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Apr. 10th, 2010 01:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lenora_roseI kinda broke some of my resolution about what books and CDs I was allowed to buy.
On receiving yet another notification from Amazon that the Jim Moray album I ordered BOXING DAY is still not available*, I finally just wandered about online until I found an honest MP3 seller and bought it that way. I thought it would mean losing the bonus track; apparently not. They attached it to the last song per standard (I wonder if you'd get the secret bonus track on Sweet England, which is the only case I know of of having a genuinely *hidden* track. Not curious enough to download an album I own, though.) It's as good as the songs I'd listened to online suggested; I was intentionally not listening to several so I'd have something to discover.
Along with 4 other songs of his (from singles, etc).
And two June Tabor Albums (One I used to own on a cassette that was destroyed, one I never had), plus two singles.
And a handful of tracks from:
Nightwish - the bonus tracks on newer versions of albums I already own, grr. I only wish they'd *had* While your Lips are Still Red under any name.
Spiers and Boden, since Jon Boden's new solo album is seriously fabulous, if a bit apocalyptic, and those who made it say Bellowhead rocked the folk fest
Rose Kemp: Maddy Prior's daughter, and not remotely of the same musical style.
The punchline, for me at least, is I'd refused to order it from one of the companies in the UK that would mail it out to me, because if I did, I'd want to order other British folk albums I'm having trouble getting here. And I wasn't supposed to.
It's funny; it didn't feel like cheating. Because MP3s aren't *really* like buying the album. I seem to have imprinted on the physical thing being necessary. Even though I paid. Even though they all play just fine on the MP3 player.
I also pushed the used book limits, picking up two books on pure trade-in that weren't on the list (McHugh's China Mountain Zhang, which would have been on that list if I'd thought of it at the time, for one), but there, no money traded hands. That involves cheating less, and spending less - but it feels even more like breaking the resolution than paying for MP3s.
It makes me wonder how much of it is all about the physical object, and why *should* I treasure the physical thing so much? Desire to possess the physical object feels more greedy than simply wanting the song or the story available to appreciate and peruse.
*This actually isn't a total surprise. The main distributor who got albums in to Canada from the UK went belly up, and a lot of others are scrambling still to pick up the pieces. Jim Moray himself apparently had a different distributor problem. But. If I ask at a store, they say no, they can't order it in. Amazon had it listed as effectively available when I ordered it, and for at least two months after. I'm of the opinion that anything I ask them to order from the UK that's remotely as obscure will no doubt end up the same.
On receiving yet another notification from Amazon that the Jim Moray album I ordered BOXING DAY is still not available*, I finally just wandered about online until I found an honest MP3 seller and bought it that way. I thought it would mean losing the bonus track; apparently not. They attached it to the last song per standard (I wonder if you'd get the secret bonus track on Sweet England, which is the only case I know of of having a genuinely *hidden* track. Not curious enough to download an album I own, though.) It's as good as the songs I'd listened to online suggested; I was intentionally not listening to several so I'd have something to discover.
Along with 4 other songs of his (from singles, etc).
And two June Tabor Albums (One I used to own on a cassette that was destroyed, one I never had), plus two singles.
And a handful of tracks from:
Nightwish - the bonus tracks on newer versions of albums I already own, grr. I only wish they'd *had* While your Lips are Still Red under any name.
Spiers and Boden, since Jon Boden's new solo album is seriously fabulous, if a bit apocalyptic, and those who made it say Bellowhead rocked the folk fest
Rose Kemp: Maddy Prior's daughter, and not remotely of the same musical style.
The punchline, for me at least, is I'd refused to order it from one of the companies in the UK that would mail it out to me, because if I did, I'd want to order other British folk albums I'm having trouble getting here. And I wasn't supposed to.
It's funny; it didn't feel like cheating. Because MP3s aren't *really* like buying the album. I seem to have imprinted on the physical thing being necessary. Even though I paid. Even though they all play just fine on the MP3 player.
I also pushed the used book limits, picking up two books on pure trade-in that weren't on the list (McHugh's China Mountain Zhang, which would have been on that list if I'd thought of it at the time, for one), but there, no money traded hands. That involves cheating less, and spending less - but it feels even more like breaking the resolution than paying for MP3s.
It makes me wonder how much of it is all about the physical object, and why *should* I treasure the physical thing so much? Desire to possess the physical object feels more greedy than simply wanting the song or the story available to appreciate and peruse.
*This actually isn't a total surprise. The main distributor who got albums in to Canada from the UK went belly up, and a lot of others are scrambling still to pick up the pieces. Jim Moray himself apparently had a different distributor problem. But. If I ask at a store, they say no, they can't order it in. Amazon had it listed as effectively available when I ordered it, and for at least two months after. I'm of the opinion that anything I ask them to order from the UK that's remotely as obscure will no doubt end up the same.
