That is the question.
Lets back this up for a moment. Van Halen is my favorite band of all
time! In fact I pretty much don’t
even listen to music if it’s not Van Halen. I saw them twice
on their last tour, and at least once on every tour since 1995. If you are keeping
track, that’s’ 5 shows, plus the Daive Lee
Roth/Sammy Hagar show dubbed the “Sans Halen”
tour. I even once painted my computer to
look like Eddie Van Halen’s guitar. I should find photos of that.
But I digress…
I am left with a dilemma.
When I bought my first Van Halen album back in 1991, I had two options: Cassette or Compact Disc. Having
just received a CD player for Christmas that year I opted for CD. Come to think about it, I think I got that
one through one of those Columbia house deals in a magazine. Do they still have
those? You get your first 7 CD’s
for a penny, then you buy 3 more at regular price, unless you sign up a friend,
then you get two more at half price. But
if it’s a Tuesday and you are wearing green pants there’s
a bonus disc you get for half price if you buy two more at regular price…
What can I say… It was the 90’s. That’s the decade when Nirvana
was popular. A lot of bad decisions were
made.
But I digress… again.
Times, and technology have changed. I honestly cannot remember the last time I
actually loaded a CD into any type of device for listening purpose. Come to
think of it, I don’t remember the last CD I purchased
in physical form! Why? Because ever
since iTunes, I can download music faster and cheaper than it would take me to
drive to Wal Mart, purchase it and even if I play it in my car, let alone bring
it home to play it on my Bose system.
Speaking of playing CD’s in my car. The Neil Diamond Christmas (do you get the
irony?!?) album has been the only disc in
my car stereo for at least two years now.
But I digress... Oh
you should be used to it by now.
At one point I had a shelf with every Van Halen album
sitting on it in order of release date.
So aside from greatest hits compilations in which I only downloaded the
newest songs, I have the complete
set. But what’s the point of physically
owning music? Will “A
Different Kind Of Truth” be the first Van Halen album that won’t
be on my shelf… not that I still have that
shelf, all my CD’s are in a box in a closet. But I do like to read liner notes.
What do I do!?!?!
Please vote in my poll!
Van Halen’s new album “A
Different Kind of Truth” will be released on February 7, 2012
