"I didn’t know I was this geeky until I discovered the online world through my office’s 2400 baud modem back in ’93." Une annee sans lumières
2005 goes down in my books as the year I stopped buying CDs. My budget had to give somewhere and rather than be a scrooge on food, I cut down from my usual 80 CDs a year to virtually none (‘less than 10′). Torrents be praised. Do I feel guilty? Not really. Most of my money and time (and time, as you all know, is money) has gone and still goes into the music industry anyway.
And yet I can’t cut down completely. Sometimes I get these urges, these little obsessions. Last week it was ‘I have to have everything and anything ever put out by Arcade Fire’. Why? Gorgeous packaging, that’s why. I mean, look at this. The scans don’t do the actual product justice. The ‘Neighborhood #2′ 7″ for example has a fold out sleeve, printed inside and out with Art Deco/Tim Burtonesque imagery. 
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Since they’re only starting out it’s fairly easy to obtain ‘everything and anything’, except that elusive first single, only 1500 of which were pressed. So if anyone can give me a lead on a copy of the ‘Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)’ 7″…
