You know, I’ve been using this eMusic service for about three or four months now. (I won’t link to them, because, well, why bother.) Basically, they had this deal where if you paid $10 a month, you could download as much of their music as you want.
I like what he has to say about how he relates to music, too. I got into the music-listening thing (or rather, the actively-seeking-out-new-music thing) pretty late in the game, compared to most people, and I fall much more into the gatherer mode of music, then whatever the alternative might be.
Emusic was just what I needed to help me find all kinds of different music that I had no idea that I liked. Oh well. Good thing my flatmate has more music than god. And we have a strung-together home network thing.
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Really long??? REALLY L… Yeah, I do go on a bit sometimes. ;) Thanks for linking to that over there. I’m still kinda irked about it, but I’m not so much irked at emusic as just at the state of online music in general. But I’m sure I’ll say more and more and more about it as oppurtunities present themselves.
What’s cool though is that I got that Decemberists CD I ordered in the mail a few days after I ordered it and they included a personally signed business card with my name on it saying thanks. Which is sorta why I’m all into supporting small acts and not s’much the big ones.
And in other news, I FINISHED A BOOK LAST NIGHT!!! It’s a-mazing. I’ve really been doing a lot of reading-without-finishing lately. Problem is this book wasn’t even that good. Called Reach by… some guy who was an astronaut at some point, just a sci-fi novel. Ih.
i’m glad to be able to turn someone on to the decemberists. they’re (in my opinion) the best local band here in my hometown. they’re quite good live, too. but do they get played on the radio? on the LOCAL radio here? oh no. oh no no.
THAT is the problem with today’s music industry, i think, in a nutshell.
if it’ll all fit in one single shell, that’s the what of it, for sure. It’s ridiculous that we’ve got a… that there are so many people, just SO MANY PEOPLE, and so many places, and everywhere you go in this country you’re going to hear pretty much the same thing on the radio. Freakin’ RIDICULOUS.
Can you imagine how cool it would be… just how amazing, if you could go for a drive, like a road trip, cross a few states, and every time your radio cut to static and you switched to something else you’d find a whole new variety? If “local music community” could mean that everywhere radio stations broadcast music made by the local music community? The degree to which that would make this whole country better, to me, is boggling.
Can you imagine, “Man, I was driving from Maryland to Ohio, and somewhere in Pennsylvania there was the coolest couple of songs the likes of which I’ve never heard anywhere… that whole west PA music scene must be amazing. You gotta drive through there sometime.”
EXACTLY, EXACTLY, EXACTLY!