Okay, to the guy who whined about my Amazon links, I have to say: I wish I’d linked to this earlier!

I’d had this six-CD set, “Topics Presents:The Stand-Up Comedy Collection” in my Amazon wish list for ages, because I really only wanted to get the Richard Jeni album. Then the price went to $12.88 and I thought, “What the heck? That’s like $2 an album!” After I’ve ordered it, I find out it’s coming from a third-party vendor…and learn they have another set in the same series. If I’d gotten both I could have saved on shipping, but oh well.

The set arrives, packaged like it’s software (because it’s from a software vendor), and I’ve been enjoying them for weeks. Curious that the vendor is named NothingButSoftware but this isn’t software. Let this be a lesson to anyone starting a business. Learn from Midas Muffler, Best Buy and NothingButSoftware: you don’t want to pick a name which limits you. Midas does more than mufflers, Nothing But Software sells stuff besides software, and when was the last time Best Buy had anywhere near the lowest price on anything?

This was totally worth it just for the albums by Brian Regan, Richard Jeni and John Pinette. If the names don’t ring a bell, you can find soundbits on their individual albums. And that’s what interesting: each of these albums is still selling for about $16 each on Amazon.

Then I ordered the “Stars of Stand-Up Comedy”…for only $7.13! Got that one last week and love it…especially Jeff Wayne’s “It’s OK To Be A White Male.” I’d never heard of the guy before but both of his albums are hilarious.

I was going to link you all to this last week. I wish I had, because the prices just shot up. Honestly, I wonder if these were languishing in obscurity until I ordered them and NothingButSoftware realized how cheap they had them marked!

Of course, even if the set costs $30, that’s only $5 an album. You can also get them cheaper from third party dealers. I recommend these albums and hope you can find a deal on them…or just put them on your wish list for when NothingButSoftware gets absent-minded again.

Each of these has six albums:

Richard Jeni – Greatest Bits
Jeff Wayne – The Jeff Comedy Jam
John Pinette – Show Me the Buffet
Brian Regan – LIVE
Bobby Collins – On the Inside
Pablo Francisco – Knee to the Groin

Jeff Wayne – It’s OK To Be A White Male
Bobby Collins – Out of Bounds
Steve McGrew – Too Much Man For Just One Woman…And Other Lies
Alonzo Bodden – Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
Clinton Jackson – ‘Nuff Said
Gilbert Esquivel – Just Representin’