Almost a year one of my favourite WoW bloggers posted a song on his blog and having really enjoyed it I tracked it down and bought the album.
Not long afterwards I was chatting about music with a Swedish friend, Thomas, in WoW and mentioned Silly Wizard and offered to send him a couple of tracks. he loved them and came back with a “If you like that, you’ll love this”…it was Afro Celt Sound System.
Having bought the first 2 ACSS albums, I was entering them on a FaceBook music application. It showed me other people who had those albums and, of course, I started clicking and looking at other people’s music collections. This album cover caught my eye and I clicked on it. Along with the album info it pulled up a song from the album on YouTube. I loved it! Once I’d bought it, I sent a couple of tracks to Thomas and, as is his way, he sent me back a couple of tracks of something else.
The something else turned out to be Hedningarna. I have eventually aquired several of their albums and thoroughly enjoyed them all. Whilst I was waiting for them to arrive I would hit YouTube and listen to some of their tracks. Unfortunately they also do a kind of “if you like that, you might like this” kind of thing.
That was how I found Kroke. It was around this time that Amazon started offering mp3 downloads. It was fatal! Not only could I have listen to samples from each track on the album, I could buy and download it there and then. Instant gratification, how could I resist?
When I enthused to Thomas about Hedningarna he sent me a link to North Side. Oh dear, oh dear. Not only did I find some more great music but I found myself at back Amazon. I suppose it’s a good job I’ve never turned on the 1-click feature, it would be even easier to spend more money than I really should. I ended up with the following (not all at once, some went on my wish list and David treated me at Christmas) :
I’m glad BBB doesn’t post music very often, I’m not sure I can afford it! The albums featured here were all aqcuired as a direct result of his post, however once I started exploring I came across other things along the way that I just had to have. Amazon have had a good year out of me and I’ve had to resolve to stay away from YouTube…for a little while anyway 
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