Filed under: money (lack of), music, personal | Tags: cd shopping, keri hilson
I accidentally locked myself out of my apartment (again) this morning, and my downstairs neighbor with the spare key was out at a doctor’s appointment. To kill some time until she got back , I went to Whole Foods and then stumbled into FYE, tempted by their “All CDs Now $9.99 or less” sign. I’m pretty sure I’ve never once bought a CD at FYE because they’ve always been ridiculously expensive, but $9.99 or less had a nice ring to it.
I ended up spending a lot of money I don’t actually have, though I did pick up a lot of pop albums I’ve been too embarrassed or broke to buy elsewhere. I got the new Kelly Clarkson, the Taylor Swift album, the Metro Station CD that I got for free when it came out but then gave away because the wonderful amazingness that is Seventeen Forever hadn’t quite struck me yet, and Keri Hilson’s In A Perfect World. I also got some discounted oldies: John Cougar Mellencamp’s Uh-Huh and PJ Harvey’s Peel Sessions, as well as Freestyle’s Greatest Hits Volume 1, which for some reason I didn’t own already.
So far I’ve only listened to the Mellencamp (it’s good!), the Metro Station (parts of it are really good!) and the Keri Hilson, which is kind of a letdown. The album version of Return The Favor is missing the chorus that’s in the single, for one thing, and I can’t imagine why. Also that song has a minute-long fadeout on the CD, and it’s track 4. That’s something that should be saved for the last song, or at least the song that would end Side A on the record. Also, In A Perfect World has at least one too many songs about how Miss Keri only wants to talk to dudes with money. As someone heavily feeling the economic downturn, this isn’t what I want to listen to. It just isn’t. And current single Knock You Down, though it’s grown on me considerably over the last two weeks, still has 30-45 seconds too much of Kanye West.
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