Good lord. Did you know you can download Blur’s Parklife for a mere £3 from Amazon? Is this a good thing or not? Obviously, everyone should own this album, but it just feels a bit wrong to see it given so little worth. For fifteen quid – the price albums used to be when I had a student grant to burn – you could now get the following: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie Different Class by Pulp Greatest Hits by Squeeze Tommy by The Who Overloaded: The Singles Collection by Sugababes i.e. an amazing british pop music primer. That’s enough to keep you going for quite some time. But would you be destroying the music whilst listening to it? It’s a tricky conundrum. At the very least, if you don’t own Parklife, then … well, why are still here? Go. Go now. Leave me to sit here and ponder the fickle ebb and flow of popular culure. I’ll be fine.

Good lord. Did you know you can download Blur’s Parklife for a mere £3 from Amazon? Is this a good thing or not? Obviously, everyone should own this album, but it just feels a bit wrong to see it given so little worth.

For fifteen quid – the price albums used to be when I had a student grant to burn – you could now get the following:

  • Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie
  • Different Class by Pulp
  • Greatest Hits by Squeeze
  • Tommy by The Who
  • Overloaded: The Singles Collection by Sugababes

i.e. an amazing british pop music primer. That’s enough to keep you going for quite some time. But would you be destroying the music whilst listening to it? It’s a tricky conundrum.

At the very least, if you don’t own Parklife, then … well, why are still here? Go. Go now. Leave me to sit here and ponder the fickle ebb and flow of popular culure. I’ll be fine.

21 January 2009 | 0 notes