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Listen to my CD!

A funny thing happens when you go into business as a record label: suddenly
you get a lot of people sending you email asking where they can send their CD
for you to release.

There are a couple of important presumptions there.

The first, and more easily dismissed presumption, is that if they send you a
CD, you will be interested in releasing it. By [Sturgeon's Law][slaw], that’s
sort of a stretch right there. But let’s not dwell on that too much.

[slaw]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law

The second presumption is much more interesting. Even if we posit that they
have recorded the *finest music ever heard by the ears of humankind*, they are
presuming that you will want them to send it.

Hell, why *wouldn’t* you want to hear it?
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