[Dixielandjazz] CD Baby

[Chris Calabrese]

There's a website I recently discovered called CD Baby 
(http://www.cdbaby.com). It's basically a venue for independent artists and 
bands to sell their CDs online. It doesn't cater to any one music genere, 
but there is quite a bit of OKOM listed there (click Browse, then Jazz, and 
pick your favorite flavor). Musicians may want to look at this as a 
no-hassle way to market and sell CDs on the Web, and non-musicians may want 
to look at it to get OKOM you can't find on Amazon.com. (I like that CD Baby 
has plenty of extended-length samples.)

I just placed my first order from them last night and got a huge kick out of 
the shipping confirmation they sent me today. It's pasted below. I like 
their style.

~ Chris Calabrese

> Your CD has been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with
> sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.
>
> A team of 50 employees inspected your CD and polished it to make sure
> it was in the best possible condition before mailing.
>
> Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over
> the crowd as he put your CD into the finest gold-lined box that money
> can buy.
>
> We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party
> marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of
> Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in
> our private CD Baby jet on this day, Wednesday, October 6th.
>
> I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby.  We sure did.
> Your picture is on our wall as 'Customer of the Year'.  We're all
> exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!