So I decided to assuage my downloaders guilt today and bought the new They Might Be Giants album from an independent store. I get in the car and immediately notice the cracked CD case, I just paid $17 w/tax for this thing and it’s broken. Then it takes me about 5 minutes just to get that stupid sticker off the edge of the case. That’s it. From now on I only buy digital. There’s nothing special in the liner notes anyhow..just a bunch of pretty pictures. For $9.99 I could have avoided all that crap.
August 5th, 2004 at 12:20 pm
You can bypass all the filth-men by purchasing and downloading the new TMBG directly from the band. I thought that was immensely cool. $18 from a store, $9.99 from iTunes, or $9.99 from the artists themselves? It’s an easy choice.
August 5th, 2004 at 2:21 pm
Yeah, I know. But I happened to be going to the store to put posters up for a show I’m involved with, so figured I’d give them some support. I do want to actually buy more TMBG stuff and will go digital with the band directly then.