Hard to believe but Memorial Day Weekend is coming up soon and it
will be the official beginning of summer. Along with the usual gas
price hikes. For vacation plans it's a choice of either Vegas or Mesa
again; I'd really would love to go back out to Seattle and visit
friends there but even in supposed cheaper airfares we still would have
to take about four airplanes through various cities just to get there.
Would love to head to Spokane to see if I can find Isabella's final
resting place and see if the pawnshops would still have those thousands
of bargain cds but it's different now then it was eight years ago.
We're older, grayer and wider than eight years ago.
I commented
on an old bandmate Marvin about trying out for my best friend's band IO,
but the other guys thought that with him being in Muscatine and us up
here it wouldn't be their worth. I'm also sure their song selction of
Sheryl Crow and me refusal to doing her crap also figured into the
decision.
The RS Bargain Hunter Network has no major road trips
coming up right now since the Corsica rusted out, I have no
transportation to get me to Mad City or St Louis or anywhere else so
we'll keep it here for the time being. My car mechanic has been workin
on a replacement car for the past three years and I'll confer with him
on the status of that car. If not, I have to put on my bullshit boots
and wade through the nearest car dealership to which they might actually
give me a good deal on a newer car and maybe I can pay it off with one
easy payment. Maybe then Wells Fargo can get off my ass about updating
my account. Last time I bought a car was Old Purple and my ex picked
that one out but couldn't keep up the payments so it became mine and for
220,000 miles and 12 winters has outlasted every other car I ever had.
But then again I have nothing but old junkers and rebuilt wrecks over
the years.
I did managed to listen to the new Green Day 21st
Century Breakdown and Steve Earle Townes CD over the past couple days
though without a working car and discman, couldn't listen to them in the
car. Liked American Idiot, the new album is all over the place and
goes on too long but it's a decent followup to Idiot. Townes on the
other hand is more uneven than what the reviews give it, Lungs is
radical and the rest pretty much plays it as Earle covered Townes
himself. If you had to choose one of the albums I'd go with the Steve
Earle simply of the fact it sounds better. If the major labels wants to
win back music buyers they should consider staying the hell away from
Chris or Tom Lord Alge's IPOD sounding mixes. Too fucking compressed
and too LOUD. Which has been the biggest problem of CDs of this
decade. Nevertheless look for Green Day to top the Billboard at number
one this week. And of course, yours truly will pick selected songs for
the weekly top ten.
Finally I got a note from a cd buyer who
bought the Jimmie Spheeris 1976 Ports Of The Heart CD and complained
mildly about having to pay 20 bucks to have a copy. And wondered why
the price was so Goll Dang high. I mean she did give me a passing grade
(4 out of 5) as outstanding in getting the Cd to her. It comes down to
supply and demand (the usual bullshit of why gas prices fucking go up
every summer) or the cd being simply hard to find since they made so
many copies. Normally, used cds go from a dollar to seven dollars
(figure in the 3 bucks for shipping and handling Amazon gives us and
it's like getting a new cd without all the wrapper and dogbone sticky).
OOP CDs can go as high as 50 to 100 dollars (it did at one time with
Nancy and Lee's Rhino CD). I priced it at 20 bucks becuz it was hard
to find and that it has not been reissued on CD a second time around
domestic or import. There are Amazon buyers out there that will buy a
cd and then turn around an jack the price up even more (I've seen a
couple buyers who bought my cds and done it-right Mr. Softball?).
Since I bought the CD from a store a hour's drive from here I figured in
a tank of gas just to offset the price and since I've never seen the cd
before I'd priced it as that I would never come across it again. And
to make a bit of profit too, I don't deny that. Certainly I didn't want
to price it at 8 bucks, only to have a amazon record buyer snatched it
out and then relist it at inflated price. Techinally that 20 bucks is
like buying it at FYE or Sam Goody. Plus I wanted to give my cds good
homes.
People like to complain, I should know. And their
comments are duly noted. At the same time I figure this: People have
the right to pick and choose of what they want in their music and if you
really want something, you have to pay the price or wait till a cheaper
cd comes along. For 20 bucks, I'll give them a new jewel case, wrap
bubble wrap around it twice and send it in the mail and hope it gets
there in one piece.
But the supply and demand trick can work for
them too. All she has to do is relist it at 20 bucks on Amazon (or even
more) and I'm sure somebody will come along and buy it. I think she
got a collector's item though. I don't forsee anybody reissing Ports Of
The Heart in the US anytime soon. Jimmie Spheeris was a cult artist
and the major labels don't reissue cult artists anyway. Unless Wounded
Bird or Collectors Choice Music does. Nevertheless, keep the cd in good
shape and resell it and you'll get your money back that way.
Have a good day.
Idiot.
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/05/19/best-buynapster5/
Streaming
might be a part of your life but I can speak for the majority of
bargain hunters that phsyical product still matters. Why the hell Bob
can't see it is beyond me.
Good fucking Grief
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2009/05/19/streaming-vs-ownership/
If
I hear one more fucking thing about CDs being history IM GOING TO
PUKE. Streaming WILL be a PART of YOUR future, not MINE. What do you
do when you have fucking dialup and have no DSL in the rural areas? YOU
CANT HEAR THE FUCKING STREAMING ANYWAY.
If I hear one more
fucking thing about the real thing being history, I'll give you the
finger and fart in your direction. Why is it that there are folk that
want to trumpet the end of music as we know it in favor of a virtual
jukebox that is like radio if you don't want to hear the damn song.
That is why I buy 45s, albums etc. To get to hear the music that I
WANT. Great let's us all download and not have to have product in our
hands, get a new computer when it crashes and rebuy all over again. What
in the MUTHERFUCK?!?
I will not be a part of the future cuz my
time won't allow me to experience it full dead on before they get the
kinks out and elimate cds and whatnot. If we are so goddammed gung ho
on perserving the music we grew up with, will we get to hear Neal Ford's
45s on the net? Soul Brothers Six? The Godz (Both ESP Disk and
Casablanca?) or Neil Frederick I Belong To You? Bill Amesbury? The
Brains? Give me the definite answers so I can trade ALL of my music for
the virtual jukebox of endless music at my fingertips. Give me a site
that I can hear ALL of The Townedgers mutherfukker and I'll sell
everything and embrace this so called wave of the future.
Till
then, piss off. We're not going to get everything that is promised.
The future is bright indeed Bob. Quit staring at the bright future,
it's making you go blind.
And bob sez
If you can hear everything you want whenever you want, why do you need to own it?
I say
Becuz
the net doesn't have EVERYTHING I want to hear. Townedgers!
Paraphernalia! Bill Amesbury! Which is why we got to own it to hear it
dumbass. It's not all going to be out there. Which is why the
bargainhunter goes find the forgotten song. Till then, prove me
wrong. The net will be a way of life in our next lives should we
return to this cesspool we call Earth or streaming will be a way of
life.
Glad to know you're on the up and coming. Leave me with the tried and true.
