Having a good local source for most of the folk music CD's I want, I've never ordered from CAMSCO. But I'm not sure the Mudcat Forum is the place to be griping about their shipping costs. Chef (if you're still reading this), have you contacted them personally to discuss this matter? If not, that probably would have been a more appropriate initial step.

I'll neither defend nor criticize CAMSCO's business practices. But I will say that, if I couldn't get a CD locally and CAMSCO had it I'd probably order from them in appreciation of my free access to the DT. If I calculated the worth of my use of the database, I'm sure it'd have to amount to more than the cost of a few CD's.