Value Shopping Stereo Wierdo - vintage champagne taste on cheap, stanky beer budget
Location
I live in the midrange!! (Metro Detroit Area)
Interests
Skiing, golf, sailing, reading, weightlifting, spending time with the wife and kids, and of course U
Occupation
Software Development Analyst for a Tax Software Company
Signature
Since I found the XLR jacks, I'm not nearly so unbalanced as I used to be!!
Five (or so) in heavy rotation:
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Mile High Music Festival | Chet Baker - Chet (SACD) | The La's - S/T (Deluxe Edition) Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Roll With You | Eric Clapton - S/T [Deluxe Edition] | Joseph Arthur - Temporary People Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue | Leonard Cohen - The Essential Leonard Cohen | Ryan Adams - Cardinology
Quote:
Originally Posted by Thumper
If you can't say something nice...don't say nothing at all.
It's about the music...if you ever forget that, it's time to reconsider what you're doing.
I'll say it again, one of the things that I really value about services like Rhapsody is that I get to try out some new music prior to buying it. In theory, that ought to result in fewer music purchases...but that's not how it's working out. Truth is, I buy more now because for every album that I wouldn't buy because I listened first, I find 2-3 that I either wouldn't have known about or would have assumed I wasn't interested.
Such is the case with one of my more recent purchases,...
I am lucky enough to be able to listen to music pretty much all day every day at work. Only occasionally, when things get REALLY hairy, do I have to take off the cans (lately the AKG K-81DJ). Of course, I'm not the only one...many of my coworkers do the same thing (well, they don't have the good taste in gear that I have, but oh well... ).
I keep a stack of 60 or so 4.7gb dvd-r's in my cube, with 320K files burned onto them. If you figure your garden variety...
Well, this is my first installment in my new blog. As I stated above, my main objective is to introduce folks to music that they might not find on their own. To this end, I submit for your approval, Babyshambles' newest CD, Shotter's Nation.
Now I don't mind telling you that I thumbed my nose at this one right off the bat. I was never all that crazy about The Libertines, and my first listen to Babyshambles was their (IMHO very weak) first album, on Rhapsody. Plus, let's be frank,...