What's everyone else being charged for FYHC? I've just returned from downtown where it cost me £9.79 for the CD in Coda. That was kind of the cheapest place I could find; Avalanche, where my loyalties normally lie 'cos of a good bloke I know who works there, are doing it for £9.99, so it's only because of severe financial difficulties that I need to scrimp and save just now whenever possible. Well, to be honest, I just spent the 20p difference on a packet of Polo Fruits. But anyway, Avalanche don't open until the back of 11 anyway. And like I said, it's my sad musical trainspotter nature that demands I buy all the new albums I'm after on their first day of release, and as soon as possible; then thereafter there's a kind of extra special attachment to them, y'know, 'cos of all the older music that I normally listen to, whenever I buy a brand new album it's like I was there at the time it was around at. There's probably a far better way to explain that, maybe one that actually makes grammatical sense to start with, but you know what I mean. In the past, albums I've bought on first day of release include Monster & New Adventures by REM, What's The Story Morning Glory, The Great Escape by Blur, A Thousand Leaves by Sonic Youth, OK Computer by Radiohead, and (whisper it) Blue Is The Colour, at the height of my Beautiful South phase....and there is a special feeling about them all now, and I can remember what I was doing at the time too. Anyway, that was fairly long-winded. Right now, I've had the good fortune to find a free computer in our college computer lab which has a CD player attached to it, so this is my first listen through the album as I type this. Obviously, I can't take it in properly this time, so what I'm listening for this first time through is mostly the musical arrangements, which sound really nice; Isobel's voice, beautiful as ever; and whatever lyrics I pick up. So far, Stuart singing a line like "it was the best sex she ever had" sounds hilariously risible and ill-suited to his wee voice, but no doubt it'll make better sense once I can get a handle on what the song's actually about. And I haven't heard too many vocal harmonies like what I just heard in "Don't Leave The Light On Baby" from B&S before; that was lovely. No doubt it'll all turn out to be a good grower. Anyway, I should go and do some studying towards my Media Studies exam, which is at the "we'll shove you artsy fartsy wasters in wherever there's space" time of half past five this evening. And thereafter bask in my personal life finally settling down again, thank goodness, after a lot of stuff being sorted out the other night. Phew. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+