Music and stuff, inspired by Dan4th
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sorcyressFrom my meme. Go give me something to babble about!
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"what's the first piece of music you purchased for yourself? what inspired you to buy it? (if you've never bought a tape, cd, etc, I'm going to have to curl up under my desk and cry)" --Dan4th
Oh, please don't cry, but I think I've bought less than half a dozen CD's. *counts* Yep, six exactly, two of them through itunes.
Before you declare me useless, know that somewhere between half and three quarters of the four thousand songs in my itunes are stuff I ganked from my parents and their combined *excellent* sense of music. I got eighties, rock, pop, and SHOWTUNES from my mom, metal, punk, techno, and hard rock from my dad...about the only thing they don't have is country.
The first CD I ever personally bought for myself was the original cast recording of the musical "Heisman". It's a terrible musical, should it somehow actually wind up off-broadway or (heaven forbid) on it, don't go see it. But the musics pretty good, and seeing as I know everyone in the original cast...yeah. I kinda *had* to buy it.
The first CD I ever bought for myself that I intended to actually listen to was Weird Al's "Straight Outta Lynwood". I'm a pretty big Al fan, and it was either the day it came out or within a week after....I went on a long walk to the local Borders and Target in order to buy it and the newest Artemis Fowl book, which had come out the same week. It was a great day.
But seriously, I rarely buy music. I encourage friends to give me good music, and swipe CD's from my parents to put on my computer, but I almost never actually go out and buy stuff...mostly because mom buys everything I'd want to. ("I should buy Young Frankenstein: The Musical" she thinks, during winter break when it comes out. She forgets all about it, until spring break, when mom plays it in the car.)
And, uhm, yep.
(Note that, even though I rarely get around to actually babbling about music, I have an icon that I have arbitrarily decided is my music icon --go They Might Be Giants!!)
~Sor
MOOP!
EDIT: Oh wow, I was totally reading that exclusively as CD's. I've bought more music than CD's --a dozen or two songs off itunes, when I needed them. Still, I bought Heisman before any of them, so that's what counts most.
And the first CD I remember getting mom to buy for us was Weird Al's "Bad Hair Day" back in 2000, for the Big Trip. Me, Nik, and Aly fell in love with 'Everything You Know is Wrong', and sang in repeatedly. I'm shocked the CD survived.
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"what's the first piece of music you purchased for yourself? what inspired you to buy it? (if you've never bought a tape, cd, etc, I'm going to have to curl up under my desk and cry)" --Dan4th
Oh, please don't cry, but I think I've bought less than half a dozen CD's. *counts* Yep, six exactly, two of them through itunes.
Before you declare me useless, know that somewhere between half and three quarters of the four thousand songs in my itunes are stuff I ganked from my parents and their combined *excellent* sense of music. I got eighties, rock, pop, and SHOWTUNES from my mom, metal, punk, techno, and hard rock from my dad...about the only thing they don't have is country.
The first CD I ever personally bought for myself was the original cast recording of the musical "Heisman". It's a terrible musical, should it somehow actually wind up off-broadway or (heaven forbid) on it, don't go see it. But the musics pretty good, and seeing as I know everyone in the original cast...yeah. I kinda *had* to buy it.
The first CD I ever bought for myself that I intended to actually listen to was Weird Al's "Straight Outta Lynwood". I'm a pretty big Al fan, and it was either the day it came out or within a week after....I went on a long walk to the local Borders and Target in order to buy it and the newest Artemis Fowl book, which had come out the same week. It was a great day.
But seriously, I rarely buy music. I encourage friends to give me good music, and swipe CD's from my parents to put on my computer, but I almost never actually go out and buy stuff...mostly because mom buys everything I'd want to. ("I should buy Young Frankenstein: The Musical" she thinks, during winter break when it comes out. She forgets all about it, until spring break, when mom plays it in the car.)
And, uhm, yep.
(Note that, even though I rarely get around to actually babbling about music, I have an icon that I have arbitrarily decided is my music icon --go They Might Be Giants!!)
~Sor
MOOP!
EDIT: Oh wow, I was totally reading that exclusively as CD's. I've bought more music than CD's --a dozen or two songs off itunes, when I needed them. Still, I bought Heisman before any of them, so that's what counts most.
And the first CD I remember getting mom to buy for us was Weird Al's "Bad Hair Day" back in 2000, for the Big Trip. Me, Nik, and Aly fell in love with 'Everything You Know is Wrong', and sang in repeatedly. I'm shocked the CD survived.
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on 2008-03-15 02:14 am (UTC)I always feel compelled to use my Birdhouse in your Soul icon when replying to you...
on 2008-03-15 02:41 am (UTC)Not to mention the issues we had with the writer. On the plus side, we got the rights for free. I'm really not sure it was worth it...
~Sor