The Perils of Downloading

I download way too many MP3s. Usually two or three albums a day. Sometimes more.

It has become something of a daily ritual. Breakfast. Check emails. Download MP3s. Work.

It’s not even ten o’clock yet and I’ve already downloaded Mi Sueno by Ibrahim Ferrer, the new Gus Gus album, Forever, a Buddha Lounge tribute to the Beatles and a Disney album of swashbuckling Pirate songs. (For Daisy. No, really.) Yesterday it was Mum’s Peel Sessions, a couple of Andrew Bird’s, and Frengers by Mew.

Downloading them is the easy bit. Getting around to listening to them is the difficult part. I usually load them into iTunes and let it throw them up randomly.

I haven’t downloaded stuff twice because I didn’t remember I already have it – I’ve come close and have implemented a procedural check to make sure I don’t. But I’m always coming across stuff in the real world – ie radio, TV, cafes – that I like the sound of only to discover that I already have it. The OK Go song with the film clip set on running machines is a prime example.

Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that random threw up something this morning that I didn’t know I had. The Cardigans doing a cover version of the Kraftwerk song Das Model. It’s a b-side on the single For What It’s Worth.

For what it’s worth, I quite liked it.