jon_chaisson | RTS: In Which I Curse--er, Thank head58

Okay, so the last few days I've been going through eMusic's website, furiously looking through what they have in their collection. I've come to the conclusion that they rarely if ever have anything held by the major labels (with exceptions), but if it's on an indie label, chances are it's in there somewhere...or perhaps earlier albums by the same band.

At present I'm looking through all the 80s albums, and what do I find? Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, The Go-Betweens, The Minutemen, The Pixies, The Fall, Love and Rockets, Peter Murphy, Felt, Lyres, This Mortal Coil, Lemonheads, Skinny Puppy, Mekons, All/The Descendents, Black Flag, Camper Van Beethoven, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Wolfgang Press, Jello Biafra's spoken word albums, David J's solo albums, scads of stuff off 4AD...and that's just the 80s stuff. So far. I haven't completely gone through it. So yeah, all the early indie/college/punk stuff that old indie farts like me should already have in my collection.

Hot damn, this is like me in a candy store, where the sugary goodness is all the albums I'd either bought on vinyl in dollar bins or never gotten around to buying at all, despite wanting to!

Yeah, looks like that $19.99 for 75 downloads a month is going to be quite worth it for the next few months... :)