I didn't make an 'anti' Amazon posting, nor a pro one.

I alluded to the fairly self-evident preferable course of action that CD purchases should be made, whenever possible, from the artists themselves to ensure that the maximum profit goes to them. But if the only way to get the CD you want is via the lengthy river in South America, you could at least do some good by clicking through from this site or fRoots to place your order.

As for buying stuff from cut-price labels, you would imagine that any fule wood no that extreme caution ought to be exercised. I'm not aware of the details of whatever (if any) deal Highpoint has struck with Topic but this thread has alerted me sufficiently to think about asking assorted Carthys, Watersons or Engles next time I see them. Because I can't see how it does the image of their product a lot of good when it's price-slashed like so many cans of baked beans.

Not long ago, people here (and elsewhere) were cock-a-hoop that Five Hand Reel recordings were reissued being on CD. I found it extraordinary how no-one stopped to question the details or to wonder why Dick Gaughan had declined to write the liner notes. Because it was oh so simple. None of the surviving musicians would get a penny out of it.

It never ceases to disappoint me how so many thoughtless people in our so-called community think nothing of paying as little as possible (or preferably nothing) to listen to or watch artists who have, after all, no living expenses like the rest of the population, have they?