To preview their sophomore album, Helplessness Blues, due for a May release, indie darlings Fleet Foxes have just posted the record’s title track for free download. It took me a long time to get over my initial skepticism about the band when their first album got so hyped, but it’s hard to deny the lush 70s-style gorgeousness of their country-folk-pop harmonies which come across as equal parts Eagles and Seals & Crofts.
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SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESSÂ “Don’t Worry” b/w “Wheels A’ Spinning” (Sub Pop Records SP77, October 1990)
“Hey Loser. Wanna find some action? Tired of being left out? Here at SUB POP we’ve just started a special club for lonely record collectors like yourself: THE SUB POP SINGLES CLUB. Every month we’ll send you a limited edition 45. All you have to do is SEND US YOUR MONEY. $35.00 for a full year, $20.00 for 6 months. Your subscription begins the month we receive your $$$.”
Yes, I was a Sub Pop loser. I mean, c’mon…it was inevitable, right? Make an offer like that to a vinyl fetishist working in a little indie store at the height of the grunge boom…fucking BLAMMO, you are going to get your sales on, Seattleites! At what amounts to roughly $2.92 per single (or $3.33 if you go for the 6-month sub), and with at least 2 tracks per platter, we’re talkin’ ’round $1.46 per track. Consider that nowadays people are paying 99 cents apiece for these shitty, pathetic, tinny-sounding little downloads with no artwork or sweet colored vinyl to look at.  PFFT! I’ll take my Singles Club & go home, thanks. Wish it was still around, I’d still be a member, dammit.
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