Music Coming out of the Wazzo
Jan. 27th, 2007 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maxcelcatI'm a prodigious consumer of music, which could explain the 420+ CD collection. I need new music, well, all the time. Note to self: probably time to start listening to the radio again. But then, JJJ sucks like a 1000 watt vacuum cleaner.
Anyway, my ability to acquire new music is somewhat hampered by a) lack of money and b) moral qualms about downloading people's music. Especially the little bands I'm into being so broke to begin with. Even some big bands need supporters. Plus the fact that the stuff I'm into is usually so obscure I can't find it online. Plus actually knowing a number of muso's well enough to say hello to - Justin Haezlwood and David Thrussell spring to mind - it'd be like stealing from my friends.
Anyway, all the same, I decided to beat problem a) by overcoming moral dilemma b) with the following rationalization:
If I only download music by obscenely successful artists, I won't feel so bad.
On this basis, I've acquired Led Zeppelin's entire recorded output via a bit torrent. Hey, they've sold 600 Million albums, I think they'll cope. I'm also downloading most of Zappa's material as well... Although... Zappa is a bit hard, being still a bit alternative and underground... But... But... I have bought at least five of his albums over the years. And he's not starving to death (Nor are Dweezil, Moon Unit, Amet Rodan or Diva Muffin)... Well, he can't starve to death, he died in the early nineties... Argh! Brain hurty!
(BTW, I've listened to quite a deal of Led Zep over the years, and I'm still trying to work out what all the fuss is about. Will work my way through their albums and see if I "Get It".)
At the same time, I've just ripped about ten of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evildoom_bunny's classical music collection. Not to mention the device I've acquired which should allow me to convert my records to MP3, thus making them more accessible. Hmmmm... Five hours of Laurie Anderson's "United States Live"...
So soon I will be rolling in new music, which will hopefully take me several months to process.
Anyway, my ability to acquire new music is somewhat hampered by a) lack of money and b) moral qualms about downloading people's music. Especially the little bands I'm into being so broke to begin with. Even some big bands need supporters. Plus the fact that the stuff I'm into is usually so obscure I can't find it online. Plus actually knowing a number of muso's well enough to say hello to - Justin Haezlwood and David Thrussell spring to mind - it'd be like stealing from my friends.
Anyway, all the same, I decided to beat problem a) by overcoming moral dilemma b) with the following rationalization:
If I only download music by obscenely successful artists, I won't feel so bad.
On this basis, I've acquired Led Zeppelin's entire recorded output via a bit torrent. Hey, they've sold 600 Million albums, I think they'll cope. I'm also downloading most of Zappa's material as well... Although... Zappa is a bit hard, being still a bit alternative and underground... But... But... I have bought at least five of his albums over the years. And he's not starving to death (Nor are Dweezil, Moon Unit, Amet Rodan or Diva Muffin)... Well, he can't starve to death, he died in the early nineties... Argh! Brain hurty!
(BTW, I've listened to quite a deal of Led Zep over the years, and I'm still trying to work out what all the fuss is about. Will work my way through their albums and see if I "Get It".)
At the same time, I've just ripped about ten of
evildoom_bunny's classical music collection. Not to mention the device I've acquired which should allow me to convert my records to MP3, thus making them more accessible. Hmmmm... Five hours of Laurie Anderson's "United States Live"...So soon I will be rolling in new music, which will hopefully take me several months to process.
