'Trash'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Yowza! That's some expensive shipping. Can I just give you the $10?
ooh I didn't know! (It's my friends' store and where I work on the weekends so I like to give them the bizness)
But, no! just give my your address and I'll send it to you. no $ needed!
ETA if you wanted to send my some music of your own in return that would be more than excellent!
In the NYT: The Album, a Commodity in Disfavor
I think the article in tommy's link may be premature in predicting the Death of the Album. If for no other reason than:
A decade ago, the music industry had all but stopped selling music in individual units.
In other words, a similar article could have been written 10 years (or indeed, even 5 years) ago about the Death of the Single. How can we predict where things will be 5 or 10 years down the road?
Particularly when the single isn't even dead, and people still buy them for the b-sides and the remixes. If it really had been dead for ten years, you wouldn't see the singles floating around, and yet you do. I was sceptical about the artcile, generally.
Besides, essentially what they are saying is the reverse of the death of the single, in that people are *more* willing to buy the single that they like. If people don't buy the album as much, well, it means (at least hopefully) that people will stop putting crap filler on albums and perhaps generate more creativity by figuring out ways to create longer-play sets of music that don't necessarily conform to the idea of the "album."
Question: How gigantic a dork am I if I've been dancing in my chair to the Pet Shop Boys and New Order for the last hour?
It's not my fault. It's spring, it's gorgeous out. I need happy dancing-like-no-one-is-watching music.
Question: How gigantic a dork am I if I've been dancing in my chair to the Pet Shop Boys and New Order for the last hour?
Answer: Not a dork at all. Around here, the only way to qualify as a dork would be if you were dancing in your chair to Joan Rivers and Bob Newhart.
And maybe not even then.
Slate responds to the NYT article Tommy posted yesterday: [link]
So, I'm desperately looking for a copy of the piece "You're So Cool," by Hans Zimmer, from the True Romance soundtrack. I tried to buy it, but iTunes is not selling that particular soundtrack (and I'm not very interested in signing up for any other music download services).
Anybody got a copy they can ::ahem:: to buffistarawk?
Corwood, problem with that article. It suggests that the wave of the future for the CD is the local niche store for people that aren't looking for just the new Mariah Carey.
During any random visit to my local Tower Records, I could find the new Sugababes (import), a CD reissue of a late '60s album by Glen Campbell, a New Wave compilation, the Mammas, and a 2-CD collection of Perry Como's greatest hits. In fact, I did buy all of the above, and a lot more that would qualify as at least "not mainstream" at the local Tower (though not all on the same visit). And in Fairfax, Virginia -- hardly ground zero for the non-mainstream.
OK, Tower wasn't local. But it had a whole lot more than the latest hits. And now it's gone.
Anyone heard the new Yoko Ono album Yes, I'm a Witch? I just love the song "Toyboat." I bought that and a few other tracks from iTunes - so far I'm liking what I've heard....