Check It Out

My new favorite disc is Walking Concert's Run To Be Born. The front man is Walter Schreifels -- there's a slim chance you know him from his previous outfit, Rival Schools. Schreifel's vocals remain as distinctive as they were with RS, but the finished product is a polished Brit-like pop that offers quite a contrast to his previous work.

BTW, I bought the disc from ModernRock.com; I found them via Yahoo Shopping. Their inventory is definitely a hit-or-miss proposition, but at $11.55 with shipping, their price was well below everything else I'd found. But what really struck me was their repeated pleas to "help keep prices low" by clicking "responsibly". Apparently Yahoo charges "click fees" that can really add up when customers browse titles, and that are applied even if no sale is made.

It got me to thinking about "responsible clicking" more generally. One of my New Year's resolutions was/is to refrain from clicking on any entertainment news headlines, no matter how juicy. Clicking only feeds the horrible monster that is tabloid journalism. Your clicks count, probably at least as much as your vote, so click judiciously.