CD Baby is a great online record store which sell’s only indie CD’s (indie as in directly from musicians w/ no distributors). They also run a slash-based community site and are doing business like gangbusters, recently breaking $3 million in musician payouts (musicians get $6-12 per CD). Oh, and they answer their email super fast – 2 minutes at 11:30PM. 🙂
Minor quibbles: they have a ‘wishlist’ feature, but it’s only enabled if you have an account, which can only be made if you start an order (it in fact doesn’t appear at all unless you’re logged in). The wishlist is really important because it’s the most convenient way to store out of stock items. Another quibble with the wishlist,: it’d be nice to move (instead of copy) from your cart to wishlist.
I’ve been playing around w/ Dia (dia Win32 Installer) again recently, so in keeping with the recent flow craziness, here’s how I think it should work:
