Physical Music Purchased:
- Bill Summers & Summers Heat, Jam the Box! LP ($2.00)
- Cool Breeze, East Point’s Greatest Hit LP ($7.50)
- Dam-Funk, Toeachizown CD ($14.95)
- Ghostface, Ghostdini The Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City CD ($9.99)
- James Ferraro, Citrac LP ($24.98)
- Jerry Butler, Ice on Ice LP ($5.00)
- Labtekwon, Ghetto Dai Lai Lama V. 777 CD ($3.99)
- Nas, Illmatic: 10th Anniversary Edition LP ($4.00)
- New Order/Bronski Beat, “Blue Order Mega-Mix” 12-Inch ($2.00)
- Ryan Leslie, Transition CD ($9.99)
- Various Artists, Submerge: Depth Charge Three CD ($3.00)
- Various Artists, Unruly Club Classics Vol. III CD ($14.99)
Look at the picture above that awesome but depressing list of all the records and CDs I’ve purchased since last update more than a month ago. My guess is your iPod doesn’t look like that. Funny how a few years ago all iPods looked like that and how now, it’s like staring at DOS or something.
The place I currently work sells used iPods and lots of other stuff and so, I come into daily interaction with new or new-ish (mostly stolen) iPods and just about everyone else has a new or new-ish, much sicker iPod than I and it’s mainly just funny. One thing though, their iPod probably works…which is more than you can say about mine since September 20th.
It has this weird habit of beeping and like working so hard you can kinda feel something inside it vibrate—imagine a steampunk iPod, gears turning, that’s how it feels—and it tells me how it wasn’t connected properly last time and then shuts down. It did this a bunch of times and I kinda just gave up on the thing, so I bought a pack of burned CDs—sooo 2002—and listened to new shit and mixes that way and would occasionally sorta get it to work.
Anyways, as of the past few days, it seems to be back to normal but that means we’re at Brandon’s iPod Year Zero in terms of what was on it that’s now on it or not on it. Because I have this handy little journal, I guess I could update it back to exactly how it was last update but that’d be kinda weird and miss the point of this journal.
The idea for this journal was to touch on the weird synchronicities and contingencies that come up with portable music devices and my listening habits and well right now my shitty-ass iPod is dictating how and what I listen to, so yeah, start over.
With that, I think I’m going to probably just discuss the stuff I added and or took off and stuff in a rant-like paragraph because the explanations for why stuff was removed especially are just kinda boring. It isn’t like all of a sudden say, Goodie Mob’s Soul Food sucked, I just needed a break or something! Alright? Jesus.
