Mark Collier

I’ve been spinning the hell out of this MGMT record all weekend. (formerly “Management”)

On the 4th of July we had a BBQ and my friend Carlos, who just moved back to Austin (they all do), had come over and I handed him the keys to the Sonos to DJ. Carlos is one of the biggest music fans I know, which is saying something after working at Musicmatch and Yahoo! Music for 4 years, so naturally I was a little apprehensive my 100 gigs of music would stand up to the scrutiny. The first thing he says is “you don’t have any management”. ‘Doh!

MGMT was the best band I saw at SXSW this year (thanks to Kirker for convincing me to go). They played at a small venue, the Rio Grande (an odd Mexican Restaurant transplant from Boulder, with suprisingly great food and very strong ‘ritas). After they rocked the house, I have been listening to MGMT quite a bit over on hype machine, but haven’t gotten around to acquiring the record.

So, fresh off the shaming from Carlos, I bought it on Amazon for $7.99 on Friday and loaded it onto my iPod and the HTPC that powers by Sonos at home (thanks to no DRM this bit of internal family sharing is not only legal, it’s actually convenient!). I guess this is referred to as “buying music”, something I’m trying to reacquaint myself with after years of subscription music.

I have to say that I’ve already gotten way more than $8 worth of value out of this purchase! This whole buying music thing is not as bad as it sounds. One of the tricks for enjoying music is to find something my kids dig (read: will dance to), and it’s an added bonus if Dianna likes it. MGMT fills the bill!

Here’s a taste:

Buy the record at Amazon: