I'm So Happy I'm Going to Join a Band

The complete Led Zeppelin collection: $99.99 on iTunes. Hm...let's investigate.
"This 165-track collection contains all of the group's studio and live recordings plus the new album, Mothership."
All of their studio tracks: amazing. Live recordings: pretty cool, would have been better as DVD with concert footage if this were a physical collection. Mothership:... wait what's that?
"Led Zeppelin's Mothership is a 24-track collection of the epochal classic rock group's best-known songs"
So we would get stairway, kashmir, black dog and the other 21 songs again. Some even for the third or fifth time (including live recordings and BBC sessions). But why? It doesn't add to the price: we should be paying $163.35 for $0.99 songs. Mothership costs $14. Mothership doesn't contain new recordings of the songs, they're "hand-picked" by the three remaining members.
Mothership occupying approximately 127.9 MB of a hard drive (yes that took a long time to make a Mothership playlist and drag Early Days/Latter Days (deleting only three) and add four songs from the Box Set albums), which on my MacBook (from the first batch of MacBook, with only a 60GB HD) is a lot. Kidding. So, I guess if you don't have any Led Zeppelin collections or box sets this is a perfect chance to get all of their albums and recordings. But I don't need it because I copied my cousin's Box Set 1 and got 55 tracks from four cd's with a lot of shit I didn't have previously (from just Early/Latter Collection). That's nice, though: if my hard-drive crashes at the beginning of this summer, too, and I lose all of my music, again, I can just drive to Dayton and thief his music. But with the iTunes store, you need to back your shit up to an iPod, external HD, or buy backup CD's/DVD's (thank god I had my nano last year).
Sorry for rambling on towards the end and it must feel like ten years are gone now, but hey what can I do, I'm just trying to find a way to show all of my love for the greatest band in the world.
Final thought: White Summer/Black Mountain Side is worth $99.99 to me, so get it!

Third Time's a Bitch

Or charm. This is the third time I've started a blog (with the same title, address and template), but for some reason I keep deleting them. I've been reading a few blogs lately and they've really had an effect on me. Two are from teachers at my old High School of Princeton ('06!). The second time I tried to keep to my blog was at the beginning of my freshman year, but I deleted it because everyone else was doing it. So this time I need to actually add to the internet.
Oh, and the title comes from my favorite quote from my favorite episode of one of my favorite shows: Invader Zim, Attack of the Crazy saucer people (close to its actual title), Saucer Person "What about that pig out there?"
Agent Government Man (He came from the government. The government sent him): "That's a government pig"