Electric Josh

So this weekend I finally got around to driving down to the record store to get that Decemberists album referred to a week or two ago. This was at Newbury Comics, which is actually a decent local(-ish) record store. It nevertheless took me about ten minutes to locate the album. (One would think that finding the D section in an alphabetically sorted shelf would be easy, but one would be confounded if he didn't know ahead of time that there were several different such alphabetic sequences spread across the store, none necessarily contiguous.) It was seventeen friggin dollars, so out I went without a new CD. The one extra catchy song has started fading from my head well enough that I can get work done and actually carry on conversations with people, so I figured I could get home without melting down, and wasn't unpleasantly surprised in that regard. I headed over to the iTunes music store (didn't even have to leave the house), which of course has thirty-second snippets of all of their songs, and just as soon as I manage to test some iTunes DRM-removal software I might even buy it from Apple. Someone remind me why the music industry is in trouble.
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