Mini-blog #1: New Music

Recently I made my first purchase from Wicked Cool Records, which is a smallish NYC label owned and run by none other than "Little Steven" Van Zandt, the lead guitar player for the E Street Band.  (The oldsters among us may remember Steve B.D.--Before Do-Rag--back in the 1970s, when he wore a straw pimp hat and was called "Miami Steve" for reasons unknown.  Those were the days.)

Anyway, my point here is that I got two exclusive 45s, from Wisconsin-via-Brooklyn rock quartet Locksley and from Danish garage band The Breakers, both with--wait for it!--non-album B-sides, the singular joy of my early record-collecting days.  Thanks to the satellite station Underground Garage, I've heard these and many more, and now they're mine...all mine!  *rubs hands together gleefully*

The other objective of this blog is to let you know that the service was crazy fast.  I emailed them to let them know that their delivery was faster than Jimmy John's, and I'm not kidding.  I ordered my goodies online on June 30, and they were waiting in my office mail yesterday, July 5.  Wow! 

And as if all that weren't enough, they sent me a Wicked Cool sampler of bands I've already been infected by...uh, I mean, amazed by, through listening to the station and the recorded radio show!  Thirteen artists, fourteen songs, all at no extra charge.  It was almost worth the $7.90 shipping (only $2.90 of which was the actual postage), but hey, people did their job and did it fast. 

The only quicker way to get these would have been to steal them.  Just kidding.