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Of cheese and WinMX
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audiovile took me to dinner at Artisanal last night, as a generally lovingly pookiful thing to do. My God, It's Full Of Cheese. Well, this I knew, because I'd been once before; but I'd really wanted to go back. There was fondue and there was garlic sausage and there was a cheese tasting plate with matched wines, and there was a fantastic dead-dark chocolate cake with bitter orange ice cream at the end. Oh my yes.
Upon arriving home, while digesting, I opted that we have a similarly pookiful music share evening rather than drinking the CoH kool-aid. Not only is it something we haven't done in ages, but I'd been assembling a list of stuff brought to me by Radio Paradise that I wanted to play for him. Therefore, fire up the old WinMX...
And then there was a lot of crashing down. Because I haven't used WinMX for many many months, as in "before the great file sharing wars". The last time I used it, it was like unto a packed convention hall with everyone bustling around ganking the obscurities they were hunting for. Now, it's like Soviet fucking Russia, with a bare handful of shadowy characters meeting furtively in alleyways, constantly looking over their shoulders for SMERSH or whatever. And they can't hook you up with what you need anyways.
Well, says the record industry with condescension on their smug fat faces, use an approved outlet like Napster or iTunes. Steve, Lawful Good boy that he is, has both of these things...but if it ain't mainstream, you have a high probability of achieving "shit out of luck" status. We could find only two songs from my list of ten, and of the rest, a handful had the twenty-second samples on Amazon (not that those are usually worth a squirt of warm piss), but the rest I couldn't even get a clip of. So, bah and feh, and fuck off record industry, because I'm not dropping $15 on a CD because I like one song off it; let me taste more or I'm not buying.
(And if anyone can toss me a link for "Cold Black Heart" by Shawn Mullins, that'd be great, kthxbye.)
audiovile took me to dinner at Artisanal last night, as a generally lovingly pookiful thing to do. My God, It's Full Of Cheese. Well, this I knew, because I'd been once before; but I'd really wanted to go back. There was fondue and there was garlic sausage and there was a cheese tasting plate with matched wines, and there was a fantastic dead-dark chocolate cake with bitter orange ice cream at the end. Oh my yes.Upon arriving home, while digesting, I opted that we have a similarly pookiful music share evening rather than drinking the CoH kool-aid. Not only is it something we haven't done in ages, but I'd been assembling a list of stuff brought to me by Radio Paradise that I wanted to play for him. Therefore, fire up the old WinMX...
And then there was a lot of crashing down. Because I haven't used WinMX for many many months, as in "before the great file sharing wars". The last time I used it, it was like unto a packed convention hall with everyone bustling around ganking the obscurities they were hunting for. Now, it's like Soviet fucking Russia, with a bare handful of shadowy characters meeting furtively in alleyways, constantly looking over their shoulders for SMERSH or whatever. And they can't hook you up with what you need anyways.
Well, says the record industry with condescension on their smug fat faces, use an approved outlet like Napster or iTunes. Steve, Lawful Good boy that he is, has both of these things...but if it ain't mainstream, you have a high probability of achieving "shit out of luck" status. We could find only two songs from my list of ten, and of the rest, a handful had the twenty-second samples on Amazon (not that those are usually worth a squirt of warm piss), but the rest I couldn't even get a clip of. So, bah and feh, and fuck off record industry, because I'm not dropping $15 on a CD because I like one song off it; let me taste more or I'm not buying.
(And if anyone can toss me a link for "Cold Black Heart" by Shawn Mullins, that'd be great, kthxbye.)
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