Buying Music

a masterpiece, bought

Neil Young’s 1974 album On the Beach is easily one of my top five albums of all time. (I can somewhat confidently identify two others that are in the top five, but we’ll give them their own posts sometime.)

the rut

Posts have been a little sparse lately. When they are happening, they’re focused on either the past or some vaguely music-related topic rather than albums and concerts.

Why? First, I’ve hardly bought any new albums this year, which didn’t completely register until I started compiling…

adventures in mobile music listening

I’m generally pretty on board with modern technologies, but the concept of physically storing music in a phone still seems weird. Then again, I’m one who still buys used to buy a whole lot of CDs, even when no one did anymore. So it was exciting times cloud-based…

the spotify experience

After the initial bewilderment and aimless searching, I realized that getting the most out of Spotify would require a little help from other websites — namely, places that could recommend new music for me to explore (unless there’s some sort of internal public playlist feature on there…

and bonus

In the digital-music age, I was a still-buying-CDs holdout for a long time. In the olden days, I’d meet my friend at the Union Square Virgin Megastore and spend hours browsing the rows letter by letter. Music recommendations were exchanged, purchases were debated, concert memories were remembered, new…