Exploring the clearance section of his local Walmart, Eric made a rare and fascinating discovery. Well, as we’ve learned on this site, not all that rare, but it is pretty fascinating to see an electronic gadget that’s around eight years old sitting on the shelf, marked down on “clearance” to a comically high price.

You remember the Walmart Music Store, don’t you? No, no one else does, either. It’s not just that this deal expired: the store shut down in 2008, taking all of the DRM-protected songs that customers had bought there with it.

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