56k Blues
Okay, so we haven’t been updated as frequently as I like, but there is an explanation — your humble editor is on vacation in Milwaukee visiting family and friends (and totally not watching Maury). Problem is, the stone ages of 56K modems are still alive and well in his old house.
Isn’t it funny? When the Internet began we were all yelling at that shit to load faster, and now that it loads faster, we yell at that shit when it has to load at all.
Remember how different your music life was in the days of 56k? First off, this blog wouldn’t exist — too many videos and hi-def pics. Maybe you would still download the Sleep Station album we released, but you’d leave your computer on all day and during the night while it downloaded. (And all the while your phone line would be tied up. Your best bet might actually be to get it on Napster after its been out for a while.)
And damn it, if someone recommended you awesome obscure music like we try to do here, you’d have to trust him enough to spend hours of your life watching that green bar creep forward, and those little numbers creep upward.
14k downloaded, 17k downloaded, 22k downloaded, 45k downloaded, 40k downloaded… wait, what the hell? Why is it going backward? Asshole thing.
Also, whoever he recommended probably doesn’t have enough seeders on your your downloading program, so maybe you might get the album after a few weeks in the bottom of your queue — if you’re lucky.
So if you wanted your fix of weird music noones ever heard, the best bet is picking up label-less disks at local shows you heard about through a torn up, soggy flier clinging to an old electric pole that’s seems to be held together by thousands of staples.
So 56k life sucked, right?
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