It blows my mind to think how disconnected people are from their actual physical music today. People are just so set on getting the music they want as quick as possible with little to no hassle. Right now if I wanted to I could go onto the Itunes store and download any record from the tons of records they have and be listening to it in the next ten minutes, but that just seems wrong to me. People are missing out on so much from not going out into record stores and buying music. There is the satisfaction of finding that one record, or even the personal interactions or friendships that occur from record shopping. Sure the Itunes store or last fm or Pandora can do some sort of mathematical calculation based on beats per minute or artists selected that can recommend you other music you might like, but if you only search and find your music online you are missing out on a lot. Also, online stores like the apple store are able to take all your information on what you like or dislike and sell them to companies where they can use that information to advertise to you. The right to privacy is completely gone when you enter into those kind of online arenas. To me nothing is better than going out and buying records, hence the reason I just did. I just got back from my weekly stomping ground Amoeba Records and came back with quite a few goodies. The one I’m most happy with is the Small Brown Bike/ Casket Lottery Split record. These two band rule and I suggest anyone who hasn’t heard them to go and pick up this record, it is flawless. Here’s a video of one of the songs from the split that the bands wrote and perform together.

Enjoy!