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During a back and forth email conversation with droidy she chucked in a quick comment saying new radiohead tracks were going to be played on JJJ. To say I was quick to load up the online streaming to catch a track would be an understatment.
I had read last week that a new album "Hail to the Thief" was to be released on June 10. Now from their last 2 albums, I knew I could download the album about 3-4 weeks prior to release. In fact, for the last two albums I had done exactly that. I then went and bought the albums on release, Amnesiac I even bought twice.... But this time.... it is more than 9 weeks until release..... I was really quite amazed. Normally leaks of albums occur when the album goes to the factory to be pressed, but at 9 weeks it is possible that it isn't even mastered fully yet. So I thought, "hmmm, someone close to the band has leaked it", which may or may not be the case. Needless to say I grabbed a copy as soon as the recently upgraded link at work could give it to me.....
This is all happening in the middle of an afternoon at work, I'm sick.... but with people on holiday or on training I didn't feel it right to throw it in and go home. When the album then fell into my lap, I felt slightly rewarded for staying at work.
The time is now 22:46 and I have all the lights off (except the light from the monitor and the glow of the recently updated computer), I sit here listening to a new radiohead album. I'm liking it, in fact I'm really liking it... With droidy@tennis and the lights out, I'm feeling in my own little world and the music is all there is..... She shall return soon, and I think she will go into a similar little world, but with me holding her (and most likely going on about how good the album is).
Thanks to radiohead for another dose of Music-that-Decay-likes™, and I'll be first in line come June 10.
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