I hear all this noise about eMusic so I thought I should take a look. Of course, you have to sign up for a free trial just to search for stuff. This means I have 25 free downloads.
I have 19 7 left after several hours of searching. What I see is a lot of outtakes, bootlegs (perhaps endorsed, but of dubious quality), and stuff that’s not quite what I’m looking for. But I finally found Television’s The Blow-up.
Anyone have any suggestions of things they like and can recommend?
So far, I have grabbed a couple of tracks from Leo Kottke’s debut, a couple of Peter Green-era Fleetwood Mac rave-ups, White Stripes (Ball and Biscuit: didn’t think it could be them when I heard it the other week, ‘cuz the drums were on the beat). I think there may be a lot of current material but old farts like me don’t know anything about it.
This really does feel like getting a gift card or scrip to a kind of second-hand shop or flea market. There’s not a whole lot I can see that I want but it’s free. Um, great.