Big Star box

Emusic just posted the Big Star box set, which I've been debating whether to buy for weeks now. You can download as much as you want--at least none of the rarities are marked "album only." I've had a big revival in listening to this band lately. Alex Chilton's voice is so sublimely sweet on their records. And I've developed a rather obsessive relationship to the song "Daisy Glaze," in particular, with its lovely elongated and slurred vocals over a barely continuous beat--not to mention the direness of the lyrics, wherein the narrator, upon seeing his lost love with another in a bar, intones, "And I'm thinking, Christ, nullify my life..."

In other news, I just ate a copious amount of corned beef.