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March 24, 2007
i've got alot of your records in a separate stack
so once again i find my heart burning with lust over the potential of owning my very own i-pod. since the arrival of the brand new company car a couple of months ago (a car i've already put 7500 miles on ) i've been contemplating making the purchase. and really, such a purchase would be ideal considering the amount of time i spend in the car on a weekly basis - it can be very cumbersome to pick out just the right cd selections and i do have a robust catalogue of music that i have downloaded (completely legally i might add) onto my computer and just in case you are wondering it is completely superior in any way to whatever music lurks around the darkened corners of your hard drive - 1700 + songs of credibilty affirming rawk.
it should also be noted that in the past few months - in part due to my own musical stagnation - i have been on a tear aquiring new music anywhere and everywhere that it can be found. but i've noticed that i'm alot less likely to listen to an album as a whole if i have downloaded it. whereas a compact disc with it's alluring jewel case and it's effusive liner notes are treated to my complete and undivided attention. so maybe i'm just hung up on the artifact - i don't know. i think i've already confessed before to geeking out over a new cd purchase. and with stuff i buy online - i do my b.e.s.t to give it the same attention. in most cases i'll burn it onto a disc so i can take it with me where'er i go. but i have this really bad habit of not labelling things when i burn them so i have approximately 10 cd's floating around the car and it can be laborious to pop them in one at a time to find just the one i want. why just the other day i was looking for of montreal and finally got it on the seventh try. the first 6 tries were various variations of cd mixes i've been working on. and boy do i love making a cd mix. but that's a whole separate obsession that i shan't go into here. because really we're trying to talk me into buying an i-pod. or justify not buying one.
anyway - i think the point i'm making is that i still have reservations about all of this digital music. while i fully recognize that the bulk of pop music is disposable and driven by singles - there are plenty of bands out there still carefully crafting albums of songs and they deserve to be heard as such. in fact, i was just talking to a friend the other day and we were speculating that - all things considered there is a preponderance of really good and interesting music floating around these days. certainly more so that when we were back in college. not that that really matters - people are idiots and don't really care for a musical challenge so their cd catalogue will never get more subversive than snow patrol. but there's great stuff out there. the aforementioned 1700 plus songs don't even include the bulk of my own cd collection.
i suppose i'll have to cave in someday and make that purchase but 4808 must come first. and i still firmly believe that i have no business investing in such a piece of technology when i still sleep on a poorly inflated air mattress every nite. also this new musical exploration of mine has my computer's hard drive operating at maximum capacity - which causes my other lust for a macbook that i have absolutely no real need for to burn that much more brightly. perhaps if i were fiscally irresponsible in wild and wanton ways like so many of my peers - my life would operate more smoothly.
| By young_christopher | 6:41 PM
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Posted by: Nick Herndon at March 26, 2007 5:22 PM
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