Music Is Taking Over My Life

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen,

I've come to make a sad announcment tonight. Music is officially
taking over my life.

I have at this moment, every Franz Ferdinand song ever recorded, on
the hard drive of this laptop. Aside from that, I have 15 songs by The
Karelia, and 2 by The Blisters - two of FF's front man Alex Kapranos'
old band.

These songs are the product of one weeks net searching and people
contacting. It's been hard, but I've done it.

I discovered today that I may have exceeded my traffic limit for the
month, so I shan't be downloading anymore songs until November. This
makes me want to cry, but I think my current music rations will last.

I was going to buy Papa Roach's new album "Getting Away With Murder"
but thought that perhaps I shouldn't. I want to exhaust my FF files
first before moving on.

I have, in total, something like 3GB of music. That's 3 Gmail
accounts. That's a hell of a lot. And it's not all the same band or
the same type of music... it's live tracks, rare tracks, non-album
tracks, tracks on CDs I'd never buy, tracks on CDs that aren't on
sale... it's remixes of tracks, merging of tracks, b-sides, studio
versions, live in timbuktu versions... anything.
It's rock, jazz, classic, techno, "indie", funk, pop, blues, sixties,
punk... anything I find myself attracted to.............

I have an almost **sexual** relationship with music. I want it inside
me, I want it to flow through my veins and feed me. I want it to rip
through my skin and flood me. I want it to pour in and out of me,
caress me and wrap itself around me. I want to jump to it, have it
lift me up. I want to sink into it...

And I like all of the songs I have. Because the stuff I don't like
goes "Shift-Delete" - no recycle bin for you.

And it's scary.

I can see how the music industry is being harmed when you download
tracks that ARE on sale, but to think of all the money they're not
earning because people are dLing things at an impressive rate just
because they're not on sale!

Yes, it's illegal. Yes, I could be taken to court for it. But it's so useful.

I could have PAID for the Pixie's Bam Thwok. But I got a friend who'd
dLed it off iTunes to send it to me, which he gladly did.

What's the world coming to?