Mars needs music

[charliesmum]

It's taking quite a bit of my willpower not to start spending money on iTunes. "It's only .99 cents!" my ego argues, "That's nothing!"

"But," says my brain, "It adds up quickly. I'm pretty sure you could live without Bowling for Soup's 1985 on your iPod."

"But I want it," whines the ego. "And I want other songs too. I'm bored of our CDs. I want new songs. I want Coldplay. I want to hear songs that were written in this century, for heaven's sake. And don't tell me we have Sting. He doesn't count."

"We can't afford to start buying stuff like that." says Brain, sensibly. "We'll lose track and before we know it, we'll have spent $20 on songs that we don't really need; money we don't really have."

Ego pouts, temporarily stymied. But browses iTunes anyway.

Charlie slept for 12 hours. That's pretty unusual for him. I think he was still a bit under the weather yesterday. At 8:30 last night he told me he wanted to go to bed. He's chipper now, though, bright as a penny. So that's good.

By the way, my brother in law lent me three books at Christmas, and I highly recommend them. They are Bubbles Unbound, Bubbles in Trouble, and Bubbles Ablaze Mystery stories along the same vein of the Stephanie Plum books, and as addictive as potato chips. I spent some of a gift card to get the fourth book, after reading the first three in as many days. I highly recommend them to anyone who enjoys a good mystery mixed with humor and great characters.

Must go start the day now.

Comments

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

They're like Stephaie Plum books? I'll be heading out to the bookstore this afternoon, that's for sure! I need something new to read, and those sound perfect.

[deviantauthor.livejournal.com]

Try www.allofmp3.com and yes, they have a site in American and not just Russian.

Happy New Year

[cabenson.livejournal.com]

Coldplay's X and Y

[teh-dale.livejournal.com]

try this site:

MP3's Hits Dot Com (http://www.mp3shits.com). It has a huge archive of free downloadable mp3s. You'll find about a third of them end up being broken links, and it helps if you have a good virus blocker so you don't get the odd spyware implanted in your 'puter, but there are a lot of jewels among the bunch. Easily half of my current playlist came from that site.

[camwyn]

Actually, I have 1985 on my computer. We may be able to arrange something.

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

if you want illegally downloaded songs, just ask. I have ed2K open 24/7 anyway, so it's no bother.
Personally, I found iTunes very much lacking - but I suppose that store isn't aimed at people like me.

[femaelstrom27.livejournal.com]

It is scary to think that if you had, say, 1,000 songs on your iPod...that's $1,000 right there. It seems like such a tiny amount of money, but DAMN. I don't have an iPod, I just have iTunes, and with the songs I've downloaded for free plus all my CDs, I have 1368 songs. Sorry, those were just thoughts that popped into my head.