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I Can Has Gypsies!

Ya'know, every now and then you really can find the darndest things at Volde-Mart...

Now, anybody who has ever had a gander at their music selection knows--it sucks. It's mostly pop, rap, or country, and when they do have the good sense to have metal it's usually edited, and they never offer the un-censored version. Ever. Any music in any other way moderately spiffy (such as, say, Rasputina or The Dresden Dolls) is out of the question. Or that could just be because this is a Rural Midwestern Volde-Mart... I don't know if it's the same with the more cosmopolitan breeds or not...

So, imagine my surprise, this morning. I was having a glance at the music section, just to remind myself why I usually don't, and there I saw it...

Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta! hiding all alone behind a few CD's of the random generic swill one becomes used to finding at Volde-Mart.

Me: *blinks* Ummmmm... *pokes it to make sure it isn't really a trap rigged to explode when picked up by (relatively) innocent bohemians, then leaps to hide behind a passing fundy*.

CD: *doesn't explode... in fact seems to be rather confused itself as to why it's here of all places*

Me: *edges out from behind said fundy and lets the poor confuzzled thing go its way* Well... Okay... You look hungry, little fella. Want to come home with me?

CD: *springs into my arms with a cry of relief*

Mind you, I hadn't in fact heard them before tonight, but I'd heard good things from like-minded individuals with similar tastes in music. I'm so... so glad I grabbed this. Take your basic accoutrements for a normal band and add things like accordions and violins and give them a gypsy-punk sound and songs with silghtly-drunken, jubilant, and rather witty lyrics in imperfect English, and that's these guys.

 Marvelous... marvelous! I feel like I should be dancing the Mamushka...