are you lightning?

so today i left home early to swing by jb hifi before work and see if they had the new nada surf lp. i was pretty sure that they wouldn't have it in yet. when the weight is a gift came out, they didn't get it in until about a month after it was released here. this is why i went to jb in the morning, so if i didn't get it there i'd know to be able to walk over to red eye during lunch.

i checked the shelf and there was nothing, the one copy of karmic they had was gone too. i went over to the counter to ask if they had it in and just hadn't put it out yet [seeing as they had only been open for five minutes at that point]. this was my mistake.

the guy who must've been the head of the music department came over and bought me to their computer. and then the lecture began. in his 20 years in the industry he's never heard of an australian cd being released on a tuesday. i shouldn't just read websites that say worldwide release on a certain day because we're ahead of america. and because there's no australian release for this album, we'd have to wait another week til they got an american release.

i just nodded. too lazy and too late for work by this point to argue that the barsuk website had specifically mentioned that the australian release would co-inside with the european release. and that the north american release was later.

i got to work and called red eye records. he was so quick to answer my question with "it's being delivered today" that he didn't have to look it up, which i took as a good sign.

lunch time came, and after dealing with a pesky connect outstanding i moseyed over to king street . i scanned the new release section and found chris walla's album, but no nada surfers. oh well, i thought. i'll wait til tomorrow.

i went to the counter to pay for field manual, and asked about lucky. the lovely little emo girl said that it was probably out back. she went away for a moment and came back with nada surf's fifth long player in hand. i just about squee'd out loud.

i really felt like taking the cd over to jb hifi and telling him to stick his worldwide release date up his ass. it wasn't the fact that they didn't have the cd, it was the patronising lecture i got. just because i was wearing a suit and i work in telecommunications doesn't mean i don't know anything about the record industry.

shit like this is the reason why i want to open my own record store, and it makes me more determined to. i want a place for people like me to buy rad music that is hard to find in franchised store.

anyway, typing this out and talking to peeps about my job issues [which is a whole other entry] has taken the whole cd, and half of the bonus disc to complete. i think it's time for bed