Retail Therapy: You Win Again, Satan Best Buy!
After a tough day yesterday, I went wandering the streets trying to busy my mind. It was risky going in to Satan Best Buy. Surely they had a copy of the Best Buy Exclusive package of David Gilmour’s Live in Gdansk. It’s a Best Buy Exclusive. Of course they’d have it in stock by Wednesday, wouldn’t they?
I entered the store and started wandering. A, B, C, D, E, F… G. Gilmour. Okay, there’s the two-CD set I already have. There’s the standard DVD Remember That Night. There’s the Blu-ray Remember That Night that I got from Amazon for $15 less than Satan Best Buy sells it. Wait… what? What the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? They still don’t have their own exclusive fucking package? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
I should have walked, boys and girls. I should have fled, but I didn’t. I went and found one of those blue shirt cunts. First I found some boy who needs to lay off the caffeine. He looked it up in the computer, which indicated the store had 8 in stock. He called to Mr. Pony Tail and Mr. Frizz. They all three looked at each other with their thumbs in their fuckin’ rectum. Finally, two of the three opt to ::wait for it:: GO LOOK FOR THE FUCKING BEST BUY EXCLUSIVE DAVID GILMOUR SET THEY’RE FUCKING ADVERTISING.
And then the miracles happened. It didn’t take Mr. Frizz three days of scouring the store. He was back within 3 minutes, holding a pretty David Gilmour box. They had it, they found it, and it only took three trips and three SBB Blue Shirts to find it. I was tempted to not buy it, but to instead go hide it somewhere in the office furniture section or some never-traveled area of the store. I decided against it. I wanted the box, so I dutifully trudged to the counter and checked out. You win again, Satan Best Buy. There’s a hot poker waiting for your ass in the abyss, so we’ll see who laughs last. Fuckers.
I was thrilled to see that on the bonus third CD, Gilmour played “On The Turning Away.” That’s one of about three tracks I like from the post-Waters Pink Floyd. Unfortunately, Gilmour is uncharacteristically hoarse and he actually cracks up when he and the band fuck the song up. Nice, Dave. Fucker. Oh, and no “Learning to Fly?” Thanks a lot. Fine. I’m sure some of the other stuff on here is good, although I can’t understand why I need songs already on the first two discs repeated on the third. Whatever. I’m sure some of it is excellent. I love the 2-CDs I’ve already heard. I’ll give it all a listen at some point today.
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Well, at least you got it . . . hey, you DO use the Best Buy store-stock look up thing on their site before you go to the stores, right? Saves a lot of headaches, but not always - sometimes they still have no idea where things are.
Be glad you bought the box - I didn’t realize it, but the downloads available on the other versions are MONTHLY. Meaning, you get one track per month for a year! That blows. I’d rather pay extra and have all those tracks up front (on CD) now.
“Learning To Fly” has always kind of sucked live, unfortunately. It’s got all those cheesy, spacy “lazer” sounds in it and all in the live versions I’ve heard. They just overdid it - played straight, it would be fine, as I love the original (it was the very thing that got me into them in the first place.)
And I still maintain AMLoR is a great album if you leave off the awful “Dogs of War” and both “New Machines.” The Division Bell is still a spotty album, but I still enjoy the hell out of most of it from time to time.
I am glad I bought the box, although I think it was a real mistake on Gilmour’s part to not err on the side of providing the entire concert on CD and DVD. It’s usually the other way around and I’d much rather the CDs be complete than the DVDs, so that’s nice. Still, in an expanded set there’s no reason to not provide the full experience.
“LTF” isn’t that great on DSoT, so maybe it just doesn’t translate live as well as the studio edition. Great, great song though. Roger Waters can fuck off. It was worth PF staying together for that song alone. I also like “On the Turning Away,” so a decent version of that from this tour would have been nicer than the fucked up version. What was the point of that?
I might try listening to AMLoR with those songs excepted. Then again, isn’t that like 1/3 of the album we’re chucking?
Nah, it’s like 10 minutes - the very same 10 minutes I’ve been skipping for 20 years. The only annoying thing is the segue from LtF into DoW and the rough entry into “One Slip” (another favorite - killer break in the middle from Tony Levin on Stick there, if you’ve ever wondered what that unusual sounding “bass” was.) This album goes from good to great with three clicks of a mouse in Itunes now.
Ah, dammit, now I have that song in my head. “The dogs of war don’t capitulate . . . ” Gotta hand it to Gilmour - not many can find a way to shoehorn in a word like that.
I wish he’d fire himself and his wife as lyricists and go find someone to put words to his songs for him.