Fri, 25 Jan 2008
I was driving home, switched over to KUCI. Heard a great song, went home to find out what it was, it was the Magic Bullets. The song was called 'Heatstroke'. I wanted to own this song because I'm sure I'll want to hear it again and again, on and off the internet. This song is one of those magically droning Stereolab-y 2 and 4 on the snare drum drive across the country songs that additionally seems to hold some of the zeitgeist of today in it. I bought it first on Snocap on their MySpace page. It was easy enough, just hooked my Paypal account into their engine and downloaded the track, at 192k. When I played it, I noticed it sounded like crap. So I found their album for sale on Amazon and downloaded the track again at 256k. Amazingly noticably different, thicker, more powerful and more real. I suspect that whatever Snocap uses to encode their tracks, besides the file being of lower quality, is of low quality itself. Avoid Snocap, use Amazon and listen to the Magic Bullets.
