Sleepy, going, buying music
Jan. 22nd, 2006 01:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garranI should mention that I did, in fact, put in my $500, and so will almost certainly be going to Japan this May.
"Chutes Too Narrow", which is the Shins CD my sister bought for me, is about 34 minutes long; this puts it considerably less than half the length of "Illinois" (which I finally found used a week ago, and which I continue to think is delicious). The peculiar thing about this is that I'm pretty sure they're sold for the same price. It's tempting to say that the Sufjan Stevens is a much better value, except that, of course, minutes of music aren't all equivalent to one another; "Chutes" is good, and doesn't feel truncated as an album, and I'm sure that there are any number of longer albums around which would be giving me less enjoyment, if right now I had them instead. Still, something doesn't seem right about the situation.
One of the things I'll need to deal with in figuring out how I feel about this is that, if I'm ever responsible for an album, it's probably going to be on the briefer side (I write short songs). On the other hand, it's pretty unlikely that my method of distribution will be to sell it next to Sufjan in the record stores.
"Chutes Too Narrow", which is the Shins CD my sister bought for me, is about 34 minutes long; this puts it considerably less than half the length of "Illinois" (which I finally found used a week ago, and which I continue to think is delicious). The peculiar thing about this is that I'm pretty sure they're sold for the same price. It's tempting to say that the Sufjan Stevens is a much better value, except that, of course, minutes of music aren't all equivalent to one another; "Chutes" is good, and doesn't feel truncated as an album, and I'm sure that there are any number of longer albums around which would be giving me less enjoyment, if right now I had them instead. Still, something doesn't seem right about the situation.
One of the things I'll need to deal with in figuring out how I feel about this is that, if I'm ever responsible for an album, it's probably going to be on the briefer side (I write short songs). On the other hand, it's pretty unlikely that my method of distribution will be to sell it next to Sufjan in the record stores.
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Date: 2006-01-22 10:04 am (UTC)I'm not sure quite what to say about the album length thing. I suppose it's an artist's responsibility to their supporters to produce an album worth listening to and worth buying. But how something that ephemeral translates into a metric as concrete as length feels awfully slippery.
Also, if I don't reallyreally like a band, then reallyreally long albums will grate on me after a while, and I start to wish they had finished up sooner. This even happens if I really like the band! Almost no one is immune! Stick that in your CD player and smoke it. ^_^_v