THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2003
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Want to ditch an ancient CD? Try selling it to your area store
By Nicole Roché
nroche@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
| | | Hastings | Love Garden | | Kief's | |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| | Buy | Sell | Buy | Sell | Buy | Sell |
| Radiohead I Might Be Wrong (2001) | $3 | $8.99 | $4 | $8 | $3 or 4 | $8.47 |
| Tori Amos Scarlet's Walk (2002) | $4 | $9.99 | $4 | $9 | $3 or 4 | $9.47 |
| Drowning Pool Sinner (2001) | $4 | $8.99 | $3 | $6 | $.25 | $5.97 |
| Sisqo Unleash the Dragon (1999) | $1 | $5.99 | REJECTED | | $1 or 2 | $.99 |
It seems *Titanic* has sunk yet again.
John Maestas, music manager at Hastings, 1900 W. 23rd St., said the store's stock was overflowing with 120 used copies of the soundtrack from the 1997 Kate Winslet/Leonardo DiCaprio blockbuster.
"We'll take back anything and everything," Maestas said. "If no one else will take back Titanic, we'll take Titanic."
Hastings is one of three Lawrence music stores that buys and sells used CDs. Hastings, Love Garden Sounds, 936 1/2 Massachusetts St., and Kief's Downtown Music, 823 Massachusetts St., will pay as much as $4 for a used CD, which can mean valuable pocket cash for struggling students.
Kanock Sichampanakhone, customer
All three stores offer a money-back guarantee on their used CDs, and Love Garden and Kief's allow customers to preview CDs before purchasing them.
Justin Atwater-Taylor/Kansan
"Sometimes I'll sell back CDs and use the money to buy a brand new CD," said Mandy Miller, Paola senior.
Miller said she sold CDs to Hastings last summer, but an employee wouldn't buy her copy of The Cranberries' To the Faithful Departed because the store had too many copies in stock.
"They bought back a Limp Bizkit CD, though," she said. "Yeah, I used to be into that crap."
Aaron Beall, music associate at Hastings, said the store did not limit the number of copies of the same title it would buy back.
But if the CD were in questionable condition and the store had several copies in stock, then the Hastings employee might choose to pass on the item.
Hastings, Love Garden Sounds and Kief's Downtown Music will pay as much as $4 for a used CD, which can mean valuable pocket cash for struggling students.
service representative at Kief's, said the store previewed used CDs to make sure they didn't skip, but otherwise no special cleaning or preparation was done.
"You have to clean CDs from the middle out," she said, "and sometimes you might mess it up worse."
Sichampanakhone said minor scratches wouldn't affect the playability of a CD, but deeper scratches were definitely
a problem.
"If you can feel the texture of the scratches then it's probably not going to play," she said.
Beall said the CD must have its original cover art for Hastings to buy it back. When a CD has no cover art, he said thats a big indicator the person has burned the CD himself and is trying to get money for it.
Miller said Love Garden carried music that she listened to the most, such as alternative and classic rock.
She said the store also had a lot of rare CDs.
"I've got a lot of Tori Amos singles from there," she said. "Once I found a Wanda Jackson CD for my dad, and those are sometimes hard to find."
- Edited by Amber Bylarlay
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