Carnal Reason

This sounds pretty sweet:

La la is a peer-to-peer used CD store on the net that launched Thursday. You trade CDs with other users, not unlike the DVD-trading site Peerflix.

For $1.49 a pop, my influx of music now approaches what it was in high school and college, when used records were still cheap enough to indulge experimentation. Before la la was born, I had never been able to afford a let’s-try-it-and-see approach with CDs.

Here’s how it works: After setting up an account, you list the CDs you are willing to trade in a “Have List,” and the CDs you want in a “Want List.” Your page also includes site-generated recommendations based on your lists and pointers to other la la users with similar lists.

Several times a week, I receive e-mails from la la telling me to send CD X from my Have List to user Y. Doing so, using la la’s free, postage-paid mailers, I build up credits for acquiring CDs on my Want List.

Each CD trade costs $1, plus 49 cents for postage. For every $1.49 CD you buy, you must also sell at least one of your CDs into the system.

Wired

Posted on June 8th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: General