...and it's relative the Ego-Wrappin' album. These animals are very rare in this area of the world but some have reported encountering them here in the US.
But seriously. So yesterday I was in the city and I checked out two music stores (one of which proclaimed it had hard to get CDs and records) and BOTH of them didn't have either. I've checked kinokuniya (a Japanese bookstore chain) before and you would think they would have them. But no, apparently the music is even obscure to Japanese-Americans. So, last night as I was browsing for a sweet sixteen present at the local Barnes and Nobles, I learned, through one of those nifty item search machines found in all big bookstore chains, that Barnes and Nobles DID actually sell, not one, but TWO albums from Soil & Pimp Session (and additionally, as I've just confirmed two ego-wrappin' CDs. well 1 1/2 because one of them is currently unavailable). However, when I asked a sales clerk (who was talking about an early Adam Sandler show and how bad it sucked with his sales clerk buddy earlier. or listening to his friend talk about the show. I'm sorry but I was looking for Gray's Anatomy DVDs. But not for me for god's sake!) if the CD was in stock, with a perplexed expression on his face (which was understandable because the album is called 'Planet Pimp' and sounds like some ridiculously explicit rap album and I'm a strange Asian girl wearing pants with a snake-skin print. I mean I should've been used to this sort of reaction, after asking two other clerks at the other stores if they had "Soil & Pimp Sessions". I bet the first clerk was probably asking "why are you asking for rap in a mostly rock store?") he typed in my request into the all-knowing inventory search engine and no result came up. With just the two-letter word "n-o" my hopes and dreams were crushed. Of course I could have requested an order but I decline, half the reason was not to make his job any more annoying (damn you submissive asian upbringings!) and the other half was because I wasn't even sure if my mom would allow it (again i repeat...damn you submissive asian upbringings!).
Sorry for this horribly long rant. Please do not misinterpret; all of the stores I've mentioned are not terrible. Both of the stores in the city (one was called Rebel Rebel...i forgot the other one...) have large varieties of music and Rebel Rebel DOES have rare, hard-to-get, albums. I mean the small cramped space is just a paradise of vinyl records...it just didn't have the albums i was looking for....And the other store had the most awesome fat cat in the world (I'll try to post my camera picture of it.). And Kinokuniya delivers nostalgia to any Japanese immigrant and tickles the fancy of any Japanphile (me included) with it's selection of Japanese books, stationary, magazines and novelties. And Barnes and noble is good in its own large bookstore chain way (although I prefer Borders). So thank you, whoever you are, for sitting through this crazy rant. If there is anyone XD
~Zeeta
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