At the risk of beating a dead horse...
I dunno if I would have waited. I am certainly not the most patient person in the world, and haven't always been on my best behavior in a retail store, but lately I've been working on it.
IMO, the music store
could have a way of dealing w/ down computers... if they recognized the lost sales and put the tools needed into the hands of the employees. Down here in FL, I've been through several hurricanes. And a day or two after it blows through, there's the trusty Home Depot up and running without electricity. They operate out of the parking lot; selling just the commonly needed post-storm stuff, which is sitting on pallets. EVERTHING gets hand written on a form, the credit card numbers are put down, and they are able to make sales. Tedious and time consuming? Long checkout lines? Heck yeah, but people are accomodating and patient, when that's the only real option they have. The store did hand out free water to those standing in the 90deg. sun; good for them.
Any music store
could have a form to hand write sales when the puters go down; you'd get your pink copy to show the goth chick at the exit door, and all would be right with the world
