This album was an important part of my early musical education, recommended for me early in my college days by my best friend, deceased just for a year as of 2 weeks ago, so I'm understandably nostalgic about things like it.
As a former disk jockey and music director, I've got a pretty large music collection, all of which has been digitized for well over 5 years now, so if I own it, it's on my computer. Unfortunately for me, even in 20 plus thousand songs, the only copy of "Medicine Show" I had owned other than the original cassette Greg made for me was a bizarre-o 12-inch remix that just wasn't going to cut it.
Five years ago I would have fled to Napster or Kazaa/Limewire, etc. where I'm sure a decent copy of the song I remember could be found. They aren't really that obscure of a band, and it was on a major label, so somebody out there is bound to have posted it at one point or other. Five years older, and in the iTunes Music Store world of today, I decided to first look there before I fled to the wilds of free. Ten minutes and $7.92 later I've got it and near instant gratification in one ear and the soundtrack in the other.
see on iTMS.
Who loses? Comcast/Encore, as they had no way to leverage my interest in their content into cash in their pockets. Who wins? Apple/Big Audio Dynamite, as they made it possible for me to enhance my experience for a reasonable price on my schedule. And I spent that extra money even after already owning a copy of the DVD box shown below, and Ennio Morricone's most excellent soundtrack, containing The Ecstasy of Gold, the song I chose as my debut track on the nominally 80s radio show on WNRN-Charlottesville I helped create back in the mid 90s, Les Temps Perdue.
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