Poor Judgement Call #1: Buying Songs on Impluse

Imagine this scenario. You're listening to music at a party, maybe you've had a couple too many drinks and you think to yourself "Hey, whatever song is playing right now is THE BEST SONG EVER!" So then you proceed to Shazam the song, fail, and then either find the source of the music to try again or ask blindly to your fellow party goers "Hey, you have any idea what song this is? Because it's brilliant" (How sloppy you sound is up to your imagination.) If you're lucky you find out what this tune of the gods is, you decide to download it or buy it when you get home.

But once you've gotten the song and you've played it ad nauseam, you begin to realize that this song that you've bought/stolen is absolutely terrible. And it's not always a song that you're tired of and will like again a couple months from now, it's absolute crap. Now if you've been a pirate and managed to get this song for free then no harm done, but if you're like me and have shelled out the 99 cents or $1.29 on iTunes for the track, then you've realized you've made a pretty poor investment. Sure it seems trivial and cheap at the time, but it can really add up.

Now this just doesn't apply to drunk iTunes purchases (never thought you'd read that in the same sentence, did ya?). If you listen to Songza at work or the gym and decide a track is worth having in your library, but then you play it too much to really enjoy it, you can end feeling the same nagging regret. It's not the guilty pleasure that you sometimes have with certain songs, it's just guilt. If you don't do this then congratulations, you're not making terrible life decisions like I am. But it's something that despite telling "Future James" not to do, he manages to download an entire album of heavy metal or synthpop that really was good that one time. Stupid Future James.

Will I ever stop buying songs on impulse? Probably not.

Now have some of The National, because that's a band that's always good.