Stealing Music, Library Style

This itty bitty image uploaded from my phone is what can happen if you decide to get music from the library. It's a humongous stack - a four-year old girl helped me carry them! It's free like illegal downloads, but you're using resources beyond your own computer that won't give you a virus.

So far I've uploaded Ledisi's Lost and Found and Muddy Waters Mannish Boy. In the stack is a variety of artists like Neko Case, Gregory Isaacs, John Mayer and T.I. It's going to be quite the challenge finding today's song; I've got lots to sift through and still need to get stuff done today.

If you're a student like me, college libraries usually have killer CD libraries kept with the DVDs and recording equipment. It couldn't hurt to try it out, especially if you're the type to procrastinate.

Good luck!

Song of the Day

**1/3/09

Editors - Escape the Nest

-------------------Once again, I'd like to thank the public library for letting me borrow a stack of CDs to feed the belly of my already morbidly obese laptop. Seriously, that place isn't just for encyclopedias, study sessions or wrapping up a 12-page term paper at three a.m. Plus, I get a nerdy kick out of the labels that indicate the band on the CD is a "Musical Group."

Among the dozen or so "Musical Groups" I selected was Editors An End Has A Start. Editors "Escape the Nest" is riddled with wailing guitar and rides a sweeping, dramatic creshendo. The lyrics sung by a slightly operatic Tom Smith fatnasize the triumph of an ant-sized love in the overwhelming and intimidating size of reality.

Kick-ass clip from Glastonbury 2008:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hSpSYkxSrY

Song of the Day

**7/27/09

Jeffree Star - Prisoner

-------------The library - possibly not the most ideal place for heart-pumping, high-voltage techo rock, wouldn't you say? Amidst these walls of knowlegde my brain had a full fledged dance party to "Prisoner," an addicted-to-love surrender by the gender-bender designer, DJ, songwriter, model, and make-up artist, Jeffree Star. Sure, his dramatic makeovers that make him a her could be a little a vant garde, but the self-proclaimed "Queen of the Beautifuls" will have you swiveling your body in six-inch stilletos to "Prisoner" (take it to a nightclub, kids - libraries mean quiet time and I learned it the hard way!). Get it from Jeffree Star's 2009 album, Beauty Killer.

http://www.myspace.com/jeffreestar