Stuart M. can't be Tintin, because it's a well known fact that Jimmy Somerville is the Belgian sleuth, and there's only room for one. On exchanges in Record shops, a friend of mine usually says that he was given them as presents but already had one & I think that's worked so far. I managed to get the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street to exchange a 12 inch single that I'd bought but someone then gave me the next day as a congratulations present - naturally I kept the one he gave me & took back the other. There's a lovely story about someone who collected coupons from an lp for a free 7 which you had to send off for (maybe by the Clash?) by repeatedly taking the record back and exchanging it, being very careful to get a different assistant each time. He got enough for a good number of the singles & then gave them out at his college in the spirit of evangelism that overtakes us all sometimes. Lucy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------