Josiah and I were interested in learning more about the Apple Music Store built into iTunes 4, so we tried to figure out what to buy as a test. While we were exploring, we discovered that the Firesign Theater’s epochal Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers was on sale at the canonical ninety-nine cents for each side of the record. Well, it’ll be no test of audio fidelity, but we knew in an instant that we had to download it. This proved an exceptionally simple procedure, and relatively fast (considering that each selection was twenty minutes long). Our solemn report, after listening to the recording when Margaret was out of the house churning out many pages of her thesis: the Firesign Theater is every bit as funny in AAC format as they are on a scratchy old LP. I still remember much of the dialogue word for word (which is why we had to listen while Margaret was away). “. . . And there’s hamburger all over the highway in Mystic Connecticut. . . .” I’ll wait till you stop laughing.
Next, we’ll choose an intensely fine musical track to examine closely, but that may have to wait a day or two.
Posted by AKMA at April 29, 2003 09:18 PM | TrackBackSomething about fruit and trees and wiser spouces...hmm...I cannot quite put my finger on it.
Posted by: Tripp at April 30, 2003 06:44 AMShameful pleasures! How can I not switch to Mac?
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