Friday, January 05, 2007

trial and error

http://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifi've noticed that the last few times i have been able to listen to all or most of an album before buying it, i have quickly decided not to buy it at all. i thoroughly support the idea of a band being brave enough to have the entire thing out there for people to hear, but really there's no way i am going to buy something lousy just because the people behind it are unusually nice. so here's the question: is it possible that i just can't properly see the value in this music because i had to pay nothing for it? i don't think so. i do have a few free compilations on the hard drive somewhere, and one or two of them is truly specacular.

i might make particular mention of starving but happy. i have the original starving but happy compilation and follow-up starving but happier. it was a net release but i believe a label later picked it up; it seemsthat i am correct.

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