Ok, you know the deal. You take a flyer on a cd and it's got one or two great songs. I'm talking songs that seriously get stuck in your head and have all the elements that you look for in music. Songs you can not do without. But.... But the rest of the record bites ass big time. I mean you can't stand having the ************ing thing in your house. What the hell do you do? This happens at alarming rate. Well at least to me. My current offender Mia Doi Todd. Past sinners include the Stone Temple Pilots.
Sob uncontrollably for 3 days. Then, I sell it back or hide it somewhere in my room so I can forget I spent money on it.
This sounds like Paul Weller's post-Jam formula for making music. "Illumination" is just the latest culprit.
I own roughly 50 million cds that fit this description. I can't bear to throw out any cds, though, even the really awful ones without a redeeming song or two. So I move 'em to the bottom of the stack. If people look through my cds and question my usually impeccable taste, though...I lie. Outrageously. por ejemplo: Friend: I can't believe you own this Stone Temple Pilots cd. Me: I just own it for the hidden track. Friend: What hidden track? Me: You know. That Billy Strayhorn number, sung in Urdu with Lucinda Williams doing backup vocals and Dave Grohl pimping out his drumming per usual. That was just an example, though. 'Cause it's not like I own a STP cd.
I download most of the songs on the CD frist and if I really like them, I might buy the CD. But then agan, I have 2400 songs downloaded, so I don't buy many CDs.
Yeah, and if radio was the way it used to be, you'd have had a chance to hear multiple cuts from the cd on the air before you purchased. Or, if you only heard one song, you'd know the rest really blew.
I just hold onto it, maybe burn the songs I like on a disc to play if you throw a party. Btw, I'd like to nominate Jesus Jones' "Doubt" as the poster cd for this thread.
to avoid this (it was happening too much and i am but a poor college student), i normally d/led songs to see if i like it, if i do i'll usually make a half hearted attempt to buy it
Keep the CD. It's always good for a laugh. Plus I like the High Fidelity Autobiographical concept -- fo some reason at the time, you felt compelled to buy the CD. Sometimes I buy a CD and at the time think it's just decent. Then I go back a couple of years later when my tastes have changed to find I had been sitting on a goldmine. Who knows, you may even be in the mood to hear a really crappy song sometime. I can't imagine when, but you don't want to live with that kind of guilt.
I can't either. Getting rid of Sugar's "Beaster" EP was a big step for me. At least I think I got rid of it. I sure meant to.
and you never know when folks are getting all boozy and sentimental, that Celine Dion song might be just the ticket.