ipod makes me cool
by alex
I remember reading this article a while ago: iPod vs music snobs and being somewhat amused.
Well, now I’m That Guy who just liberated a Music Snob’s entire (23 GB, 4713 songs) library and gave just about nothing in return. Look at all these cool bands whose music I now own:
- Badly Drawn Boy
- The Beta Band
- Bright Eyes
- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
- Godspeed You Black Emperor!
- Jets to Brazil
- Kanye West
- The Mars Volta
- Minus the Bear
And that’s only a sampling of the bands up to “M”! I’m actually TWICE as cool as what I just listed because I didn’t even go into the 2nd half of the alphabet. I bet you’ve never even heard of these bands. Well, now I have their music, and I will listen to them (maybe) and lord my knowledge over you to prove my superiority. (Unfortunately, I have no explanation for the presence of bands such as Blind Melon and Counting Crows in Music Snob’s library. Maybe he went insane at one point and forgot to clean up afterwards.)
Just kidding. Music snobs are dumb. I should delete all that crap and listen to U2’s Joshua Tree on repeat. Forever.
(This post originally written 31-October-2005)
Comments
i find the library helpful.. and you too when you put the ftp thing back on your computer! personally, my favorite pickup has been listening to some old school al green… such a smooth operator
hey, blind melon is good shit, you knob. for that comment you get one week of the silent treatment. that should make you think twice, mister high and mightypants…
Disagree. Blind Melon has a mamby pamby Seattle grunge wannabe sound that reminds me of weak, spurty diarrhea.