No way to get a free recovery disc?

So I spend $740 to buy this Toshiba Laptop and now I am unable to reinstall windows after having corrupt files and because Toshiba decided to be cheap and not provide recovery discs. What genius decided to add important recovery files on the hard drive?
Does calling their customer support get you free recovery discs? I am not going to pay $25 dollars for "shipping". That is the most idiotic thing I have heard. Shipping costs 1 or 2 dollars, not $25. University programs give students Win 7 copies for like $20.
Very disappointed in Toshiba. Should have went with ASUS.

It gets better, it looks like even if you pay the 25 dollars you will get a series of dvds that will include all the original crapware that ships with the laptop.
Toshiba (and looks like most other laptop manufactures) will tell you that it was your fault for not making backup disk when you had the chance right after you got your laptop.
Its a real shame and most likely some type of scam pc manufactures have. They could have easily shipped a copy of Windows OS that would have cost them probably no more than 10 cents. Instead, they force you to create a restore backup that not only takes a long time, it also takes around 5 dvds. At the end it ends up costing you a lot more money to have those backups AND this backups include the original crapware again.

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