Thanks you guys for your messages! The CD's are burned music with printed out covers. They are part of a series I've been collecting, so I'd rather have the actual CD's. I haven't listened to the CD's to see how good the music is.
I was surprised that the Paypal people are so casual about the whole thing. They claim they have this great buyer protection but they don't. I made the mistake of falling for their requests to not use my credit card and to get a direct debit from my bank account, because otherwise I would have gone to the credit card company and probably gotten my money back that way. I was surprised that the Paypal people insisted I send the CD's back rather than destroy them here -- I pointed out that they are basically ordering me to send illegal goods through the mail, and they basically said, "We don't care."
I reported the seller to Ebay for fraud, but I don't know how much difference it will make. Ebay said that they will not tell me what action (if any) they end up taking, "for privacy reasons."
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"