Journal handsomepete's Journal: Hi. My name is handsomepete, and I bought a CD at Best Buy. 4
So without any intentional notions one way or the other, I managed to go a full 7 years without purchasing music at any major retailer. It wasn't on purpose, that's just how things worked out.
I purchased some music from online stores, some direct from labels, some at the local indie record store (with asswipe music snobs and all - "Hm. I didn't bother listening to that CD. They're not doing _anything_ interesting. I'm listening to this [insert 60's throwback that plays in straight 4 with too many effects here] CD. It's fuckin' mind blowing."), some directly from artists. I didn't really think much about it. Then the other day a friend of mine told me that the new Radiohead album was available on the cheap up at Best Buy. So I went up there and bought it on a whim. The weird part is that I did feel distinctly out of place. It was easy enough to find what I was looking for (they only had a billion copies of it), and the checkout was painless, but I couldn't help but feel like I appeared to be a 24 year old trapped in a 40 year old uncool father's body who is trying to buy a gift for his hip teenage son.
When I got home, I realized the streak that I'd broken. I thought I'd be upset by this fact not being a particular fan of the great music cartel or Best Buy, but I wasn't. I decided it was more important that I continue listening to, watching, and supporting what I enjoy. I guess I'm not as much of an idealist as I thought I'd be. Go figure.
For the record, the CD - Radiohead's Hail to the Thief - ain't half bad. Pretty sedate. I was pleasantly surprised after being relatively non-plussed by the Kid A/Amnesiac one-two combo. Maybe I should give those two another run.
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On a similar note, if you haven't seen the inexplicable drama that's going on over at Ain't It Cool News, you should really go watch if you have some time to kill. Unfortunately they yanked the original article which was, to put it lightly, amusing. There are a great deal of links to the original if you're really bored, but to sum it up - Moriarty chastised the internet community for downloading movies (the pre-release copy of The Hulk was the subject of choice) even saying "Shame on you", then the rabid AICN community rained down a day long flamewar of truely ridiculous proportions citing "hypocrisy" as the main course (since AICN thrives off of getting access to pre-release movies they are hypocrites to speak out against it). I don't think either side is completely right, but I do think it's very funny when an internet community absolutely gets crushed beneath the weight of it's own self-importance.
Enjoy your weekend, folks.
I purchased some music from online stores, some direct from labels, some at the local indie record store (with asswipe music snobs and all - "Hm. I didn't bother listening to that CD. They're not doing _anything_ interesting. I'm listening to this [insert 60's throwback that plays in straight 4 with too many effects here] CD. It's fuckin' mind blowing."), some directly from artists. I didn't really think much about it. Then the other day a friend of mine told me that the new Radiohead album was available on the cheap up at Best Buy. So I went up there and bought it on a whim. The weird part is that I did feel distinctly out of place. It was easy enough to find what I was looking for (they only had a billion copies of it), and the checkout was painless, but I couldn't help but feel like I appeared to be a 24 year old trapped in a 40 year old uncool father's body who is trying to buy a gift for his hip teenage son.
When I got home, I realized the streak that I'd broken. I thought I'd be upset by this fact not being a particular fan of the great music cartel or Best Buy, but I wasn't. I decided it was more important that I continue listening to, watching, and supporting what I enjoy. I guess I'm not as much of an idealist as I thought I'd be. Go figure.
For the record, the CD - Radiohead's Hail to the Thief - ain't half bad. Pretty sedate. I was pleasantly surprised after being relatively non-plussed by the Kid A/Amnesiac one-two combo. Maybe I should give those two another run.
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On a similar note, if you haven't seen the inexplicable drama that's going on over at Ain't It Cool News, you should really go watch if you have some time to kill. Unfortunately they yanked the original article which was, to put it lightly, amusing. There are a great deal of links to the original if you're really bored, but to sum it up - Moriarty chastised the internet community for downloading movies (the pre-release copy of The Hulk was the subject of choice) even saying "Shame on you", then the rabid AICN community rained down a day long flamewar of truely ridiculous proportions citing "hypocrisy" as the main course (since AICN thrives off of getting access to pre-release movies they are hypocrites to speak out against it). I don't think either side is completely right, but I do think it's very funny when an internet community absolutely gets crushed beneath the weight of it's own self-importance.
Enjoy your weekend, folks.
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Well there you go, no shame in that. You aren't paying $17 bucks for it, so its okay. I've done that too. Supergrass' eponymous album was the same. Too bad that fucking stank. God! I was so excited- they were coming to DC in support of it and they even had bonus tracks available on line- I never bothered to dl them, and I SURE didn't catch them live. yech.
re: Radiohead- I think you can make a great CD if you mix some tracks from KI