Music that you meant to buy, but haven't

[Underseer]

I have a folder full of links to YouTube videos of music.

The links are supposed to serve as a reminder to buy the MP3 versions of those songs. Sometimes I actually make the purchase and the appropriate shortcut/link gets removed from that folder, but I've got items in there that have languished for a long time.

This is so stupid because purchasing songs one at a time is incredibly cheap and easy and fast.

Sampling of stuff in the folder:







Anyway, if you have stuff in your music wishlist that for whatever reason never get fulfilled, share them with us.

 

[Ford]

An obscure part of my obscure job is making sure that the right rerun of "Casey Kasem's American Top 40" runs on schedule. Because of an anal retentive control freak middle manager, I have to check the whole show every weekend.

As such, I sometimes stumble across songs that were hits (in that they charted at the time) but have since fallen off the radar. One of those was this:

[YOUTUBE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PypkbiMD1Ew[/YOUTUBE]


Who knew that the guitar player from Duran Duran had a song that hit the lower end of the top 40? I did, but had forgotten it.

Last time I checked, it was mostly unavailable. You could buy a vinyl album that contained the song (for 40 bucks) but not download the single.

 

[KeepTalking]

My Google Play All Access subscription means I don't buy MP3s any more, just about everything I want to listen to is there to be streamed commercial free. I do still occasionally buy CDs, but only from the merch booth at concerts where a larger chunk of the money I am spending is going to the artist. Even with those, they sometimes sit on the shelf, unopened, because the music contained on them is available on GPAA. At smaller shows, though, I generally bring the disc home after getting it signed by someone in the band, so that ups the value for me. GPAA also allows you to upload songs that they don't have the rights to stream, and use them as a personal online collection. This does have a limit, but it is 20,000 songs, and I haven't hit that limit in the several years since I subscribed.