FanGirl's Dilemma (Torchwood Soundtrack)
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mrwubblesThis only happens to a fan. Truly. Well, maybe it just happens to me. Who knows. I can always claim the chicken wire the brain surgeon filled my brain with was sending me signals from Amazon.co.uk and not enhancing my cellphone reception as originally thought.
Now excuse me while I go listening to the 30sec previews of the soundtrack's 'Jack's Love Theme' over and over again on iTunes and resist the urge to offer to bear Barrowman's children. -lol-
Dilemma:
Torchwood. Lovely show. Loves. Can't get enough. They have finally, at long last, come out with a soundtrack.
Like most fans out there, the thought of your favorite show on CD so you can relive your favorite episodes can make your toes curl and squee like it was still 1999. -lol- And before the day of IPods, Samsungs, and the occasional portable media drive with mp3 capability, getting the CD meant ordering from the mammoth Amazon, battle it out for that one copy on Ebay or scour over CD stores in hopes someone at inventory got sick of ordering BB Mak and Spears and sensibly ordered that Sentinel/Kung Fu TLC/Stargate/Due South/Boston Public/21 JumpStreet (don't ask 'cause I ain't gonna tell) soundtrack you've been pining for.
That was then.
This is now.
Now, Torchwood will be available from Amazon UK in a lovely CD. -insert squee here-
iTunes just now offer it in their e.music store.
...
Okay, subject my PC through a massive download now for $9.99 or wait until Sept 22, 2008 to buy the CD with potential yummy pics for £11.99?
Bad enough I had contemplated buying Barrowman's Broadway soundtrack or that I had debated getting the third season of Doctor Who just for disk five where Barrowmen guest starred. But to find myself torn between enjoying the notes of Ben Foster and Murray Gold's 'Jack's Love Theme' in bytes and binary or in a hot-pressed CD is like asking me to choose behind in hiding in Michael Shanks' trailer or Jared Padelecki's closet. It. Can't. Be. Done.
The practical side of a non-fan would be to choose the cheaper one. Save the planet! Save mankind from chopping down yet another plastic tree to make CD jewel cases that will take up far too much space next to your 8 volume Inu Yasha OST soundtracks! But that tiny seed of darkness, that wee strand of genome that makes us become fangirls and fanguys? It's screaming for the tangible, solid presence of cheap plastic and slick glossy CD booklets in your hands. it's wailing that there might be in that CD booklet the one picture you haven't found when you were cutting up TV Zone, Starburst, TV Guide, and all those UK magazines from Titan that you could scan, photoshop into an LJ icon that will be mimicked, imitated, and copied into comms within minutes!
Seriously, what's a fangirl to do? Instant gratification? Or the materialistic satisfaction of having it, like having the bigger snowblower than your neighbor from across the street?
Never mind the third option whispering to you like Senator Palpatine to get both. -shudder- Yeah, we'll ignore him. No, no, pay no mind to him. Really.
Torchwood. Lovely show. Loves. Can't get enough. They have finally, at long last, come out with a soundtrack.
Like most fans out there, the thought of your favorite show on CD so you can relive your favorite episodes can make your toes curl and squee like it was still 1999. -lol- And before the day of IPods, Samsungs, and the occasional portable media drive with mp3 capability, getting the CD meant ordering from the mammoth Amazon, battle it out for that one copy on Ebay or scour over CD stores in hopes someone at inventory got sick of ordering BB Mak and Spears and sensibly ordered that Sentinel/Kung Fu TLC/Stargate/Due South/Boston Public/21 JumpStreet (don't ask 'cause I ain't gonna tell) soundtrack you've been pining for.
That was then.
This is now.
Now, Torchwood will be available from Amazon UK in a lovely CD. -insert squee here-
iTunes just now offer it in their e.music store.
...
Okay, subject my PC through a massive download now for $9.99 or wait until Sept 22, 2008 to buy the CD with potential yummy pics for £11.99?
Bad enough I had contemplated buying Barrowman's Broadway soundtrack or that I had debated getting the third season of Doctor Who just for disk five where Barrowmen guest starred. But to find myself torn between enjoying the notes of Ben Foster and Murray Gold's 'Jack's Love Theme' in bytes and binary or in a hot-pressed CD is like asking me to choose behind in hiding in Michael Shanks' trailer or Jared Padelecki's closet. It. Can't. Be. Done.
The practical side of a non-fan would be to choose the cheaper one. Save the planet! Save mankind from chopping down yet another plastic tree to make CD jewel cases that will take up far too much space next to your 8 volume Inu Yasha OST soundtracks! But that tiny seed of darkness, that wee strand of genome that makes us become fangirls and fanguys? It's screaming for the tangible, solid presence of cheap plastic and slick glossy CD booklets in your hands. it's wailing that there might be in that CD booklet the one picture you haven't found when you were cutting up TV Zone, Starburst, TV Guide, and all those UK magazines from Titan that you could scan, photoshop into an LJ icon that will be mimicked, imitated, and copied into comms within minutes!
Seriously, what's a fangirl to do? Instant gratification? Or the materialistic satisfaction of having it, like having the bigger snowblower than your neighbor from across the street?
Never mind the third option whispering to you like Senator Palpatine to get both. -shudder- Yeah, we'll ignore him. No, no, pay no mind to him. Really.
Now excuse me while I go listening to the 30sec previews of the soundtrack's 'Jack's Love Theme' over and over again on iTunes and resist the urge to offer to bear Barrowman's children. -lol-
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Date: 2008-08-09 05:04 am (UTC)It was pure accident! I was browsing for an episode to download :).