I like to do things a little differently
In Colorado the other week, I was having some intense emotions, and I got in my crappy little rental car and went for a drive. I heard two NIN songs on the radio. I had a craving for NIN. So I went to Borders, no kidding, to buy Pretty Hate Machine to chill to in my hotel room. Of course, they didn't carry it. Then Ministy's "Jesus Built My Hotrod" came on the radio and I was distracted from my desires.
I was never a huge NIN fan in high school, mostly because I hated anything everyone else liked, and that included being able to find "freak" music that was still too mainstream for me. I had The Downward Spiral on tape. And Further Down the Spiral. Then I was introduced to Pretty Hate Machine, and my whole world changed. I own that on CD, and it is still one of my top ten albums of all time. Even if I had a boyfriend who said the "Ringfinger" perfectly summed up our relationship (gawd, how much more pathetic and self-serving pre-emo can you be???), the album is amazing. It is so bitter towards women and relationships and life, but so rocking. I adore it.
So, in Colorado, I realized that I only own one actual CD. Some other stuff on tape, but my collection is lacking. I don't even own With Teeth, and Max and I love that album (I think she was supposed to get it for me used).
Last week, I used up my remaining credits with BMG (I badly want to cancel my account) to order everything in the NIN library. I am now spending my afternoon ripping mp3s and re-discovering the music of, oh, only a decade-plus ago. The live album And All That Could Have Been is fantastic.
I was never a huge NIN fan in high school, mostly because I hated anything everyone else liked, and that included being able to find "freak" music that was still too mainstream for me. I had The Downward Spiral on tape. And Further Down the Spiral. Then I was introduced to Pretty Hate Machine, and my whole world changed. I own that on CD, and it is still one of my top ten albums of all time. Even if I had a boyfriend who said the "Ringfinger" perfectly summed up our relationship (gawd, how much more pathetic and self-serving pre-emo can you be???), the album is amazing. It is so bitter towards women and relationships and life, but so rocking. I adore it.
So, in Colorado, I realized that I only own one actual CD. Some other stuff on tape, but my collection is lacking. I don't even own With Teeth, and Max and I love that album (I think she was supposed to get it for me used).
Last week, I used up my remaining credits with BMG (I badly want to cancel my account) to order everything in the NIN library. I am now spending my afternoon ripping mp3s and re-discovering the music of, oh, only a decade-plus ago. The live album And All That Could Have Been is fantastic.