iPod Friday 12

Used to be, back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, you got paid on Friday. You’ve heard that old song ‘just got paid, Friday night…’ and all that, and that once implied that payday equaled blowing your paycheck on a Friday night ‘par-tay’. Now that real incomes haven’t really risen much over the last few years, the national obsession on or fear of losing retirement money and savings, and the fact that companies like ADP have maximized employers’ rate of return on their payroll budget… the likelihood of Friday being payday is less likely, and even if it is, less fun. We take life so seriously these days… the government sucks, terrorists may attack any moment, and that 35th cup of coffee might give you cancer of the phlegm glands. I’d drink a Rusty Nail* if it didn’t cause an instant hangover.

With that happy talk over, on to today’s selection. DJ Shooter runs a retro-80s blog that has nice little DJ sets he’s put together of old hits, often by theme. By request, he put one together for me. The theme is money, or ducats, or Benjamins, whatever you want to call the stuff that pays the rent. I was going to tie all this in to running by complaining about high shoe prices (true), climbing race fees (truer) and the like, but it’s Friday and I’m too damn tired to stretch metaphors again. So use the link below and hear the money mixes from back when life wasn’t perfect, but maybe a little more innocent.

DJ Shooter’s 80s Money Mixes

*Rusty Nail = 1/3 Drambuie + 2/3 Scotch + Ice. Heaven.