{"id":1616,"date":"2008-06-24T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/the-new-wolf-parade-record"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T22:54:28","slug":"the-new-wolf-parade-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/the-new-wolf-parade-record\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Wolf Parade Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Wolf Parade album, At Mount Zoomer<\/a>, is great. I\u2019ve been listening to it for a week solid.<\/p>\n

I came to be aware that this album was coming out because of iLike<\/a> on Facebook<\/a>. I\u2019ve put in the bands I like most these days, and whenever they\u2019ve got an album coming out, or are playing near me, I see a message. It\u2019s great. I love it.<\/p>\n

So the day of its release, I swung by my local record shop out of curiosity\u2026 and there it was! I bought the record\u2026 sound unheard<\/i> you might say. Fifteen bucks isn\u2019t as cheap as records used to be, but extremely reasonable considering that\u2019s what the CD costs, and CD\u2019s are crap. I mean, they are crap<\/i>! I\u2019ve always hated them. I\u2019m not being an elitist record snob\u2026 I just don\u2019t know why you\u2019d choose a CD over a record. But I\u2019ve been using an iPod for a long time, and that really does completely make CD\u2019s obsolete. There\u2019s just no point. The music might possibly sound better on the CD, depending\u2026 but most people don\u2019t know the difference.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like comparing a paperback to a hardcover book. Or like the difference between looking at art on your cell phone, versus a nice big coffee table book. The album is something<\/i>. It\u2019s big, physical, and it really puts the focus on the art. As a designer, I kinda like that. CD\u2019s are like those tiny little booklets promoting Camel cigarettes. They\u2019re like little crappy club flyers, wrapped in plastic garbage. Records are giant and lovely, and often have other artifacts within, as does this one.<\/p>\n

Not only that, but it includes a coupon to download the MP3\u2019s for free<\/b>! And why not? If I had any doubt about buying the record, that certainly settled it. It doesn\u2019t really cost them anything to throw that in, but it totally sealed the deal for me. I listen to the MP3\u2019s at work or on the go, and when I get home I can listen to the record on our nice stereo.<\/p>\n

With a glass of wine, of course. Not beer. Beer is crap. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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