Music

I love buying music on itunes. It's so frickin easy and fast. I just went through a recent wave of clicking the "buy" button on lot of stuff in rapid succession. You should try it. It's fun. Anyway, I thought I'd post what's new in my possession and if you'd like a listen, well, you just let me know.

Rufus Wainwright (man I love this guy's music) Recent Album Purchases:
~Release the Starts (2007)
~Alright, Already [Live In Montreal] (2005)
~Poses (2002)
~Want One (2003)
~Want Two (2004)

Spoon Recent Album Purchases:
~Girls Can Tell
~Kill the Moonlight

Billy Bragg & Wilco Recent Album Purchases:
~Mermaid Avenue
~Mermaid Avenue Vol. 2

Radiohead Recent Album Purchases:
~Rainbows

Arrested Development Recent Album Purchases:
~Since the Last Time

And 'yes', Arrested Development did put out a new album. It's decent. There are probably 3 songs I really like a lot. If I fall in love with a new song on an album I just bought, I tend to listen to it very frequently. A few such songs from these recent albums for me are:

~"Sanssouci" by Rufus Wainwright on Release the Stars
~"The Way We Get By" by Spoon on Kill the Moonlight
~"All I Need" by Radiohead on Rainbows

The Spoon purchases were brought on by watching Stranger Than Fiction last night. It's Will Ferrell's drama where someone is narrating his life. The movie was actually much much more than I expected. And I really enjoyed it. It might have even moved me. I actually had a Spoon album from a friend (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga). I've listened to it maybe 5 times. I liked it alright. But anyway, "The Way We Get By" was in the movie. So today I looked up the soundtrack. I also really enjoyed the song Will Ferrell played on the guitar in the movie. It was also a really sweet point in the movie, so that added to my interest. Turns out it's called "(I'd Go the) Whole Wide World." It's played and sung by Will Ferrell in the movie. The rendition on the soundtrack, though, is by Wreckless Eric, whoever the crap that is. I read a bit more and found that it's originally a song by The Monkees, so that's the version I bought.

From my four stellar years of studying French, I knew 'sans' means 'without', so I looked up what 'sanssouci" meant. It means carefree, if you didn't know already. Wikipedia taught me more in the process

No really, it's up to you

You may have heard already. Radiohead is releasing a new album soon. The relevant detail is that they never re-signed with EMI and have not signed with a new record label. What does that mean? For starters, they are distributing and selling the album themselves over the internet. Pretty revolutionary step in the music industry! A step that record labels must be hoping fails.

What makes this even more interesting is the fact that you are able to name your price for the download! Did I mention this is a double-disk album? And did I mention that you can pay $0.01 for it if you want? I'm almost too excited to even consider what I will enter as my purchase price. I mean, on the one hand, I don't want to be a dick and pay a penny. On the other hand, would I get a copy of it from a friend anyway?

buy it here:
http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex.html

read some nytimes commentary here:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/01/radiohead-album-price-tag-its-up-to-you/?hp

Pretty exciting stuff!