{"id":1444,"date":"2010-08-14T18:20:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-15T00:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2010-08-15T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T00:22:48","slug":"far-better-to-spend-the-money-now-than-save-it-for-when-i-really-need-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"Far better to spend the money now than save it for when I really need it… right?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here I go buying CDs again.\u00a0 You know, I’ve still never ever bought mp3s?\u00a0 I always get the feeling that if I do I’ll somehow get screwed over when I can’t go and grab the original physical CD to re-rip the music from later.<\/p>\n

What the fuck am I talking about… I’ve bought hours and hours of classical music mp3s from eClassical.<\/p>\n

Never mind.<\/p>\n

That actually reminds me, I need to get some of that fine funky classical music onto my iPod.\u00a0 I like chamber music the best… when you can hear each individual instrument play one part.\u00a0 Kind of like a rock band, but instead of a guitarist, a keyboardist, a bass player and a drummer, you have a violinist, a violist, a cellist and a double bassist.<\/p>\n

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\nAlmost.<\/p>\n

But that’s the kind of simple, down-to-basics stuff I like.\u00a0 I’m not much of a fan of big orchestras playing symphonic music.\u00a0 And fuck opera.<\/p>\n

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\nI don’t mean the browser, but I can’t really say I have a very high opinion of it.\u00a0 I remember when you had to either pay for it or get fed ads to use it.\u00a0 And for all I know, it’s still like that.<\/p>\n

Correct me if I’m wrong.<\/p>\n

And I tried out the Opera Mini browser on my Android phone.\u00a0 It didn’t work.\u00a0 I’m not talking it didn’t render pages right, it didn’t fucking work at all.<\/p>\n

What was I talking about?\u00a0 Sorry, I had a really rough week.<\/p>\n

I’m buying some more Camel music.<\/p>\n

I’m buying their first album again because the remastered version contains a live version of a very long song that was on a Peter Bardens solo album.\u00a0 I’m also buying a “Live in 1972” CD and a “Live in 1982” CD, probably just so I can tell the difference between vitality and caricature.<\/p>\n

And I’m also getting the album “Stationary Traveller” and a live DVD from the 1984 tour.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 I’ve heard parts of “Stationary Traveller”, and it’s not all bad.\u00a0 Not the best thing Andrew Latimer has done, but it’s better than a lot of other stuff recorded in 1984.<\/p>\n

And that’s why I said I’m spending my money on frivolous things again.\u00a0 I can’t help it.\u00a0 I’m a music junkie.<\/p>\n

But if I ever start to dress and look like Mozart, like Elton John is doing up there, please make me stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, here I go buying CDs again.\u00a0 You know, I’ve still never ever bought mp3s?\u00a0 I always get the feeling that if I do I’ll somehow get screwed over when I can’t go and grab the original physical CD to re-rip the music from later. What the fuck am I talking about… I’ve bought hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[21,386,387],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-camel","tag-classical-music","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}