Hey! What’s shakin’? Not too much I hope.

This is just a quick post to let you in on something that I just discovered. Maybe you already know, maybe you don’t. I had heard Amazon.com was selling MP3s now, but never bothered to check it out. I’ve bought all sorts of crap from them, but never MP3s. The wife was recently looking for this album by a group from the 80s called the Stabilizers:

It was only released on vinyl (look it up kiddies). Being younger than the wife, I’m not up on these “records”. Apparently they are some sort of large compact disc with grooves in them? Very strange.

I was hoping I could find it on CD for her somewhere. I tried eBay, and they had loads of them, all on “record”. I tried a rare music store – Gemm.com. It looks like it was only released on CD in other countries. They had one listed for $100(ish). I’m not Bill Gates, so I didn’t buy it.

I thought about searching for it again today, and just for the hell of it I tried Amazon. They had it! $8.99 for the album with no DRM, recorded at a bit rate of 256kbps. I never would have thought they would have something hard to find like that. I bought it, downloaded it, listened to it for a few seconds, and threw up a little. If you are looking to take a white knuckle ride on the Vomitron, here’s the link to buy your own copy.

Hopefully the wife will like it better.