Vinyl in Canada

I was given an excuse to leave Japan and get back to Toronto for a few weeks. I was absolutely delighted. That meant I could buy CDs and records for less than 2500-3500yen, and mix CDs and samplers for much much less than 1200yen - srry spacemoth (though that mix CD is brilliant). Upon my return I realized how wonderful a state the Canadian record shops are in. CDs are now selling somewhere between $11 (feist) and $17 (blonderedhead) and new LPs are averaging $15 or $16 dollars -- most of them with a digital copy of the album included. The amateur economist in me thinks I should abandon this topic before I embarrass myself; the shopper in me is frankly embarrassed by how much I spent. But before I stop I have to share my prize find. In a record shop on Queen St. I found an autographed copy of Pet Shop Boys's Please on vinyl, which I bargained down to $5 (no tax). Isn't that just wicked?! Please is just such a brilliant album. West End Girls has to be one of my favourite songs in the universe ----- if--- when--- why ---- what --- howmuch have you got? Neil Tennant voice is perfect for the talk-rap! It is so thin. How wicked! ***sorry to my recipient for being late onthe mailout. Your CD is, however, in the post.***