It's so goddamn expensive to be a musician. Why is a repertoire book $40+? Why? *How*????? It's not even that much music! And it's the same content as the other versions of the book, just with digital backing tracks. You'd expect the CD edition to be more expensive because you're paying for physical ownership of the tracks, but apparently not- in fact, it's $20 cheaper than the digital version. Absurd. I'd be willing to bet they're only upcharging the digital track version because they know that's the edition most people would prefer to buy.
So, to avoid the strain on my wallet I have found other ways of getting sheet music. Er... totally legally LOLOL.
I have an extremely disorganized "favs" playlist that has a chance to give people severe whiplash when they listen to it. Now, *I* think there's nothing wrong with it... but that's probably because I made it. It's also, as the name suggests, a collection of some of my favorite music that I've listened to over the past two or so years.
I'd link it here, as sharing small parts of myself is something I've always been very open to, but as my "about" page states it feels very wrong to me personally to link any extending socials beyond just my email (even if my other socials are not difficult to find). There's also something freeing of not being immedietely tied to any previous online escapades because I'm too lazy to overhaul my preexisting socials. So, what to do?
I have a couple ideas I've been banging around in my head blender the last few days. I could individually link each song in a section of this page dedicated to this playlist, but I dont want to hastle through overhauling this page and then spend four days fixing this site after it inevitably breaks. To add, there's also the issue of time. What to do if a link breaks, or otherwise stops working? It'd require constant checking to ensure what I've linked to actually still links to something in the first place. I could suck it up and just link the actual damn playlist... but to betray my set of arbitrary and childish morals in the name of convenience and a simple solution to a problem that is only a problem because I made it so? Blasphemy.