The Resistance
15 September 2009
Today the new Muse album, The Resistance, releases. I’m heading to the store to buy it, and hopefully it’ll go better than the last album I tried to buy on release day, Jimmy Eat World’s Chase This Light. We’d lived in Kansas City for literally a day, and I stopped by Wal-Mart on my way to somewhere. I thought it would take two minutes to grab the CD off one of the end caps (or however you spell that), and then I would be on my way.
But I couldn’t find the CD on the end cap. And when I went to the Pop/Rock section, they didn’t have any Jimmy Eat World CDs. Not even their self-titled with The Middle on it. Positive that this was a mistake of mine (8 months of pregnancy does something to your brain, I swear) I stopped an employee to ask where the Jimmy Eat World CDs were. He gave me a blank (stoned?) look. I said, “Jimmy. Eat. World. Their new CD comes out today.”
He scratched his head. “I don’t think we have it.”
“You don’t?”
“Nah. We got Toby Keith’s Christmas album, though. That came out today.”
Talk about not knowing your audience. I would venture to guess only two or three people purchased both Chase This Light and Toby Keith’s Christmas album.
I went down the road to Target, who had them stacked on their new releases shelf. And that’s where I’ll be starting my search today. The funny thing is that I’ve already listened to the album about twenty times through MySpace. Which is so different than even two years ago when the only song I knew off Jimmy’s newest was Big Casino.
Okay, time to go shopping. Happy Tuesday everyone!
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