I Tune

[ornoth]

I finally broke down and paid for music on iTunes, as much as I hate the idea of paying Apple for music. Oh well. Fortunately, there aren’t many songs I’d pay for which I don’t already own, so at least it won’t be a recurring theme.

I figure it makes sense, though, for a certain set of conditions. Specifically: (a) for something I really want, (b) that’s incredibly obscure and can’t be found elsewhere, and (c) where I have no interest in buying the entire album. That usually means vintage obscurity, and that’s what I found myself buying on Thursday.

What’s doubly interesting is the contrast between the two songs I bought. Apparently I’ve always had pretty diverse, esoteric tastes, because you'd have a hard time finding two more opposite Seventies-era artists than James Taylor and Alice Cooper. “Is That the Way You Look?” is an atypical (for JT) doo-wop ditty full of infatuation, while “Go to Hell” is teenage angst-rock. And how can you argue with a lyric like: “You’d even force-feed a diabetic a candy cane”?