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Feb. 25th, 2008 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI can tell I'm getting old. It's finally easier to just fucking pay for the software. I don't want to have to hunt about for keygens. I don't have time to sift through the endless dreck of warez for the one honest, not-virused full install version. I want the fucking software, I want it to fucking work, and I want it *now*. (Man, I'm gonna be hell on wheels when I'm eighty.)
It is also easier, at this point and for most things, to just buy the fucking music. Srsly. This might be different if bittorrent music ever got less sucky, but for now, amazon's .mp3 store isn't that damn bad. And they're like, whoa, real mp3's that I would actually make myself if I had the CDs and inclination. They go anywhere. (This has long been my major and primary objection to the whole i-Thing. Amazon.com mp3 file can become a CD or I can burn 'em to disc for friends or I could put them on a portable player... over and over and over again. It's just like buying a CD and ripping it myself except I don't have to pay for any parts that I don't want. Ever. YAY Amazon! Also, very much an instant gratification type of affair, there. Some cubicle monkeys somewhere should be grabbing one of every single CD that passes through amazon.com and adding it to the online store toot sweet, I gotta say.
All of this was lately brought to my attention due to (a) the multimedia arrangements of late last week and (b) creating the perfect CD for my cousin Heather. Oh, right. I didn't yet talk about the perfect CD. Cousin Heather sent me an email asking me to make for her the perfect CD, which does not (so far as I can tell) talk about momma, trains, trucks, prison, or gettin' drunk. [<-- redneck joke, urban friends are allowed to just smile wanly and pretend to understand.]
Below you will find the contents of the perfect CD. I've bolded the bands I have at least heard of.
New Model Army...Bury the Hatchet
Oasis...Married With Children
Auteurs...Bailed Out
Blur...Parklife
Jilted John...Gordon is a Moron
Carter USM...Under the Thumb and Over the Moon
Cracker...Sick of Goodbyes
Pearl Jam...Elderly Woman...
Cracker...Take Me Down to the Infirmary
Pink Floyd...Bike
James...Sound
James...Born of Frustration
New Model Army...Marrakesh
Breeders...Cannonball
Pixies...I've Been Tired
Carter USM...While You Were Out
Lemonheads...Being Around
Mekons...Where Were You?
Phish...Horse
Phish...Silent in the Morning
Suede...The Living Dead
The Men They Couldn't Hang...Australia
Pearl Jam...Elderly Woman
Resque...She Drives My Train
Cracker...Low
Now, I'd have bolded the songs I knew but I didn't know any of them. Some of these songs were not-impossible to locate. Other people on the planet have heard of, for example, Pearl Jam. I actually even own a James CD though not the one I needed for the listed tracks. Some of the songs are not so easily found but I did manage to pull the absolute last holdout (the [International] Resque track) from someone's blog about almost-made-it British indie bands of the late vinyl era. It's here in case anyone's interested. I might have found it quicker if someone had called it "International Resque" instead of just "Resque" but what can you do. Also, the Carter USM thing? I got better results searching for "Unstoppable Sex Machine" instead of "USM". They are also a no-longer-extant never-really-made-it British indie band. However, every band I looked up had a wikipedia entry. (Take that, Encyclopedia Britannica!)
Anyway, yay for my internet sleuthing. Persons who have made it this far may be amused by Jilted John, a particularly amusing track which you can hear (and see charmingly illustrated) on good old American Youtube.
It is also easier, at this point and for most things, to just buy the fucking music. Srsly. This might be different if bittorrent music ever got less sucky, but for now, amazon's .mp3 store isn't that damn bad. And they're like, whoa, real mp3's that I would actually make myself if I had the CDs and inclination. They go anywhere. (This has long been my major and primary objection to the whole i-Thing. Amazon.com mp3 file can become a CD or I can burn 'em to disc for friends or I could put them on a portable player... over and over and over again. It's just like buying a CD and ripping it myself except I don't have to pay for any parts that I don't want. Ever. YAY Amazon! Also, very much an instant gratification type of affair, there. Some cubicle monkeys somewhere should be grabbing one of every single CD that passes through amazon.com and adding it to the online store toot sweet, I gotta say.
All of this was lately brought to my attention due to (a) the multimedia arrangements of late last week and (b) creating the perfect CD for my cousin Heather. Oh, right. I didn't yet talk about the perfect CD. Cousin Heather sent me an email asking me to make for her the perfect CD, which does not (so far as I can tell) talk about momma, trains, trucks, prison, or gettin' drunk. [<-- redneck joke, urban friends are allowed to just smile wanly and pretend to understand.]
Below you will find the contents of the perfect CD. I've bolded the bands I have at least heard of.
New Model Army...Bury the Hatchet
Oasis...Married With Children
Auteurs...Bailed Out
Blur...Parklife
Jilted John...Gordon is a Moron
Carter USM...Under the Thumb and Over the Moon
Cracker...Sick of Goodbyes
Pearl Jam...Elderly Woman...
Cracker...Take Me Down to the Infirmary
Pink Floyd...Bike
James...Sound
James...Born of Frustration
New Model Army...Marrakesh
Breeders...Cannonball
Pixies...I've Been Tired
Carter USM...While You Were Out
Lemonheads...Being Around
Mekons...Where Were You?
Phish...Horse
Phish...Silent in the Morning
Suede...The Living Dead
The Men They Couldn't Hang...Australia
Pearl Jam...Elderly Woman
Resque...She Drives My Train
Cracker...Low
Now, I'd have bolded the songs I knew but I didn't know any of them. Some of these songs were not-impossible to locate. Other people on the planet have heard of, for example, Pearl Jam. I actually even own a James CD though not the one I needed for the listed tracks. Some of the songs are not so easily found but I did manage to pull the absolute last holdout (the [International] Resque track) from someone's blog about almost-made-it British indie bands of the late vinyl era. It's here in case anyone's interested. I might have found it quicker if someone had called it "International Resque" instead of just "Resque" but what can you do. Also, the Carter USM thing? I got better results searching for "Unstoppable Sex Machine" instead of "USM". They are also a no-longer-extant never-really-made-it British indie band. However, every band I looked up had a wikipedia entry. (Take that, Encyclopedia Britannica!)
Anyway, yay for my internet sleuthing. Persons who have made it this far may be amused by Jilted John, a particularly amusing track which you can hear (and see charmingly illustrated) on good old American Youtube.
