this morning before coming to work, i downloaded This Bird Has Flown which is a tribute album to the beatles in honor of the 40th Anniversary of Rubber Soul. if i haven’t gotten on my knees lately in praise of the god-like substance that is the iTunes Music Store, consider this my penance.

the marketers at Apple are freaking geniuses. they really, really are. i work in marketing, you think i’d know better, and yet i cannot resist the pull of Apple’s evil propaganda. Target, they are evil-geniuses too, and i cannot resist them either.

so while i had popped into the music store because i wanted to read about the iTunes Essentials: Indie Rock Love Songs (which, incidentally listed “I Will Dare” as an essential love song), i ended up buying the Bird album. i don’t know how it happened. i blame it on their evil propaganda, and not on my weaknesses for Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo, and Ben Kweller. the album isn’t even supposed to be released until next week.

Apple makes it entirely too easy for me to just oh, you know, buy a CD before work. don’t they know that i cannot deny myself anything and that i have a problem with delayed gratification?

that being said, i’m really kinda digging the Bird Soul album (as i have come to call it). the Ted Leo cover of “I’m Looking Through You” makes me tingle in places that cannot be mentioned on a family Web site such as iwilldare.com. just trust me it’s pretty rad. it’s really rad when you compare it to the kinda shitty Liz Phair album that i bought last week or the week before (which i’ll write about some other time when i’m not busy listening to ted leo and tingling)