7 posts tagged “emusic”

Only Partially About the Weather

Oct 2, 2009
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My last post was about my house flooding. Things have dried out and only a few shoes were casualties. The rain is still falling, but the house hasn't flooded again. The front yard has been turned into a swamp a couple of times, though.

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Just a couple more weeks and the southwest monsoon should be over and it'll start to get a little cooler and a lot drier. I'm more than ready.

Sometime late in August eMusic gave a 50 free song "loyalty bonus" to the people who stuck with them through their price restructuring. My monthly subscription refreshed shortly after that, so I had decide which 100 songs I wanted to download (Oh, how to choose? How to choose?). I ended up with quite a bit of garage rock inspired by Homebody's post of Have Love Will Travel. I also downloaded the new Brendan Benson album My Old Familiar Friend.

I normally download complete albums, but there's always one or two credits left over. Those stragglers can be the hardest to decide how to use and many times I just make some wild choice based cover art or song title. That was the case with Blueboy's Jennifer Yeah!. This brings my Jenny/Jennifer song total to 9 songs.

Finally! The ABCs

May 4, 2009
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I'm finally on the last leg of my library listening project. Only the ABC artists to listen to and then I can get back to listening to whatever songs I want. Thank goodness! In an effort not to go back to letters that I've already listened to, I only downloaded B and C artists from eMusic this month.

I put Cherry Twister in my "Save For Later" list long ago after looking over this recommended power pop list on the Rate Your Music website. Bikeride I remembered from Homebody posting some bike songs awhile back. Both The Boy Least Likely To and Brakesbrakesbrakes had songs on KEXP song-of-the-day podcast. I haven't listened to all of them yet, but here are a couple tunes that I kinda like.

February eMusic and Random Songs from the Ps

Feb 1, 2009
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My eMusic subscription renewed and I used up the downloads quite quickly this month. The subscription ends in March and I intended to not renew. As the time draws near, I've started having second thoughts about that. Maybe I will renew with less monthly downloads.

These are the February downloads:

My music library listening project is coming along. I'm up to the Ps and it's taking awhile to get through them. I skip up to the Os and Ns every once in a while.

Still Waiting...

Nov 30, 2008
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Well, all the rumors and paranoia on Thursday turned out to be nothing...and still nothing is happening. I can't figure it out. The weekend turned out very nice - around here, at least. I decided to get a haircut on Saturday. Since Thailand is supposedly on the verge of economic collapse and/or civil insurgency, I thought I'd might as well look nice for it. The stylist asked me if I was going home for Christmas. It's not likely unless someone can get the airports open.

Things seem normal enough in the neighborhood. I walked to the gym this morning and there was a bit less traffic than usual, but that's about it. The King's Birthday is on Friday and businesses are making preparations for that. There are always a ton of lights put up for the King's Birthday. It's nice since it also makes it seem a little Christmasy.

My eMusic subscription renewed so I downloaded some albums that have been recommended and spent the day listening to new music.

Music Aggravation

Oct 18, 2008
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I have a difficult time understanding the music industry. I like listening to music. I want to legally buy music and have money go to the artists. Why does that have to be difficult? Why does it depend on where I live?

Last night I went to eMusic to download the new album from The Rosebuds. When I tried to log in I got a message that eMusic is not available in my area. Huh? I've been a subscriber since December and now they're not available? I know this isn't eMusic's idea - just some annoying edict from the music industry. I was really worked up about the whole thing. My subscription doesn't end until March. That's 375 songs!

I furiously did a bunch of searching on the internet and figured out a work around to the whole thing. It's annoying, though. Something that was simple and fun is now a bit of a pain in the neck. I hope Amazon and iTunes don't suddenly decide they can't sell me music because I don't live in the right place.

Not sure about my fave song from the new Rosebuds, but I thought I'd share a song I picked up earlier this month (before eMusic decided they were "unavailable").

06 A Girl Like Me

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eMusic Downloads for July 08

Jul 9, 2008
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There's a weird mix of eMusic this month:

Spooncat! - A band I heard on DJ's muxtape (Thanks!).
No Kids - I think I first heard them on KEXP or Pitchfork (not sure).
Sing-Sing - They had a free song on http://music.download.com/ that I liked.
Cat Empire - This band was a last.fm recommendation.
Stars - I had a couple of free mp3s from their latest album, so I thought I'd check out their older stuff.
Vampire Weekend - got the A-Punk mp3 from KEXP (and liked it), so I downloaded the album when it finally got to eMusic.

eMusic July 2008

A lot of my downloads were based on free mp3s, so that marketing ploy must be working (at least in my case).

y downloads were based on free mp3s, so I guess that's working as a marketing pl

eMusic Downloads for June 2008

Jun 17, 2008
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Buying good music in Bangkok is practically impossible. The ability to buy music online has been one of the greatest things! Of course, I could download it illegally, but then I feel guilty listening to it...it's weird. Anyway, I subscribed to eMusic in December 2007 and with a inadvertent click of a button ended up with a "Premium Account". Really, way more music than I need each month, but I'll keep it for the year. Usually my monthly downloads end up in my Last.fm top artists, at least for a week. These are the downloads for June '08...