If you like music as much as I do, you probably have some CDs lying around you never listen to. Some music gets tired or you never liked it to begin with. That’s where la la comes in. It is like the biggest music CD swap meet in the world.
You can list your whole CD collection or just the ones you want to trade. Then you list what CDs you want. la la sends you a starter pack of pre-paid mailer envelopes and you just drop the CDs in the mail – similar to Netflix. Each CD you ship amounts to one trade credit.
Once your account has a trade credit you will get one of the CDs you want. la la notifies the traders who have the CD you want and they ship that CD to you. It costs $1 plus .75 cents shipping per swap.
I just joined yesterday and already traded 2 CDs. The community seems friendly and very helpful. Overall, I think it’s a fun concept. I get no kickback if you join other than more friends on the network. But if you want to help me get a la la tee shirt, let me send you an email invite. Drop me an email at bradisaac @ gmail dot com and I’ll send you an invite. 
If not, just look me up after you join – la la screen name Blarneystone. You can add me to your friends list so we can trade.
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I am reluctant to trade CDs for this reason. I’ve put my whole collection on my Ipod.
BUT, if I trade that CD, I’ve technically lost the rights to that music. Am I going to delete the music off the Pod? Nope. This is a stopper for me.
I am sure there are some people who do abuse the system by keeping the ripped music and trading the old CDs. I wouldn’t do that myself. I like to have the cover art and the original CDs. Ripped music isn’t as high quality as the CDs so you never know when you’ll want the real thing.
The only CDs I’ll trade are the ones I don’t want anymore. If the songs from any traded CDs are on my iPod I’ll remove them.
I’ll say 6 months before RIAA sues them out of existence.
that might be true. I remember there was a big tantrum about reel to reel recording killing the music industry back in the 70s, then there was the cassette tape in the 80s and CDs in the 90s. Since all those technologies failed to kill the music industry, I guess la la is the last hope
I think the front runner for killing the music industry is the RIAA. They’re doing the most damage.