true. but not prohibitively so.
at about a dollar a pop, it's not too terrible..
it'd be a lot cooler if it could read 8cm cd-rw's. Then it'd be something...
but still I like my MD. It's smaller (sony mz-r91: about 7.9cm by 7.2cm by 1.9cm), pretty cheap rewritable media, and superior audio quality.
-patchy