51 minutes, 32 seconds

Oil in the Eye
The Surgical Fatherland

Part of the reason I'm writing this blog--and maybe when I started it, this was more a subconscious reason than a conscious one--is the imminent death of the compact disc. Of course, people have been talking about the end of the CD era for a while now, and retail sales of CDs have been falling steadily as downloaded music (both stolen and paid for) emerges as the medium of choice in the age of the iPod. And downloaded music tends to mean songs, and not albums or even EPs. And who cares about total time for an individual song? (For that matter, who cares about total time for a CD, besides me?)

So as heavily invested in CDs as I am, there will come a day when I'll have no choice but to download music I want to purchase. And I'll have to figure out some other way to listen to it, because "total time" will become irrelevant. So is this blog an elegy for the compact disc? Maybe, on some small level. It depends on whether you think the CD will limp along, like the LP, as a collector's item. Or whether it'll just disappear, kidnapped from record stores, like the poor, forsaken cassette.

Also today:

51:32 Vinterriket, Winterschatten
51:31 Lupercalia, Soehrimnir
51:31 Unter Null, The Failure Epiphany (CD 2 of 2)
51:30 Institute for the Criminally Insane, Gekippt
51:29 Black Lung, The Grand Chessboard
51:29 Corvus Corax, Venus Vina Musica
51:26 Triarii, Ars Militaria
51:25 Image Transmission, Filth
51:25 Niyaz, Niyaz
51:24 Le Triste Sire, Effusions