On iTunes and the Delicious Pleasure of Copyright Infringement

After a long day of shopping with S., we headed back to her apartment for some downtime, shopping reflections (e.g., was this a good purchase? oh hell yes, girl, you look fabulous!), and some music sharing.

S. has always been several paces ahead of me in the world of music. She's got terrific street cred--working with musicians, working in radio, and just being an all-around cool chick. Needless to say, her CD collection is sick, and her iPod is similarly, well, stacked. Since we were too nervous and ignorant to risk hooking my MegPod into her system, we decided to go old-school and just let me make a mix from her music and load it onto my computer later.

hush, hush, keep it down now . . .

Heaven. I hadn't trolled through a friend's music in a long time. It was like when you made a new friend in high school or college and you reached the intimate point of sharing tapes or CDs. All those untapped resources. Drrrrroooool.

Because I've been following S.'s tastes for many years now and have even branched off on my own, I had most of her new stuff, but she had some nasty tracks from our days in college when we'd go to the trashy clubs and dance to 80s music or just chill out in our dorm rooms and listen to random music. Songs like "Send Me an Angel," or tracks from the Happy Mondays (whatever happened to that tape? Twistin' my melon, man), songs from the Singles soundtrack (I'm going to sleep, and I'm goin' there alone!), random one-hit wonders like "'Voices Carry," and songs I always forget about like Supertramp's, "The Logical Song." I was a kid in the candy store. I was also way deep in nostalgia.


Makes sense now how my parents used to put on their Beatles albums and sigh with content. They weren't down with my Duran Duran or my Billy Idol. For as much as I love the Arctic Monkeys, the National, Snowden, or what have you, I'm still at my best (or worst!?) when I'm bopping around my apartment listening to "Round and Round." (Ohhhh, that might need to be a late submission to GSR's new blog!! Great songs by bad bands!)

Geek out with me, people.