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The Music Follows Me
by Tom Southam | 19/03/10

Someone should ban iphones, someone should switch off my wireless internet; someone really should take responsibility for my itunes account and put some sort of limit on it. I mean it’s either all that or I could just show some self-restraint when I have 30 or 40 seconds to spare in my day.

Having the ability to buy songs on my phone no matter where I am, (even on the toilet dammit) is like having a personal servant following you around with a box of delightful chocolates to hand. He just stands there next to you in his Indian military uniform and passively lets you know he has a whole inexhaustible box of bite size delights right there, and the price? Ah don’t worry about the price, he’ll just add it to your tab that goes directly from your bank account so you’ll never know how much you spend anyway.

I dread to think how much money I have spent on music in the last twelve years, if the five hundred or so empty jewel cases in my bedroom that are awaiting cataloguing and shelving are anything to go by I’d say a fair bit. But at least back then I had not only to make the effort to go to Our Price and actually make a physical purchase, but I would also know I’d bought something. These days I’ll buy so much stuff while waiting for the water to boil, while trying to distract myself from writing an assignment or simply to avoid switching the TV on for a few minutes, I have really no clue as to how much music I have, and how many thousands I have donated to record companies.

The good news is though, that all that I get from all these discs, songs, albums, mp3’s whatever, I value more than anything I could have gotten in its place. I love them all like my offspring (I imagine), and I also like to share, so while I am sat here trying to avoid actually going upstairs and starting to sort all those piles of music; here are the latest gems I have been enjoying.

For your listening pleasure apropos of nothing:

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