You know how when you order goods from online companies that the great companies will keep you updated of every move they make (receieved order, processing order, packing order, posting order, shipping order and link to order tracking) and the crap ones will simply send you an email along the lines of “You’ve ordered stuff from us and it cost a lot!”? Well, I’d like to recommend CD Baby to you.

You won’t be able to buy any of your corporate sell out boy band crap because they specialize in independent music only. Which makes a change. And it’s not especially cheap either - between $15 - $20+ (incl p&p) for a cd. So why do I recommend them? Because of the emails they send out to confirm your order. I quote:

Your CD has 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 CD and polished it to make sure it was 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 CD 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, Friday, August 22nd.

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!!

This sort of light hearted commercial attitude brings cheer to my soul. Good on you, CD Baby. You deserve all the custom you get.