The Pixies, at the start of their reunion tour, way the fuck back in April, were contracting with a company to produce live discs of their shows, that were immediately available following each concert. Evidently, that was only for the first leg of the tour, because when they got to Kansas City, they weren’t doing it, and I haven’t been able to find that show anywhere, despite scouring every BitTorrent site I could lay my beady little eyes on.
But god bless Frank Blank and company, because they’ve finally wised up and made the shows available online. For the low, low price of $11.99, you can download 256 Kbps mp3s of the shows, starting on September 30 of this year. Coincidentally, the Kansas City show was October 1, so I just squeaked in under the gun.
Sure, it’d be nice to to be able to order them, a la Fugazi and their live cd series. Because, really, an mp3 is still an mp3, and if I’m dropping 12 bucks for a download, I’d at least like lossless media format, such as FLAC or something. Then again, I’m a geek.
pixies tourThey came through Nashville, TN, and played the Ryman Auditorium. That show was just so great. The crowd was flipping out the whole time.