Always one to be swayed by media hype, I decided I'd quite like to own this record, so I set off to buy it. Now, being stuck in an office somewhere off the M60 for most of the week, there aren't many opportunities for buying records. The only shop near the office is a massive Morrisons, so I tootled in on Monday lunchtime, but Kanye's latest opus was nowhere to be seen. Thus followed a week of me visiting various towns and supermarkets to try and get hold of the album.
As well as Morrisons in Chadderton, Kanye's album was nowhere to be found in Tescos in Halifax and Haslingden, Asda in Rawtenstall, the whole of Accrington town centre and the whole of the Rossendale Valley.
Now, I know I didn't visit any actual music shops. But that's because they're not there. Accrington doesn't have a music shop. Rossendale doesn't either. Kanye West is one of the biggest pop stars on the planet, so it's fair to assume that some of the biggest supermarket chains in Britain might be stocking his album. But they're not. And when did WHSmith stop stocking music?
I know I could have ordered it off the internet, but I thought buying it from a shop would be easier and quicker. What a ridiculous idea.
And I don't do mp3s or illegal downloading. Sorry.
Having adopted and 'I've started so I'll finish' attitude, it looks like I'm going to have to go into a town centre that isn't dying on its arse to try and find the new Kanye album. It's a bit of a sorry state of affairs, whichever way you slice it.
In the meantime I've been whetting my appetite for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by listening to it on Youtube, specifically the track Monster, and even more specifically, the verse by Nicki Minaj, where she lays waste to everyone else on the track. When 'everyone else on the track' includes Kanye, Jay-Z, Rick Ross AND Bon Iver, that's no mean feat. It's incredible. Go find it NOW. Go Nicki Minaj!
