Way To Go, Asshole Best Buy
So I was feeling real bad and I was about to give in, so I went to Satan Best Buy to buy the Satan Best Buy exclusive 5-Disc package of David Gilmour’s Live in Gdansk set. Let me emphasize the words Best Buy Exclusive. Let me explain the concept exclusive. Exclusive means you’re the only asshole on the block that has it. So, if a fat fucker with no self-control were to wander in to the local Satan Best Buy store and the Satan Best Buy store didn’t have any of the exclusive item, why, he’d find himself in quite a pickle.
Some of us are slow learners. Some of us would go back to Satan Best Buy a second time, hoping that UPS had corrected Best Buy’s oversight and brought them some fucking copies. A second time, I walked away empty handed.
What. The. Fuck. You see, motherfuckers, this is another reason I hate retail exclusives. What manner of inane, incompetent bullshit is this? I finally got mouthy with the little Blue Shirt idiot the second time I went up there. Unacceptable.
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This is Fate telling you to wait for the Blu-ray.
You may be right, Matt. This may be God’s way of telling me to wait. I’m not inclined to go back to the store a third time
That would be exactly why I decided to not tempt fate yesterday morning and placed an order to be picked up in-store. I had absolutely no faith they would actually have enough copies in stock to meet demand after reading some stuff on the Gilmour blog about stores not ordering enough copies in Europe. Can you get them to order you a copy in-store and hold it for you? If not, I could pick up a copy for you and mail it to you. The stores around here seem to have them (of course - the one time I actually order something they DO have them in stock.)
That’s a very kind offer, Tom, and I thank you.
What I should have done when I was rebuffed on my first trip at lunch was to come home and do one of those in-store pickups. That would have (perhaps) saved me the trouble of the second trip.
Now that you’ve told me about the missing “Shine On,” I’m having some second thoughts. Plus, what’s this about “Wot’s Up?” I’m disinclined to spend $50 and not get everything when I already have the 2-CDs and spent nothing.
But! But! But! That exclusive CD Best Buy has offers some pretty great stuff to make up for what’s missing on the concert DVD. (Of course, the lesser sets offer a pass to get mp3s of the stuff that’s on the CD, but I’d rather have the CD and extra atwork in the book, box, etc. That was worth the extra $10 or whatever to me.)
What I’m so pissed about missing on the Gdansk show is missing seeing the unique opening to “Shine On” played on wine glasses (you can see it here on crappy bootleg video), which is shown momentarily in the doc in Remember That Night. It is such a haunting opening, I really wanted to SEE it being done in context.