I worked in Terre Haute. You would be shocked how many talented and educated persons answered phones for Columbia House. Many times I tried to get the management to take seriously the need for new marketing strategies and for a more prompt and vigorous move into the internet.

Oh, if you want to hear a C.D. that sounds the way it should, find a copy of anything remastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. The Dark Side Of The Moon is the one I suggest above all others but I have never heard a bad mastering job from M.F.S.L.

A thinner record might possibly scratch more easily if the grooves also were not as deep. I don't think there would be any difference with a CD, unless you were trying to break it. I worked there for almost two decades and have seen no deterioration of the products that I own.