CD Baby

[Robert Booth]

" Tall talk may be defined as making a noise in language. As such it is characterized by grandiloquence, boasting and exaggeration. At its best it is a kind of poetry. At its worst it is bombast and buncome. For the most part, however, it is comic in effect or intention..."

 

Robert Kempt, compiler of The American Joe Miller, wrote in 1865 of his American cousins: "Their ordinary speech is hyperbole, or tall talk. They never go out shooting unless with the long bow"

 

B.A. Botkin, In Charge of the Archive of American Folk Song of the Library of Congress, 1944

 

Which century were you thinking of, John?

 

Cheers,

Rob

[Boney]

My opinion as a casual American is that the language is way overboard on sarcasm.

I find it strange people are accusing the email of sarcasm. I can't imagine it being read with a sarcastic tone. It's much less of a stretch to me to read it as light-hearted silliness -- if anything, poking fun at the mail-order industry in general. Imagine it being read in a voice like the confectioner in Monty Python's "Lark's Vomit" sketch.

[Spectacled Warbler]

When I first glanced at the email, thought it might be silly spam so nearly deleted it, but read more attentively to realise it concerned the mailing of my CD, and was a refreshing dose of daft inoffensive fun. I was surprised that CD Baby were brave / foolish to risk having their emails deleted and inviting accusations of unprofessionalism, but was glad they had.

 

Amused me for weeks.

 

The CD arrived quickly from the US to England, unopened, in good condition and makes good listening. I'd definitely buy from them again.

 

Joy

[LDT]

The CD arrived quickly from the US to England, unopened, in good condition and makes good listening. I'd definitely buy from them again.

Ah but were the CDs in the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.?

[Hooves]

I just ordered the two Jody Kruskal CDs from "CD Baby".

Here is the confirmation e-mail I received.

Now i'm wondering if I will ever receive these CDs

 

 

 

Your CDs have 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 CDs and polished them to make

sure they were 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 CDs 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, Saturday, January 17th.

 

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!!

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

 

Sigh...

 

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CD Baby

the little store with the best new independent music

http://cdbaby.com cdbaby@cdbaby.com (503)595-3000

 

 

Ive gotten that message too, and CDs Ive recieved have been great.

 

When I ordered the Barelyjuice collection, I asked they Drink a pint and dance a jig while packaging - response was "Done!"

 

they have CDs that are hard to get elsewhere, and sometimes much cheaper than alternative distribuitors.