These days I can download whatever I want from iTunes™ or wherever,this only serves to highlight the artless businessman aesthetic that dominates our age. One in which anything can be dispassionately viewed as commodity suitable for trade.

This of course includes all cultural and artistic artifacts and associated entities, including the very lucrative younger teen-based demographic who have considerably more of their parents' income at their disposal than they do sense.

To these individuals, who of course make up the vast proportion of the market and who therefore drive its marketeers, there are no rituals associated with hunting down rare records or even CDs. The new generation plug in and download albums by the gigabyte, often knowing and caring little about the people and ideas behind the music on their hard drives. Or of ever seeing the artwork on the cover.

This state of affairs suggest an End of History, at least in as far as it concerns music. All subsequent conversation about music is therefore at best pointless anus-gazing, at worst insulting to the memory of rock journalism, lyric sheets, limited edition gatefold sleeves, well crafted pop songs, the Melody Maker and John Peel.

So given the bleak post-modern context, here is all I can offer you - a listing, in XML format, of all the MP3s I have on this computer. It kills me to say this, but it’s best viewed in Internet Explorer 5 or above (you don't get the functionality to view hierarchicaly, arbitarily show/hide nodes etc. in Safari 2.0.4...). Come ON Apple!

Incidentally you may find opening the file takes a long time in IE - it was hanging on a one year old G4 Powerbook with 1.5GB RAM earliers.
Nerd Note: shows how memory hungry the DOM can be!
MP3 Listing [about 5MB]