Money doesn't talk, it swears

I called into HMV in Mansfield at lunchtime today to pick up the latest installment of Dylan's Bootleg Series.

Collating outtakes, unreleased versions, and live tracks from the period covering Oh Mercy and Modern Times, there are some great tracks. The double CD was £15 - there is a 3 disc set costing something like £90, which seems somewhat excessive - more annoyingly it seems not to have turned up on the torrent sites yet. There are few artists whose latest offering I will go out of my way to buy on the day of release, but Dylan is one.

The cynical pricing of the full set is
depressing, and I doubt I'll be alone in combing the net for a dodgy download version in the coming days.

I've also ordered the new LP by Neil Halstead, on the strength of the terrific tracks to be heard on his MySpace.

Via the generous folks at eMusic, I have been busy downloading - paid for! - albums by The Bug, TV On The Radio (didn't get on so well with that one), Steinski and Bomb The Bass - yet another album featuring Mark Lanegan, the man must never have a day off.