Music News (You Heard It Here First):
So I was browsing the audio CD’s at Barnes and Noble yesterday . . . no, no, I don’t usually do my music shopping at Barnes & Noble, but I went there to get Lawrence Lessig’s book, Code, because I couldn’t find it at my local independent bookseller, Politics & Prose. Typically I buy my CDs at DC CD in Adams Morgan. Hipster cred established? All right, moving on…
So, Barnes & Noble has this new thing where you run the UPC code of any CD under a scanner at the listening station, allowing you to listen to any clip of any CD in the place. Which, by God, I have to admit is pretty cool. Is there someone who’s job is to rip every CD in the Barnes & Noble inventory? The only catch is you only get to here a 15-20 seconds or so of each track, but at least they don’t necessarily start with the first 15-20 seconds.
Like I was trying to figure out the name of the infectious Weezer song I heard the other day, and the clip I received was the chorus allowing me to confirm the buzz-jangle goodness of Weezer’s “Keep Fishin’ ” . . . the video [Real format] to which, for the record, stars the Muppets. I love that Rivers Cuomo can’t keep that “I’m-singing-with-Kermit” grin off his face during the video. Who could?!?