Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Saturday, April 19, 2003 The Pitch: It's Like Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory meets High Fidelity! Yeah, I feel like quite the music equivalent of Augustus Gloop around now. I have, currently, 150 albums stashed on emusic, which means I've marked them for downloading. As for the albums I've actually downloaded...fortunately, that number is a lot less as I've wanted to listen to the things I've downloaded first. But like any good American capitalist, I'm finding myself enjoying the shopping tremendously, and it's hard not to get online when I think of a new artist I want to search for (for example, while typing this very sentence I wanted to see if they had any Elvis Costello (I wasn't betting they didn't but just in case) and then ended up on Donnacha Costello, whose name I remembered from this click-hop compilation I got about a year back at Streetlight, and now I've got another two albums tucked away in the stash.I could bore you with what I have stashed away there, but I'd rather bore you with how I can't remember what albums I've already downloaded. There was Volume I of the Spaghetti Western Series; there was the Princess Superstar album; um, my first reggae dub album I downloaded because I was jonesing for Dub (a weird out of the blue type of jones, the sort of thing that would make me suspect, I dunno, psychic pregnancy or something); Czech vocalist Iva Bittova (whose husband's album I have in the queue); Planet of the Wolves by Guitar Wolf (I tried listening to it once at precisely the wrong time); You Are Free by Cat Power; Dinosaur Jr.'s In Session (which I liked a lot of, and loved Keeblin); oh, and Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights; Robyn Hitchcock's Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival; and Yo La Tengo's And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out--those last three, as I recall, being the ones I used as incentive to join, albums that I would have roughly as much money on as I did for the three month subscription. And you can probably understand why I'm holding off on downloading those 150--out of the ten albums listed above, I've listened to five of them and only two of them with any passion. I am passionate about stashing though--more Czech albums, classic jazz (there are only three albums by Earl Hines, but there's huge amounts of Cab Calloway, Fats Waller and Bix Biederlecke), soundtrack albums (mainly Godzilla), indie pop (Belle and Sebastian, Arab Strap, Dashboard Confessional, Built to Spill), ska, some classical, Bosnian garage rock--and I'm sort of wondering on what kind of schedule (if any) I will take to downloading all these albums. If it wasn't for messages on the message board making it sound like some albums have disappeared, maybe I wouldn't download any of them. Just go to my stash page and look at the little jpegs of their covers, and have fun imagining what they sound like, and knowing I can listen to them whenever I want... I'm still trying to figure out if that idea is kind of a healthy idea or just incredibly super-unhealthy. I'm still trying to figure it out. posted by Jeff Lester | 7:48 PM | |
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