Bad Albums Bought Out Of Desperation
The pictured album is one that contradicts the above heading.Today the new Devin Townsend album was supposed to be released here in Australia in most places but the digipak including dvd was supposed to be at jb hi fi.For some reason despite popping in to 4 of their stores,not one of them had it.The above info leads me to the heading topic.Shit albums I have bought when I thought I was getting something else,We've all done it,the expectation of getting that album you must have only to find that nobody has it.So do you walk away and wait 'til it comes in?No you take home something else that is ultimately shite just so you can feel you walked away with something.You have to fill that hole that has been created by not getting what you wanted,so you take home crap.It's not that different to going out to pick up,realising it's not going to happen so you drop your standards and take home some scrawfin' whorebag with a bung eye and a mouth that won't quit(ok,there are some uses for that....lick.....just your tongue).The pictured album is an exception to the headline,I almost went home with a whorebag cd,but luckily some stunner winked at me before leaving(the above album) and it happily shagged my ears all the way home.Spelling mistake of the day,saw a Japanese version of Metallica's Ride The Lightning which had a small discography on the back.I never realised they had an album called 'Lord'and 'Re-Lord'.Gotta love 'em.What were your crap desperation purchases?
posted by Shirk at 10:13 PM
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You know, I enjoy imagining your voice as a read these passages. It adds to the Shirk dimension.
As for my music purshase angst, it was mostly when I was Djing in OZ and buying vinyl. As most of the music I heard in clubs and wanted to buy was without lyrics, I had to hum the synth riffs to the cashier (who rarely cared about that kind of music)or quoted some cheezy sample like 'take it to the limit' or some such nonsence and knowing 100 % that the single was there but unfindable. Thankfully Kazaa trax are always in stock ha ha eh...
12:58 AM
Thanks Gree,more shirktastic fun on the way!
9:18 AM
I seem to have more trouble with over anticipating the quality of follow-up albums, when the previous album was great. The cd jacket pictured comes to mind here: a killer cd however the much awaited follow-up album, Odyssey, was crap. Other bad follow-ups:
Word of Mouth
Prisoners In Paradise
Awake
Nothin' but Trouble
Three Sides To Every Story
12:37 PM
Jurt wants to make a tribute album to Randy Rhodes
5:50 PM
That would be Kurt
5:51 PM
Hey cheeseshirker, the postage is winding down. It wouldn't be another Kurt effort would it?
1:14 AM
Purchasing albums of crappy metal bands I saw live. Axatak springs to mind, it may yet be lurking in the shadows, haunting me...
2:24 AM
Well the thing is Dave,I was going to post something the other day but felt the qual wasn't up to scratch so scrapped it 'til something good drifts through my brain.
8:39 AM
Is that a stab at my banal pointless posts?
I thought that was the charm.
Bag, I remember the Axatak gig at Dodds highschool no less. After we went to Laconia at night and shot windows and stuff with the vulcan? shanghai. That was my first real experience with ear ringing due to loud music. If I heard it today, I bet my ears wouldn't even register it in their compromised condition and having been to many worse club gigs since then.
5:11 PM
I remember Laconia but I never got the chance to slide down the spiral wool shute and evade death at the end.I do remember smashing windows and bottles though. And Dodd's weapons! I think our family was a little unique as I am not sure how many 15-year-olds used to have illegal shanghais made of surgical steel and latex, mini-crossbows, full-sized crossbows (that we could barely manage cocking), air rifles, pump-action 12-guage shotguns, .44 magnum pig-hunting carbines (or was it .45?). That combined with all the hard liquor illegally consumed on the weekends, I'd say we were reasonably unique, wouldn't you?
11:55 AM
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