Downhill for Goodwill
   Having gone to several Goodwill stores over the last few weeks in search of interesting CDs, I noticed a remarkable drop in the stock available.  Very few of the stores have much to look through, and at this point the number of CD-ROMs for gaming outnumber the music CDs.

   I asked the security guard about this at one of the stores (he was just standing around, and the clerks were busy at the checkout).  He said that Goodwill just hasn't been getting the CD donations lately that they used to get.  He attributes it partly to the growing number of consignment shops and the ability to sell online rather than donate.  On the other hand, he also pointed out that they were doing well with furniture and housewares.  CDs, when they got them, were being evenly distributed across several stores, so they all had something.

   He also pointed to the overflowing shelves of cassette tapes and 8-tracks.  Apparently the folks who are dying off these days (from where Goodwill gets a lot of their donations) are of the generation that bought their music technology from that 1970s window in time that I remember far better than I wish I did.

   It's odd that the last two flea markets that I went to also had relatively slim pickings.  What's going on?