A House Divided or I Just Quibble Over Music Stores

[sisabet]

I am a woman torn between two stores. On the one hand there is my teeny little Spy Records store all the way down Tates Creek Drive. Way decent selection playing when you walk in - fantastic rec's and really thorough used section. I love this store - anything I want, they will order it for me.

But, since I moved, it is on the other end of town. This means it is really easy for me to restrict myself to the once a month visit. Cause I have to support my independent music shop, yo.

So yesterday I stopped by and bought The White Stripes' "Elephant" used (cause when do you ever see The White Stripes in a used bin?) and The Tragically Hip's "Live Between Us" (because of sweetestdrain's "Scared" a Mal vid that premiered at VVC. I love that vid. And that song).

Except I still have music purchases I *have* to make this month. I don't have Kanye West's new album and that really needs to be corrected. And the soundtrack to Elizabethtown is coming out and I *have* to have that immediately. Like today. Like right now. Seriously - I can't believe Cameron Crowe filmed a movie in the town I always thought of as mine (cause when you are a little kid and a town up the interstate from you is called your nametown, you are gonna feel possessive) and the soundtrack has My Morning Jacket (locals!)on it and Sun Kil Moon singing "Kentucky Woman" and Bill Monroe and I just... I must have this. NOW. Not to mention new stuff from North Mississippi Allstars and Death Cab for Cutie and what is the deal with all of this coming out all at the same time? And there is some kind of Bob Dylan thing going on as well cause everytime I walk into Starbucks now, they are playing something by him. Not that I am complaining - I just feel really out of touch.

So I am gonna go to my more centrally located independent music store for all of this. Well, not all of this. Some of this. I feel as if they have seduced me away from Spy Records with their seductive email newsletters and free compilation CDs and fancy schmancy in-store shows and swanky website (http://www.cdcentralmusic.com ) and I am just a little whore for it all. Cause really - they are so appealing to me - I cannot help it.

Also? They are taking up money for the New Orleans Musicians Relief fund (http://www.nomrf.org) and that just gets to me. I am putty for this store.

And it isn't really cheating if I still make a point to spend half of my music money at Spy Records - is it? And they don't have a website or email list and if it wasn't for CD Central emailing me every other day - I'd be hopelessly behind on everything. As it is - I am barely able to keep up with today (and I still need to find out about that Bob Dylan thing... is there a PBS special coming soon? Is that what it is?) so it isn't as if they aren't giving back to me in spades.

And, and, and! CD Central is just down the street from me, practically. And I have to have Elizabethtown. I have to have it.

So just ignore me in the corner - we should all have my problems. I am very thankful that I never need give my hardwon music money to Best Buy or Walmart or the like again. This is me being thankful.

Message for pipsqueaky: Citizen Cope is playing tomorrow at Headliners. I think it is about $15 a ticket and it is probably ridiculous to even bring it up on a school night and all, but hey - let's talk.


Message for anyone in my area: Interested in seeing Peter Mulvey 10/6 in Louisville or 10/7 in Covington? Cause, hey! Peter Mulvey. Live. Like right there. And he sings! And plays guitar! Right in front of you.

Comments

[brynnmck.livejournal.com]

PETER MULVEY YAY. I was just wondering this morning when he (and Jeffrey Foucault, and Kris Delmhorst) might be swinging through town again.

[f1renze.livejournal.com]

Yay Hip yay! My other favorite (from the same album) is "Ahead by a Century", and sweetestdrain might vid it soon, OMG.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Starbucks put out an album of Dylan recorded live waaaay early in his career, and the critics are raving about it.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Okay - see that makes sense. I am glad you pay attention to what all is going on so I don't have to.

Wait...Starbucks put out the album? Would it be evil of me to buy music at Starbucks? Cause theoretically that would be taking money away from the local independent shops and while I have rationalized spending my coffee money at Starbucks cause out of all the places to spend my coffee money in Kentucky, they are probably the best/most progressive - but my music money?

Is it exclusively a Starbucks thing? Maybe one of the two music shops I like will have it used... cause I mean, I found The White Stripes used yesterday. That means someone out there either got tired of it or didn't like it to begin with or really needed rent money. That can happen with this disc as well. Maybe.

Anyway this is all moot cause I am buying the Elizabethtown soundtrack today! YAY!

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

It is exclusively being sold through Starbucks, which I can only interpret as Dylan once again deciding to deliberately fuck with the heads of his old hippie fanbase.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Dude - did you see the Victoria's Secret thing? Cause I thought I was hallucinating that.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

No, they didn't show it over here, but I heard about it.

[ficbyzee.livejournal.com]

The Bob Dylan thing is a double-disc soundtrack to the new Martin Scoresese documentary about his life, called No Direction Home. I have the set, it's all rare bootlegs that were previously unreleased. Some tracks are better than others, but it has wee young Bob Dylan singing I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow. So totally worth buying, imo.