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I went to Border's today. I took advantage (again) of the 'Buy 3, Get 1 Free' sale. I purchased my four jazz disks. On the way out of the store, I was caught 'shoplifting' by the Border's security equipment. At least, the security equipment beeped and alerted everybody to my obvious attempt to steal merchandise from the Border's store. Verdict: guilty. I received the 'guilty' beep. One of the Border's clerks yelled, "Sir!" To my surprise, two customers yelled, "Excuse me, excuse me." There I was, with my four PURCHASED disks, no bag, with the RECEIPT wrapped around the disks. There I was, not running from the store, not looking nervous, and not hiding anything. I continued, calmly, walking right out the front door, into the parking lot, and headed for my car. Still, not running, and not acting in a nervous/excited manner. About one-fourth of the way across the parking lot, I looked back and saw the Border's rent-a-cop coming out of the door. He yelled, "Sir, did you purchase that stuff?" Like, am I going to reply with a, "No. I stole it. ALL of it?" I bit my tongue, and replied, politely, "Yes, I did. Here's the receipt." I waved my 4 CDs in the air, still wrapped in the store receipt, so he could see them clearly. The rent-a-cop yelled, "Ok, but... Sir? Ok, but..." I continued on my way, hopped into my car, and noticed the rent-a-cop returning to the store and his rent-a-cop duties. I understand why Border's has the security equipment in place. I understand that the sales clerk didn't deactivate the security transmitters correctly. It was an honest mistake on the part of the Border's clerk. However, I do have a problem with being bossed around by a dumb machine that creates a beeping sound. I do have a problem with people I don't know yelling at me and running to the door trying to do something to me. I've worked in the retail industry in the past. I may work in the retail industry again in the future. One never knows what the future holds. I know, from experience, that employees in retail stores take much more abuse than they deserve from the general public. Retail work is not as easy as it might appear. You never know how a customer will react, you never know what to expect. You receive, usually, the lowest pay and the worst hours. Guaranteed, you're working every weekend and holiday. But, somebody has to do the job. I'm glad retail workers are as pleasant as they are. They certainly don't get paid enough money to be so nice. My point, I do my best to treat retail workers with respect. Still, when I'm innocent, I don't like to be told what to do by a non-thinking, beeping machine. I choose to not react like a sheep just because a machine beeps while I'm walking out of a store with MY merchandise in my hand. I'm not going to go back in the store like I've seen so many others do. I'm not going to be a jerk about it either. I'm going to keep walking and let the store staff members do what they will. I believe, when I make a purchase, I've traded my asset, money, for the store's asset, CDs. Once I've traded my asset for the store's, we've both agreed to the sale, and the receipt has been printed, the CDs are MINE. I say, fuck Border's and fuck Border's security equipment. Fuck the 'guilty' beep. Fuck the rent-a-cop too. I'm a reasonable individual and I'm innocent. The CDs are mine, I paid for them. Yeah, just try to pry them out of my fucking hands. If the store clerk should attempt to remove the merchandise from my person, he is stealing from me, in my mind. My experience, today in the Border's store, does make me wonder. What can the store workers do? What will they do if a customer 'beeps' and keeps walking? What are my rights regarding MY recently acquired assets (the CDs, in this case)? Does anybody on this board have opinions/knowledge of what the law says? Does the law protect the customer or the retailer? Is the customer required to stop just because a piece of security equipment makes a beeping sound? Does the retailer have the right to chase after the customer and yell, "Sir, sir!!" to a point of making other customers start yelling too? Is this harassment on the part of the retailer? Is it acceptable to not act like a sheep? I'm not going to do anything about it. I'm just curious and wondering.

Feck me! How did I miss that? I'll blame it on my experience with the Arizona higher education system. B)

AfricaBrass: I'm waiting to see what you do with this request, "mo spam please." If you do anything with it. I've have almost zero skill with editing images. I'd have tried to cut and paste the letters 's-p-a-m' from the original picture. However, there's no 'a' to pull from the image.

Ewwww! Bleck!!! Enough SPAM?

Ahhh... A nice end to a good day of hiking. Beer and SPAM! You know it.

Let's see. Which one contains less fat? Chopped up SPAM or whole SPAM?

Errr... Could it be Roman SPAM???

It's just a mess o' SPAM!

Got too many CDs? SPAM 'em!

Yes. We can feed the world with... SPAM.

Hey, you got your Tabasco on my SPAM!!!

Ya wanna feel happy? Buy SPAM!

I enjoyed myself, last weekend, down Mexico way.

How bad can it be? Even fish will eat SPAM. I love SPAM!

Everything must be standardized in post-modren, corporate America. Alas, the official template for a Can o' SPAM.

Dinner at my Mom's house tonight. Of course, everybody is invited.

Got SPAMwich?

The site hasn't been updated for quite a while - the Dave Liebman and Dizzy Reece Selects are still listed under "Upcoming Releases"... I wonder if the Reece and Liebman Selects, being still shown in the Upcoming Releases section, have anything to do with whether the Last Chance section has been updated or not? I'm not trying to argue the issue, just wondering. I've seen Mosaic re-add an item to the Last Chance section, that was previously Out Of Print. It was explained to me that Mosaic might do this if an OOP item is returned to Mosaic. My point -- I've seen OOP items re-added to Last Chance without affecting Upcoming Releases.

Today is the end of the month. Tristano/Konitz/Marsh Mosaic = still 'holding' on the Mosaic site.

The Piano Man.

I'm a witness to this. I've seen, personally, the cracked Larry Young disks. I didn't know how to respond till Soulstation1 let me know these disks were 'copies' and he had the originals stored safely at home. Whew!

I was really enjoying Mr. LaFaro's playing last night. Here is another picture of Scott:

I was listening to the Bill Evans/Scott LaFaro Vanguard sessions this evening. I was enjoying listening to Scott LaFaro as much as to Bill Evans. I found some LaFaro pictures on the internet. And, was reminded how young he was. With all that is discussed about Scott LaFaro, it seems odd that the oldest age he reached was 25 years. I wonder what another 10 or 20 years of experience would have brought to his playing?

Joe G: Damn, buddy. You is gettin' old.

I've been purchasing several of the Fantasy K2s in recent weeks. From what I've noticed, all (or most) of them say they are limited to 10,000 copies. Considering that some of the K2 titles have been around for a few years. Considering their wide distribution in many major retail stores. And, that certain of the K2 releases are major jazz names (Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk). I wonder how well the K2s sell? Have any of the K2 reissues actually gone out of print? Does the 'limit of 10,000' really mean anything?