonic Lemon Parade
U2 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
VooDoo Blue Loa

$4 CDs
Randy Newman Lonely at the Top: Best of Randy Newman (European remaster)
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Pure Dirt (U.K. import)
No Doubt The Singles 1992-2003
Nirvana In Utero (original uncensored back-tray image & title)
Pearl Jam Jeremy (“maxi” single)
Pearl Jam Vs.
Santana Abraxas
Tears For Fears Elemental
Van Halen 3 [aka III]
Tom Waits Small Change
Yellowcard Ocean Avenue

$5 CDS
Randy Newman Bad Love
Pearl Jam Yield (tri-fold digipak)
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley (U.K. import; his first live recordings—not released in U.S. in this format)
Soundgarden A-Sides
Amy Winehouse Back To Black
Neil Young Harvest Moon

$6 CDs
Pearl Jam Ten
Brian Wilson Brian Wilson Presents Smile (HDCD; boxed)

$8 CD
Awna Teixeira Where the Darkness Goes (digipak)
Frank Zappa Hot Rats

$10 CD
Yardbirds Collection (U.K. import)

$15 CD
Voivod Angel Rat

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