Zoot Allures . . .
Emusic.com now has about 50 Frank Zappa albums for download. At one point in high school, I probably had thirty of these on vinyl, even some of the rare ones. They all got warped into oblivion in the back of a car in college during a move. I eventually replaced about a dozen with CDs years later, only to have them stolen from my truck. Zappa is a musical hero of mine, and I think it’s interesting how his later “modern” electronic material still sounds fresh. That, and “Joe’s Garage Vol. 1,” which is still extremely relevant. Yeah, I’ll probably buy some MP3s, but some hacker will probably raid my hard drive and make off with them.
UPDATE: Good news! The Emusic Zappa MP3s are high-rate VBRs, as opposed to the “OK” 128kbps standard downloads I usually get from this service. Bad news: No Joe’s Garage.