CD edition not yet available for pre-order via Amazon.com.
mp3 edition is only $7.99 so I assume the CD edition will be slightly more, maybe $9.99 (+tax).
Was feeling really frustrated yesterday or one day not at all long ago about the lack of things that I want. Well, I guess God decided to throw me a bone. Thanks! // It always seems weird that I have X amount of dollars and can't think of a single thing I'd be happy to find in my mail box. The only things I ever consider are things I've already "been there done that". How rediculous is it to depart with something only to find it swim to shore again? At $7+ a pop, to boot. Crazy. It's now almost a miracle if I can find a CD that costs less than $5 that isn't cheaper or just as cheap locally. If it's not cheaper or just as cheap locally, then Amazon or WalMart are offering it BRAND NEW for the same price as the lowest priced used copy. Mailing a CD via USPS First Class used to cost $2 apprx. Now it's over $3. And Amazon's marketplace fees have seemingly skyrocketed, and they were never all that low to begin with. There's this band of shady pawnbroker types selling under the name Decluttr who also have their own website. I've never had any problems with them. Whenever I have had problems, they rectify them quickly. I've read many a horror story from people who have sold stuff to them and claim to have been ripped off. These stories usually surround stuff like smartphones etc. I've only heard crybabies complain about selling physical media to Decluttr. One guy took an issue that was his own making --- attempting to sell an item to them that did not meet the condition guideliens --- and turned it into an enormous conspiracy theory with an even longer tirade that morphed into 3 or 4 mini tirades. Other than that, and people who probably sent in scratched CDs without looking at them to see if they were scratched and felt cheated that they didn't get the amount they were promised..., I haven't noticed anyone cite them for suspicious retail practices buying up media. I think the smartphone issue might be just a tricky thing to get resolved. I myself would not do a factory reset on my phone and then sell it to somebody. There's probably a good amount of scrubbing involved in eliminating your personal data and even if you pay for a software that promises to get that accomplished, I don't see how you can know that it did what it was supposed to do UNTIL you try selling your phone to someone via the mail service. And that's on top of the fact that phones do get damaged in transit and customer service representatives often don't have adequate information to give to customers seeking explanation, as infuriating as that can be often times.
but in any case, decluttr's prices are generally rock bottom, even on Amazon, but they're even lower on eBay and their own retail website. So it's not *always* a high price to pay to re-buy something I want, but it does seem extremely wasteful nonethess.
I really don't think I need to give every dollar I have to the church or some other charity. I don't think it's my place at this time to be doing that given the reckless way I eat and sleep and do everything else I spend my day doing and not doing. If my monetary giving lined up with my physical health which lined up with my spiritual health, I wouldn't feel so bad about it, but I feel it's a dangerous path and a path I would regret, however selfish that sounds because of the truth being what it is.
Honestly, I have about $20 circa August that isn't budgeted for and there's nothing I haven't already owned that said $20 can buy me. At least nothing that is edifying to the soul and pleasing to the mind. Sure, I could probably find some dumb piece of music that I don't even like or subscribe to Hulu or something....the household shares Netflix, so it's all good on that front. I don't like Amazon Prime because they have a ton of nothing. 75% of their stuff is now original programming and most of that is a bunch of junk. They offer little snipps of greatness but 2 or 3 movies worth watching doesn't equate a worthwhile service. Hulu is basically an assortment of TV shows with a random assortment of movies that generally line up with Amazon's Prime offerings. Amazon has what they describe as "channels". Collectively, the channels have a good lineup of suff and if I could get them in a bundle, that might make Amazon Prime altogether worth about $20 a month when you factor in all they have to offer aside from movies.
Anyway.
They updated their Roku app to reflect the Prime member music available selections and the Amazon Music Unlimited streaming catalog. This was much needed good news as Roku only had Spotify and then Spotify left the Roku platform and apparantly has no interest in coming back. Rhapsody is still available on my LG Blu ray player, but it wasn't working the last several days I had access to it. I think it might've been something about the weather at the time. I might re-subscribe to that. But honestly I'm almost not sure why I even have a blu ray player. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) is one of my favorite movies by default, a lifelong companion so to speak, and I don't own it on Blu ray or DVD. I have it on streaming and my Roku does it really well. If my LG player could do Pandora the way it does Rhapsody (now known as Napster powered by Rhapsody, if anyone is confused..), then I wouldn't need a Roku, but Pandora is almost more fundamentally necessary than any on demand streaming service could possibly be. Streaming services are good for playlists that you can fall asleep to. Something about the unpredictability of radio -- even a station that is often guilty of lacking variety -- just adds something to the experience of hearing music. On the other hand, that unpredictability can be extremely annoying when you know you can't sit there and listen forever and some song you really hate is taking 6 minutes of your time loudly and proudly not crawling in a hole and dying. Well, actually, radio doesn't play 6 minute songs -- except with online personalized stations i.e.: Pandora, if you like 6 minute songs........... -- at least not 6 minute songs unedtied. Well, sometimes they do I suppose. I think the radio edit of Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" was apprx 6 minutes. If you wanna balk at that, just change the station already. It's a freakin' awesome song unless you just don't want beauty in or around you. The stations that play ugly music are somewhere further over yonder. Well, that's not necessarily so. There's a station in my old hometown that played a genuine MIX of genres and it was always an annoyance when they'd play a really really really good song and then follow it up with some "I'm too sexy to care about you" type song.
Man, this blogpost is never going to end. Y'all still reading it? Ugh. Sorry.........
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