June 27 2023

Remember to order Earlier and let your web browser (not a submersible) take you into the deep sea. I almost drowned at the beach when I was a teen and that was enough to scare me straight. Lose once to the sea and it’s hard to hang on to the hubris. Compress all the billionaires, now, and remember that the record labels love nothing more than selling you music that they (and possibly you) already own. When people say “catalog,” don’t think about how old it is, because that’s not how labels think. What appeals about older titles is they don’t require any outlay—they’ve been paid for, so any income they generate is pure profit, minus the small upkeep fees of, say, engineers fluffing up the master with Atmos.