Damn, I would've bought it if not for requiring PayPal. I don't have an account or want one.
- Credit card number/expiration/code
- Billing address
- Name, e-mail and phone
That's all it asks. That's exactly what everyone else asks for. The merchant can even pre-fill all these fields but the card info before sending the buyer to PayPal if they filled them out on the merchant's website already.
It's especially weak to make such a complaint based on your "recollection" while you're two pages away from the actual payment form for Louis' show.
He didn't want to join paypal, fair enough.
He didn't know he could pay with paypal without joining it, now he knows it.
Other HN-ers might see this post, realize they don't need paypal, and go back to buy the video.
IMO this shouldn't be down-voted.
p.s. I know I could have just upvoted it instead of writing this useless post (Which I'd understand if you downvote me by the way), but I thought my point would be clearer with a message rather than a battle of upvote/downvote.
I'm not familiar with this artist, but I wanted to see it out of simple curiosity because he seems to be an artist who puts fans ahead of profits. People like that usually produce high-quality work.