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To Record Label Execs

© Joe Jeskiewicz

Brace yourselves. There are nefarious sources on the internet for getting music that you don't have to pay for. That's right, websites exist for the sole purpose of trading music without buying it. Perhaps this is old news. Perhaps you've already known about it, done it, downloaded it, gave it up, and went back to creating art. But why in the first place did we do it?

Was it perhaps because maybe we sort of don't want to pay 16 to 20 dollars for a CD when all we really want is one song from it and the single is hard to find or unavailable? I know that my wife will get a CD and pick two songs off of it that she likes and beep the CD player up to those songs and play them over and over and over again. She still have CDs that she had bought before she even knew me that I've asked, "How are these songs?" To which she replied, "I don't know, I never listened to them."

The music artists must love my laziness then, because when I stick in a CD I let it play, even if the song I want to here is in the middle of the CD I used to let it start from the beginning and play to the end. On occasion I'd find a song or two that I liked along with the one I was searching for, but thanks to my wife, that habit has been dropped. So just like her, I blip and bleep through a CD's tracks until I hear exactly what I want to hear and click off it goes and another CD pops in.

Oh, how wonderful it was however to write a CD. Searching through all the CDs we owned between the two of us to create one CD of a ton of songs that neither one of us wanted to advance through in push button fashion. A CD from cover to cover to borrow a phrase. What a great idea to listen to just the music I want to listen to. And I must sing a praise for the MP3 player (even though I think that technology still has a way to go for ease and speed of use). The MP3 player can be switched and shifted and popped plipped and fandangoed. In with the new music out with the old, I listen to what I want to listen to when I want to listen to it and if I get tired of a song, not a problem, it gets switched out with what I DO want to listen to.

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