Stylus has posted a rumination on The Runaways' non-hit "Dead End Justice". Great. Awesome song. What about the hip kids that have heard of The Runaways but haven't heard The Runaways.
Where do they get this music? At their local Musicland/Record Town/Camelot? Tower Records? Retailers are going the way of the dinosaur and the stuff is mostly out of print.
Mom and Pop Shop? If you can find a used store AND you have a turntable AND they have the vinyl, you better be ready to pay some real cash (ah yes, but the pride of ownership...).
I guess itunes is the way to go, right? No such luck. Of all The Runaways' offerings on itunes, I'm afraid "Dead End Justice" is not one of them.
Music is more accessible now than it ever has been, except it isn't. The beauty of "the jams" is in the details, and "Dead End Justice" is definitely "a detail" in the short lived career of The Runaways. The beauty of "the jams" cannot be measured by how many remixes of Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" you have on your ipod (mine total 5, the Bamboo Remix being my favorite), but in the rock details that are available to those that crave them. The set up is always more interesting than the payoff (Batman Begins: training to be Batman > Batman fighting the Scarecrow thingy). What am I trying to say? Oh yeah...
Ask me if I'm a grape.
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