jbauer: That's a funny story. Haha, get suckered into buying them than give 'em as a gift.

But hey, I agree with the others: if you're suckah enough to buy from someone on the street, you get what you pay for.

Now, the dude that used to sell CDs outside of Central Park in NYC... I saw this guy at the same place like three different times across two years. Of course I bought some CDs from him; jazz compilations from no-name record labels. Hey, they were pressed (non-CDR) and they had good content. But man, was it shady. I guess they were pressed and packaged by an unauthorized duplication service that is good at small print runs. Hey, it only costs like $2.50/piece to make a complete CD package 500 quantity. Not a bad mark up to sell it for $10.

I'll fall for "hey wanna buy some cheap CD's?" over anything else any day. Well, except for "hey, wanna buy some cheap empegs?"