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On the way to work i’ve been rocking some tunes on one of those mid-sized gadgets with white ear bud listening dealies that you can fill up with songs from the computer. My newest album that I compare to old things I have called favorites, is a record by Spoon (the band) called Gimme Fiction.

Nerd rock jorunlaists say:

#14 Seller of 2005! Spoon make some of the catchiest, most confident rock ‘n’ roll of any group around. Their fifth full-length is nothing short of a dizzying, soulful masterpiece, easily the most expansive work in their career. Gimme Fiction is a sprawling, exhilarating, filler-free album of keenly focused artistic vision and ambition.

And I have to agree. I did think the word ‘confident’ just today as I was going through a big parking lot when the tune They Never Got You played. And then I got a little bit dizzy and exhilarated too, but I did have a weird microwave frozen breakfast sausage/egg/muffin sangwich for breakfast so maybe it was that.

Anyways, here’s the real point of this: I also thought, “Gosh I kind of really like these Spoon guys, they seem to be quite confident and soulful. I really wish there was a way I could reward them for that!” And then quickly I thought about purchasing a hard shiny plastic disc in a hard shiny plastic sleeve, upon which these keenly focused works of musicianship had been inscribed with a laser beam. But “No,” I thought right away after that, “I am already in posession of this filler-free artistic vision, right here in this mp3-capable device. But still I wish I could somehow reward the guys from Spoon.”

What if their page on the internet had a “Gimme five bucks” button? Do you think they’d get five bucks from me if I clicked Amazon or Insound on the computer and entered my Mastercard numbers? I kind of doubt it. I just want to give the guys from Spoon five bucks, and the guys from the Crimea too because I know I can’t even buy the circular plastic version of all their songs without converting currency to the Euro. But they shouldn’t be prevented from me giving them five bucks either.

Right?