Today’s “Music Monday”  – when I go to the metropolitan library website where they feature Freegal.com – a legal website for free music downloads. When I saw the article in the paper about this feature, I was delighted, ecstatic, feeling good. To say I’m music-dependent is to say I like books.

Well, the first day the feature was available, I searched for favorite musicians and lo and behold, they had one! Not only was I able to find what I thought would be an obscure artist, I was able to find an album I thought I’d have to consider lost for good: Rich Mullins’ recording – Brother’s Keeper. More about him and that recording in another post. To be proper, the cassette of the favorite recording was on its last go around and the replacement cassette wasn’t in much better condition.

Getting back to the point, today was Monday and I was allowed to find three songs to download for the week. Previous weeks I had a plan. Today, there was no plan and that led to more time browsing through the various lists than I usually spend. I believe there was an hour and a half lost in the search. Sad, I know.

I began with my favorite genres – Jazz, R & B, Pop and didn’t see anything that struck out as a ‘must have’. Then I browsed through Rock. Some of the group names are too strange for words, things I don’t think I could have imagined or made up on my own – and I’d like to think I can be creative. Some of the names are not printable here (I believe in keeping my blog a “G” rating) and others had me shaking my head.

So, instead of having a plan in place – a collection of same-titled songs or a featured artist or recording, the three choices this week were random yet – for my poor little mind – sensible still. They are fun songs, things to keep this writer’s mind spinning while awaiting an order from an online store. When that order arrives, I believe I shall definitely indulge and share.

Until then, I don’t think I could chance browsing in a music store proper – too many choices and too many oddities. At least at the library (where FREE is a very nice price), if the music doesn’t strike the right note, it can be returned before it is due. Never mind the fact that I could thoroughly confuse myself and check the listings of something like CDNow.com or iTunes.

Maybe I’ll just select a CD off the bookshelf instead….