White Tiger’s Lair

I just got Missy Higgins’ newest album “On a Clear Night” (http://www.missyhiggins.com/).  It is good, especially “Where I Stood”.  I think your favorites are always the songs you hear first, so for me that would be “10 days” and “Scar”, the new ones have a different feel, but great none the less.  I have been a fan of Missy Higgins since I first heard her while living in China, but it has been a while since new songs have been released and I had simply stopped searching for her when looking for new music.  So it was interesting that I actually heard about this album through one of the blogs I read where it mention the new album and her tour “Green” through the US.

It used to be that I would automatically go to Itunes to get new music, but that is no longer the case.  I lost my Ipod over Christmas (left it on a plane from SFO to NWK) and was rather annoyed to realize I could not get a cheap replacement mp3 player because too much of my stuff will not play on anything but an ipod and Itunes would charge me a significant amount of money to “convert” the music I have already paid for, which to me is absolutely ridiculous.   So from now on I will only buy DMR free and if I can’t find it then I can live without it.  Both Itunes and Amazon have her new album available for the same price (interestingly the cd is available for more than 2X as much), but as the I tunes version was not clearly labeled if it was Itunes Plus or not, Amazon it was, and will probably be for the foreseeable future unless a better option is developed.  The sound of Apple losing market share because they did not react fast enough to a changing market….