Is this worth it?

This place in South Carolina will take your used CDs and give you an iPod in return. Not a bad deal. Or is it? I'd want a 60 GB one, and I easily have more than 175 CDs I could trade. But that works out to $2.28 per CD ... not sure if I could get more than that at a local record store or not.

(They claim it costs about $15 to ship the CDs, which frankly sounds low, but even if it was $25, it would be worth it to avoid the withering judgment of a record-store employee if you went in to a local shop).

One thing's for sure -- I can't remember the last time we listened to a physical CD from our collection -- they just take up a dresser drawer that we probably haven't opened since the last time we moved. I barely remember the last time I bought an actual CD rather than just getting it online. So, might as well get rid of the things.

(I just recalled -- I mentioned to a friend of mine at work that I still had one of his albums in my collection, meaning of course on my computer, although I do still have the physical CD somewhere. He asked if I would like to hear his latest, so I said, sure thing! Two days later, I got a couple of his homemade CDs in the interoffice mail. I was pretty shocked -- I never expected that he wouldn't just give me a pointer to some MP3s. As an upshot, the CDs are sitting on my desk at work, unlistened-to, whereas I probably would have put the MP3s on my nano and listened to them right away -- that extra step of ripping the CD and adding the metadata by hand, due to it being a non-commercial disc, proving too great a barrier to entry.)