The Big O No

Because I don't like to deal with Amazon.com and because my neighborhood record shop didn't even have it in the system (that happens there way too often) I Googled this album I've been really excited about, Calcutta Slide Guitar by Debashish Bhattacharya (how can that be anything but awesome, ragas played on slide guitar...damn!), and it directed me to the awesome world that it is Overstock.com. So cheap! And the selection! I got Soft Machine's BBC Sessions , Phil Ochs' Rehearsals for Retirement, Jon Hassell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics all much cheaper than at Amazon. I'll always put my local shop first, of course, but if they can't get it for me then I'm going on-line and...the cheaper the better, thanks. And besides, my on-line binge led to a little brick and mortar binge (is this the "trickle down" theory of the Virtual Age?). You see, breaking my one-CD-a-week rule left me so weak and dizzy I walked into another favorite neighborhood record store, Wall of Sound,and bought three discs without even blinking. Of course it was easy to justify--they were the brand new, "just-in-yesterday" limited-run Sublime Frequencies "Axis of Evil" releases (check out that label immediately if you haven't.) And with Tuesdays release of The Craft by Blackalicious...I am back in the broke business. (But, seriously, poke around Overstock.com. I've heard they even sell furniture...)