Ryan McFarland

Free CDs

Originally uploaded by zieak

I enter sweepstakes and order freebies. Every now and they a really good freebie hits. We received a CD today totally free.  If you act by the end of the month you can get one too.

Go to the Zantac site that is giving compilation CDs away.  Pick your titl and enter a Zantac UPC from a box of Zantac.  (If you look online you can probably find one.)  A few weeks later the CD arrives!

About two weeks ago a new CD appeared (audiophonically appeared that is) in my car. I had been enslaving Earl to help with some work projects since he was between jobs - or, as i like to call it “underemployed.” So we dug post holes and assembled bleachers and painted dugouts with this mystery CD playing 9 tracks repeatedly. A few songs stand out from it though. Oh - and the CD was from a friend of Cena & Bailee that promotes bands so it is a mixture of stuff.

The Beats, Man have a catchy tune called Beats Mand of Horses with a chorus of two fellows yelling at each other “get your horses out of my garage! get your cars out of my horse stable!” It turns out that one of our other favorites from the CD is also by them — Freedomtown. In listening to their myspace profile page songs i also really dig the song I Don’t Like Noise Bands.

Their stuff is sort of punky and electronic too.  Don’t ask me about musical genres though.

Sometime in the early 80s i was in a record store in the Eastview mall (actually it seems like it was in Sears but i don’t remember them selling music). Mom was trying to sing part of a song that we were trying to buy on tape. The employee had no idea what song it was. Thanks to the internet we can now just do a quick search. I didn’t even know any of the lyrics. But fortunately the song made someones list of the best space songs ever. Enjoy. And mom, the artist is Peter Shilling and the song is Major Tom. It was a follow-up to a David Bowie song that had a less happy ending.