(photo: Myspace.com)
One of my fondest memories of last summer was reading Black Postcards, the memoirs of Galaxie 500 and Luna founder Dean Wareham. His engaging writing style and unique perspective on the tediousness of the tour-record-tour cycle was totally engrossing, and his recollections of the writing and recording some of the seminal American indie albums of the last 50 years made me go back and explore some of what I’d missed out on.
Just the other day, I got a curious little message in my inbox telling me that all three Galaxie 500 albums, Today, On Fire, and This Is Our Music, are being remastered and re-released on vinyl. I couldn’t think of a better way to experience these brilliant dream-pop albums than as the wax platter they were originally made available as. There is a slight drawback, though: the price. For $9.99 you can get a deluxe digital copy of each album as 320k mp3s or Apple Lossless files; at $24.99 you can get the digital version plus it’s vinyl compatriot; and for $69.99 you can amass all three vinyl albums, plus their digital downloads, and a cool t-shirt you can wear to impress your hipster friends. Can I afford $70.00 for some vinyl records and digital downloads? Probably not the best use of my money, seeing as I went out of my way to track down a CD copy of This Is Music that cost me more than I bargained for, but I’m thinking I may shell out the bucks for a copy of On Fire along with the t-shirt. hey, you have to keep up with your hipster friends, right?
Full details and ordering instructions for the re-releases can be found here. Happy Fourth of July, my American cousins! Don’t overdo it on the franks and brewskies.
MP3: Galaxie 500 “Fourth of July”
Myspace: Galaxie 500
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Holy shit, I must have been drunk when I typed this post! There’s a ton of errors. Very unlike me. I hope you were drunk enough that you didn’t see them.
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