Junk Mail

[muninnhuginn]

Through the post, along with the parcel that meant the postman fortuitously woke us up, came a package with a sampler CD and some marketing bumph for Oi Va Voi. Don't know why it came. We don't remember ever requesting it. We don't recall the band. Still, before it gets added to the one day this will be a suit of armour collection or used as a drinks coaster, we play it. It's very fine. Very fine indeed. A little short to put on continuous play.

Thank you, oh gods of direct marketing, for sometimes (and we mean sometimes as in very rarely if not absolutely never) sending something interesting! You never know we might (might as in adds to the Amazon wish list and think about it for quite some time it being almost Xmas and all that) think about buying the CD.

Comments

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

They played at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival, so it's possible that if you ordered your tickets by post you got put on a mailing list!

Good Thinking!

[muninnhuginn]

Ah! Bought the tickets in person, but I am on the Corn Exchange's Mailing List. So that could be it. I'm not, for once, going to complain!

I got home to find a copy waiting for me

[groliffe.livejournal.com]

and I'm also on the Corn Exchange's mailing list, and can't think of any other list we'd both be on, so that's probably it. Since you recommend it I might actually listen to it rather than turning it straight into a disposable coaster...

Re: I got home to find a copy waiting for me

[muninnhuginn]

The only other thought I had was that it was mailed to recipients of the Radio 3 world music newsletter. But I have rather more faith in the Beeb not sharing their stored info and I don't think they have my home address anyway. (I'm on lots of emailing lists, but almost no others. Personally addressed junk mail (as opposed to the kind addressed to "The Occupier") is almost nil so this really was an event.)

I've decided to buy the CD (it's on Amazon and I've not bought a CD other than piano music in a couple of months). Sometimes direct marketing does work.