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Friday December 05 2003, @12:05PM
Music
So I get home from work yesterday and I got my shipment of CDs from Columbia house. I ordered 4 (buy 1, get 3 free sale) but only got 3 - Outkast - Stankonia, Cyndi Lauper - Essential, and Bill Withers - Lean On Me - Best of. So, yes, I rip them all to MP3, put them on my iPod this morning and take the CDs into my car to listen to on the way to work. Put them all in my 6 CD changer, and the other 3 spots are filled with No Knife's Riot for Romance!, Blink-182's new CD and Mark Kozelek's What's Close To The Moon (His AD/DC covers album I've mentioned before).

So, I listen to the radio a bit, catch up on the morning news, but what's the best way to hear songs from all the CD's in my car, the stuff I had and the stuff I just got? Just put it on shuffle, right?

I swear, I heard the first Cyndi Lauper song ("Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", natch.) and then NOTHING from the new CDs the whole trip in. I think it then went Blink - No Knife - Blink - No Knife (I think I even skipped a couple No Knife songs) - Mark Kozelek - Blink - No Knife. And then I got outta the car. So very lame.

So I'm hoping that the iPod does me more justice. :) The first serving today from iPod is Fatboy Slim's "You're Not From Brighton". And now "Red House" by Indigenous. Thanks, Richard! Oh - and special for rdewald and p'raps Dayton - Have y'all seen the new ZZ Top box? Pretty cool. I think it'll be a late add to my Christmas list.


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  • Your gear has better taste than you do and it went on strike :-)
  • ...than the original Bill Withers version of Lovely Day.
    • It's great. It was featured in Gap ads here a few years back, and it's the type of song that you like watching an advert to.

      Instead of stuff like Kid Rock and the like that we get most of the time. Ugh.

      I listened to that song as I ripped it last night...just danced around the kitchen. I didn't know that I knew and really liked so many of his songs.

  • i use it sometimes to remind me of things i haven't heard in a long time, but usually i listen to entire CDs, even if i'm listening to my CDs from my .ogg collection. if i buy new CDs, i will listen to them all the way through. if i get several, sometimes i sample through them quickly first, but then i go to my normal entire CD listening habits. the sampling just helps me make sure i didn't buy total crap and decide which new shiny disc is best suited to my current mood.

    can't spend what i want on music
  • ZZTop box set? Cool.

    I haven't had a Columbia House account since I was a kid!

    I don't have a car, but there's an OSS project [sourceforge.net] for the Archos that I've been using. I want them to develop a massive shuffle feature for it.

    Bill Withers is cool.
  • My mom just mailed me a Columbia House flyer and told me to pick out enough CDs to use up her bonus points. Sweet.... let's see here -

    Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
    The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
    Dido - No Angel
    Travis - The Invisible Band
    Genesis - Turn It On Again

    Oh, and thanks to your Bill Withers suggestion, I ended up buying Lovely Day and Use Me Up on the iTunes Music Store. Great songs... they'll go very well with Ain't No Sunshine, one of my all-time favorites.
    • I have bonus points, but I don't know how many it takes to be able to do anything. Wow....looks like it takes 75 to get one CD - I guess it either just started or you don't get credit for your required purchases.

      Oh well. I'll see if there's any other benefit, but I'll probably cancel soon. I may cancel my BMG account, but I've had it for so long! But it doesn't seem to make any difference how long you've been with them. I guess I can just hope that they offer me some sweet deal to come back. ;)

      • Oh, they'll always offer some sweet deal to win you back. You can just keep milking them for all it's worth, too.
        • Oh, they'll always offer some sweet deal to win you back. You can just keep milking them for all it's worth, too.

          The problem is, sorta, you might run out of music that you can tollerate if you prefer non-mainstream music.

          In the last few years the majority of the music I've purchased through BMG is Classical and Jazz.

          I've been meaning to cancel my BMG account for a while, but then I find a few more CDs that I would like to have, at 80% off or whatever.

          And then I have music points to get a few more CDs
          • I've been meaning to cancel my BMG account for a while, but then I find a few more CDs that I would like to have, at 80% off or whatever.

            That's *exactly* it. Or like their "buy 1, get 3 free" sales. I don't find a lot to buy, but not having to go out and get reamed at a real record store (much less deal with shopping) - it works for me. They're getting better about getting newer CDs in as well - they're already offering Fountains of Wayne's "Welcome Interstate Managers".

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