If you haven’t been tempted to use Amazon.com’s new MP3 download service may I point out that Clemens Krauss’s 1953 Ring Cycle is currently available for $13.98. That’s $13.98 for the entire cycle. That’s insane and almost enough to make me think we live in a pretty dandy world.

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