Symptoms of MP3 Culture Part 345296

Symptoms of MP3 Culture Part 345296: I just caught myself congratulating myself for being late to a record – not only not hearing the Wiley record until it’s in the shops but mostly avoiding the web talk on it, so that the gorgeous, gorgeous value-label Kanye-Westism of “Special Girl” caught me totally by surprise. Actually I think it’s the weather – Spring is good for the record industry, there’s something so wonderfully right about buying a new CD in the sunshine and filling up on it all at once walking through Green Park or up Tooting High Street or just around, slowing down on purpose so I can get just one more song in before I get to wherever I’m going. PS It’s a great record! (“Yeah, duh, thanks Grandad.”)

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