Have You No Shame, Music Biz? (a Pollyanna question, I know)

The counter of my local Barnes & Noble has a jar of 99-cent CD openers.

Years back when I worked at a newspaper in California, we had one of those sucky themed series that reliably fills space in papers everywhere. This one was called "What bugs you?" The most popular answer was, "your newspaper," but we couln't print that so I moved on and wrote a piece about the second most popular answer: CD wrappers.

Overpay for a CD and then pay some more to open it? Gee, I guess it's not just sucky music and the Internets that's causing CD sales to drop.