It's Cold

Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Thursday, March 9. It's currently minus 21 Celsius. Feels like minus 31 Celsius, which is a minus 21 f's for my any of my f folks out there. It's just like crazy cold.

Hence, the title is just it's cold because it's so cold your brain can't think about anything else. This episode of Daily is brought to you by FeedPress. Visit feed.press/daily today to try out podcast hosting, RSS analytics, blog feed redirection, all that kind of stuff. 100 megabytes of file storage that's unmetered and rolls over each month. So don't have to worry about getting dinged if you all of a sudden get super famous and popular.

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So keep my mouth shut, try to talk about it when it's actually happening. Shippers ship or something like that. Today is March 9 like I said, and which happens to be my son's birthday. So happy birthday Mason. Not quite his royal birthday I think it's called, but he's been on the podcast a few times talking about Lego and things.

And also happens to be the thirtieth anniversary, your birthday of, when U2 released their Joshua Tree album and, to celebrate maybe to celebrate my son's birthday, but more probably, more likely to celebrate, the fact that their record label and they want to make a bunch of money, U2 has released, special deluxe editions, anniversary editions of the Joshua Tree for, paltry, you know, hundred and seventy dollars, hundred sixty nine US. You can have the seven LP, seven record deluxe box set which looks there's a a nice box that the set comes in. Looks amazing, and or with a whole bunch of stuff. Links will be in the show notes if you wanna go buy it and, or buy it for me. The, there's the $119 four CD super deluxe box set, which contains a lot of the same kind of things just isn't, LP version.

There's the, more normally priced $19.99 US 2 CD deluxe set and, or you can just buy a t shirt or any combination of the above I guess. So, the YouTube fans on on the Internets are, freaking out about what to buy, what to preorder. It's all preorder right now available in June. I'm sure we'll be talking about it on the YouTube podcast. Goodstuff.fm/atu2 is where you can find that and links to subscribe and iTunes and all that kind of stuff.

So it's it's something I tweeted a bit about like the idea of a band that's obviously done very well for itself, continues to do very well for itself, charging a lot of money to its fans for things, which is fully within its their rights to do. But it feels like what I'm after out of all this is there's some remixes to 2017, you know, remixes of songs and and b sides and things that are harder to get legally these days and things like that. And so I I'm torn between feeling like that's a lot of money for something, even if you are a hardcore fan of somebody And but would I feel different if I had lots of disposable income? And that's where like, am I just sad because I'm the fear of missing out, know, woe is me. I can't afford to buy the shiny thing that everybody else is buying.

Or is it do I have like legit issues with sort of the it feels a bit like a money grab, at the prices they are. Like it's a it's it's gonna be a really this isn't a knock against people who are buying. I have lots of good YouTube fan friends who are preordering happily and preordering multiple things on on the list, spending lots of money on YouTube this year. So I'm just sort of wrestling with is my uneasiness with it just sort of a bit I don't know like I could. It's not like I can't.

I could spend whatever that would be Canadian 200 some dollars on the seven LP deluxe set or whatever If I really really really wanted to and, you know, make sacrifices elsewhere in terms of other things that but we just don't have obviously the disposable and that's where a lot of the YouTube fans are. They're just making the choice to spend the money. It's not like they're super loaded and have just $200 hanging around to drop on a bunch of YouTube, merchandise today, but they're just making a choice that they'll sacrifice elsewhere in order to be able to buy this kind of stuff. That's fair. And I support a band like U2 or whoever having decent ticket prices that allows them to make money off their concerts when they tour and when they put out an album to have, collector's editions and things like that for for fans.

The same thing with video games. I fully support that idea. It's not just a money grab. Fans are are anxious and interested in getting a, limited time offer or a special collection of the thing. It just guess in this day and age and we'll see what happens in June when this is actually released with, which actually will be after the concerts have started just realizing, what sort of digital versions they make available as well and and that's why I'm happy to wait for you know a $30 digital collection of just the music is all I'm really after.

I'm not a big collector of stuff, real world physical things, with things I'm a fan of. Now, the Edge's Fender Strat Guitar on the other hand happily would plunk down a couple grand for that one. Whatever it is, probably more than a couple grand. But I digress. This is not a guitar podcast nor is it a weather podcast.

I aim to keep getting at least an episode out of the week, if not more. Like I tweeted the other day yesterday, I was hoping to get one out yesterday and combination of work and I don't know a little bit of anxiety over life stuff and maybe a little bit of depression kind of stuff. It just kind of stops me mentally before I can even hit record or even think about hitting record. Once I hit record and get the thing done, don't really care that it goes out in the world. I'm not agonizing over the words I've said three minutes ago, but just like it's a such a very first world kind of problem of like, feeling too whatever, sad or anxious to just hit record on a podcast.

And, so anyways, head down, get some work done, work on the new site, build building forward into building into something hopefully that we can, be proud of, Kyle and I and everybody else involved with good stuff and, looking forward to what's next. So thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me on Patreon. If you do, patreon.com/ichris. Follow me on Twitter, I'm I Chris on Twitter.

And, I think that's it for now. Thanks for listening. Bye.