How I buy music

It’s been nearly a year since I confessed to my musical laziness and how any pride I had in my musical taste was being eroded by time, catchy CD compilations, and said laziness.  A year on and Jack Black would still crucify me if I walked into the music shop in High Fidelity; I still listen to ‘Classic’ radio stations on long trips up the coast (though that may change now that I’ve bought an i-pod player thingy that plugs into the cigarette lighter!), and though I haven’t bought any compilation CDs called ‘Music after dark’ I still hum along to the tunes when I hear them on the TV.

So, nothing much has changed in a year except that I’ve bought and downloaded four albums within the last month.  I haven’t bought any music for years, so that’s bordering on problem behaviour for me.  And it all started quite innocently one morning while I was agonising over my jurisprudence assignment.  The 2500 words I had to write were beginning to squeeze out at about a rate of one every ten minutes when I decided a nap on the couch might be in order. 

So I lay on the couch, but rather than take a nap I turned on the TV to watch Sarah Blasko sing something in a lovely voice while wearing a very pretty layered dress and leading a dappled grey horse across a grassy landscape.  And that’s all it took.  Ten minutes later I had downloaded her latest album ‘What the sea wants, the sea will have.’ 

Now, I’m not sure if I like the rest of the album as much as I liked the song with the nice dress and dappled grey horse, but it may grow on me.  And it didn’t stop me from downloading Lily Allen’s ‘Alright, still’ a week later, and “It’s not me, it’s you’ a few days after that.  No regrets there.  I don’t know if I’ve heard anyone speak let alone sing in clichés, without sounding clichéd, but she does it and cracks me up in the process.

Tonight, the second game in the State of Origin is playing on TV and Eddie is abusing the NSW Blues for playing so poorly.  I don’t care who wins.  So, I put my headphones on and hunted around on Audible for something to spend my credit on (Cloudstreet by Tim Winton) and once that was done I popped onto i-tunes and downloaded Gossip’s ‘Music for men’ just because I saw a picture of them recently where Beth Ditto was wearing the most amazing red dress, and I like their lyrics.

So, yeah, that’s how I buy music.