Sinister: new single - ulp!

[Lawrence Mikkelsen]

hey Sinisterinos

once again, a question about downloading B&S music, although this time
I shall phrase things such as to not offend Honey or potentially
infringe copyright.

OK, firstly, how come no one told me that there was a new B&S single
out today? Jeeze!
Secondly, can anyone suggest a legitimate way I can get a crisp,
digital version of "Whiskey in a jar", the b-side from the 7". A copy
of said record is winging its way to me as I write this, but I'd
really like to iPod-ise it, and have always found that the transition
from vinyl-to-MP3 is
a) a pain in the arse
b) terribly time consuming, and
c) not that satisfying from an audio point of view.
My issue is that pretty much every legitimate download service is
unavailable in New Zealand. iTunes isn't, and every other service I've
tried have spat the dummy as soon as they see my credit card billing
address is outside of the EU or US. Any suggestions (or emails with
attachments) gratefully received.

Secondly, there's been little discussion about "Late Night Tales"
compilation and I was wondering what people thought? Personally, I
think it's a bit disapppointing. It could (I think) have just as
easily been called "Chris Geddes: Late Night Tales" rather than "Belle
& Sebastian: Late Nigth Tales". OK, so making a mix like this is
probably a consensus exercise between seven people with quite
different musical tastes, but I can't help feeling like they tried a
little _too_ hard to make it as un-indie as possible. I mean, really,
Stuart has always been very vocal about the music he likes, but other
than "French Disko" I'm wondering where all his favourites are? (And,
again, I know there's more to making a mix than just sticking your 20
favourite songs on a CD) Surely Felt would have made the grade? Or
Orange Juice, or some of the other 80s indie which was clearly quite
an influence. Or something. It's a sad state of affairs when a Steve
Miller band song is my favourite song on the album.

OK, I really should have started working about half an hour ago ...
keep on rockin'

Lawrence
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