I made my first foray into paying for MP3s (or equivalent DRMed digital music files) last week. I’m too scared to use Amazon at the moment because of WILD CAT POSTAL STRIKES!!! and the album I wanted is NOT AVAILABLE IN THE SHOPS!!! So instead of sending NO MONEY NOW!!! I signed up to itunes music store and bought Simon Bookish’s TRAINWRECK/ RAINCHECK album for £7.99 or there abouts. It’s really good. Next, with almost no thought, I bought his previous record which was good but not as good. I wasn’t really meaning to buy it I was just toying with the idea, like when you pick up loads of CDs in HMV and then end up putting all but one back, or like how you put stuff in your amazon basket but never check out, I was just trying on the idea of buying the songs, so it was a bit of a shock when, with no further prompting required, the music downloaded to my hard drive. I quickly closed itunes before I bought anything else. I need to make sure I don’t go on that thing when I’m drunk.
And then Dan said:
Funny you should mention the drunken angle. This is a trap we’ve fallen into in the past - especially bad if you have a bunch of drunks dancing in your flat who decide they really, really want to listen to something you don’t have. “Baby Got Back” is a prime example of this…
And then Tom A said:It’s so true! By the time you’re really drunk, the internet is the only shop that’s still open. That’s how I bought the complete DVD box set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Mind you, I don’t regret that. But it was very expensive.
And then tom said:Have you seen they’re releasing/ have released a complete Next Generation box set? How glorious would that be!
And then Charlie said:“I like big butts, and I can not lie, all you other brothers can deny…”
I’ve got to say I quite like Baby Got Back. Obviously in a sneering, supercilious, “ironic” way. But man, the lyrics are so tightly done, and the tune’s so bouncy.
Talking of drunken purchases, I got back home and bought Mark Owen’s atrocious song “Clementine” on iTunes after it had been going through my head all evening. Man, that’s probably the most shameful of all my drunken song purchases. I’ve been bottling that up for a while actually - man, it feels so freeing to finally admit to it.
And then Charlie said:Also, although it’s on vaguely relevant, I’d like to say that I prefer to use eMusic. It’s got the advantage that you get the songs as MP3s, and not annoying DRM’d stuff which I can’t burn off to MP3 CDs. The disadvantage is that because of the lack of DRM, most of the large studios don’t open up their catalogues.
But I was able to buy albums from The Be-Good Tanyas, The Free Design, and Au Revoir Simone. Hooray for bonkers female vocal driven independent-y music.
And then tom said:I agree Baby Got Back is fun song. Tone Loc’s “Wild Thing” is also fun in a similarly un-reconstructed late 80/ early 90’s party rap vein.
Also, that’s the second reference to The Free Design I’ve read today. I’d never heard of them before.
And then Charlie said:Did you see “Stranger than Fiction”? Terrible film, at least plot- and script-wise. But it did have a song called “Love You” on the closing credits. That was the first time I heard of them. I quite like them, anyway.
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