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Cheapest Retailers
Prices at the online music retailers vary dramatically. On this page, eSmarts has listed stores that we consider to be the top. These stores have been chosen using a combination of factors mainly price, but also selection and customer service. Read about our review process.

1. Pentagon.net sells every standard full length CD for $11.99 or less. And they don’t even try and catch you with high shipping costs. Shipping is $1.99 for regular mail. This is one of the best deals available on the internet.
2. Shopping.com has good content and a fabulous price to go along with it. The have BillBoard's top 40 CDs on sale for only $8.97.
3. Cheap-CDs also has excellent prices. They are not accessible by telephone.

Other Notable Stores (Listed Alphabetically)
Amazon.com, the internet site known for its books, offers music as well. The content on this site is fabulous. From listener reviews and ratings to sound clips of many popular albums, the site offers everything you're looking for before buying a CD. They also offer a vast selection of CDs.
CDBargains is a decent site that sells both new and used cds. They guarantee their used cds will play like new, and the prices for the used cds are good.
CDnow is the most popular CD site on the Internet. They offer over 250,000 items (mostly cds) and has the best content of any site. Browse through their feature articles, reviews, and discussion groups or listen to real audio clips of your favorite music.
CD Universe is a very nice looking site, well organized, with a good search engine that will allow you to find anything you are looking for quickly.
Music for a Song is a no frills site offering pretty good prices. They offer nothing in the way of content. Some CDs are priced great; while, others are somewhat higher than average.
MusicBlvd offers very nice content. You can check out their featured CDs, the billboard charts, new releases, and get updated news on your favorite type of music. They offer sound samples in both real audio and mpeg format

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