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Also, I finally signed up for eMusic so that I could catch up on all the music I've been missing. So far I've downloaded some Colin Hay, Free Design, Edith Piaf (by special request from Liz since we recently watched* La Vie En Rose), and to my delight the new Doughty album is up there so I grabbed some of that, and will grab the rest when my download credits renew. Anything you guys think I should be listening to? Oh, we also recently bought the Vampire Weekend CD, which makes me feel like a bit of a corporate whore since it's such the Official Hot New Band You Must Own(TM) right now, and the Ingrid Michaelson CD, which has some very good songs and one ridiculously great one (the single "The Way I Am"). We also obtained** the fantastic Peter Gabriel cover of Book Of Love.***
Yay! New music! Now I just need to stop only listening to podcasts on my iPod so that I can actually hear some of these new tunes...
*And by "watched," I mean "Liz watched and I slept through." The parts I was awake through seemed good enough, though.
**This song is on the soundtrack of the American remake of "Shall We Dance." All the online music stores have this album as an "entire album only" purchase; needless to say, the rest of the disc looks like crap ("Sway" covered by the Pussycat Dolls? I'll pay you NOT make me download that...). Luckily, I was able to find it via the internets -- and not even through bittorrent! A Genesis fansite had the mp3 for download.
***Oddly enough, this song has also just been covered by Mike Doughty. In an annoying rehash of footnote number 2, this track is ALSO only available by buying the entire album from iTunes. I'm hoping that in a few months they'll unlock it so I can get it for a buck.
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I've been a little big on Brett Dannen recently. Worth checking out if you can stream it for free.
Just checked eMusic -- they've got the Brett Dennen album "So Much More." I'll put a few tracks in my queue.
eMusic is kind of a middle ground between that model and the iTunes/Amazon model. You pay a monthly fee to eMusic, and in return you get a certain number of downloads a month. In my case, that's the lowest level ($10/mo. for 30 downloads; the other tiers are $15 for 50 and $20 for 75). This music is yours to keep even if you cancel your service. If I use all my downloads in a month, it ends up being something like $.33/track, which beats the pants off iTunes. The tradeoff is that eMusic won't have the Top 40 type stuff; of course, if you don't care about Top 40, this isn't really much of a downside.
In practice, I will probably continue to use iTunes and Amazon (which sells DRM-free mp3s cheaper than iTunes, by the way) as well for the occasional impulse buy. And I don't find the iTunes DRM to be overly onerous.
I remember back when Fountains sent Dewdrops a demo CD. That was before they became ultra famous. As in... before they did the soundtrack to that faux-Beatles movie and got all "wanted" by the industry.
And I'm right there with you on La Vie en rose. I slept through it too. Or rather I illegally downloaded NintenDS games through it. Same difference. Beautiful voice, great acting, but lousy movie.