Just because it's called THE ROAD...

Mike & The Mechanics, which I have a natural knowledge of since the guitarist for Genesis from 1978-1997 (bassist for Genesis from 1966-1977) is the band leader/project coordinator, released an album a few+ years ago titled THE ROAD.  I had assumed it was a live album.  I gave out an irritated yawn, and said "I guess this is Aerosmith 2005-2011 all over again...". (Has it already been 4 years since MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION was released(officially)?  It just seems like yesterday.  That's how disappointed I am in that album.)
I just realized after a casual eyeing of Genesis News Com, that the album titled THE ROAD is NOT a live album!  I finally listened to it a couple days ago.  It's got a negative-lukewarm average customer rating on Amazon.com for very good reason.  It's not a bad album, but it's far from noteworthy.  I'm not a fan of Mike & The Mechanics anyway, although they did put out some really good songs, primarily "The Living Years", "Silent Running" and "All I Need Is A Miracle".  There's probably a few others that rival or equal (maybe surpass) those, but I haven't come across them, at least not so as I remember.  I bought BEGGAR ON A BEACH OF GOLD during my ravenous e-bay days...I didn't like it enough to finish listening to it.  Albums are not something to cherry pick from, IMO.  If the 'skip' button is required, it shouldn't be sold as an album.  An EP or a 1-2 track standalone release is fine.  I don't know why the music industry, especially in the mid-late '90's when so many one hit wonders were abound, made it a hard and fast rule that the music consumer had to pay $10-$15 for ***ONE SONG*** or stick with the radio.  Thank GOD! for the internet, which has brought the prices of music down and made obtaining music you ***WANT*** to hear not as much of a chore.  I don't condone the original incarnation of Napster (which is now what Rhapsody calls themselves, Rhapsody being - for those in the dark there - a non-ad-supported version of Spotify...it requiring a monthly fee of $10+ a month was, from what I can tell, the reason it never gained the ubiquity of Spotify), but the result of their anarchistic behavior is something to relish in, at least in my case, being somewhat "poor" -- I put quotation marks on that b/c $875 a month apprx w/ food stamps factored in is not a terrible income, although it can feel like it in this age of consumerism and I realize people with more money have more value to the overall economy...people in my income bracket are basically bottomfeeders...I haven't done the math and I don't know what most minimum wage employees are taxed, but back when I was 14 or so, my mom did a math sketch and figured I'd be taking home roughly $850 a month, if I recall correctly...minimum wage went up, I think, at least in Missouri, since then...I don't know if ever went up nationwide since 1998, but either way, working minimum wage, in my cursory guestimate, cannot eqate more than $1000 a month, unless maybe you have a spouse and 2 or 3 kids...which lowers your taxes, understandably so, since traditionally someone in a marriage, usually the woman, can stay at home with the kids while the other person takes home the butter and has an extra $100/-+ takehome pay divided by 12 months...which I guess is practically nothing...I can't imagine being single and/or childless would make a person required to pay more than $100 annually in taxes unless their NOT making minimum wage...of course, people who get $0.25/hr beyond minimum wage deny they are working minimum wage...which is a joke, IMO...working for peanuts is still working for peanuts even if the peanuts in question have a 1/20" larger length...
Anyway....
Went to the doctor today.  I did not get any kind of diagnosis or even a guess of one.  I was told to take Mucinex, but my mom was too tired to buy any...or something...I don't have any money left to my name...my mom handles the household expenses because my sister lives a tad too far away to do it for her/us (we're both a little too fast and loose with our money) and for some b.s. reason I don't understand I'm less "responsible" than my mom...a notion that cannot be tested, as I've never been given any responsibility.  I opted out of driving b/c I realize I'm too easily distracted to drive.  Financially I did make some mistakes when I was younger, but what young person doesn't?  My sister bought a house when she was 24 and took a $15,000 hit on it, but that's OK while my credit card debt is NOT Ok... and I admit, I do have more credit card debt than I would like to have...and I have a whole host of debts that I gave up on paying a looong time ago after I wrongly aligned the timing of my purchases and my payments, which snowballed  into minimum payments of $100/mo rather than $30 a month, which kept adding up despite my attempts to get onto some kind of repayment plans...the only credit card company that *eventually* understood what I was trying to get across and connected me to the appropriate department was CHASE.  Capital One was of no help whatsoever, even though in their lawsuit -- they were the only ones who took me to court -- they cited as evidence against me some lie they included in my monthly statement indicating they can work with me if I'm having trouble making the minimum payment...all that debt equates somewhere in the $5K range apprx, which when compared with my income is out of this world...you know what's even more out of this world?  I didn't order sushi or rent a limo or hire a bodyguard and I ***STILL*** managed to spend all of that.  And I don't know WHAT I spent it on.  All I remember is taking my mom out to eat somewhere for mother's day and buying a DVD recorder, both of those things equated less than $200...Eek!