I hate to say this, but I’ve been in a bit of a CD buying funk lately. I went to Tower Records down by the Space Needle last Thursday and, despite spending way too much on CDs, didn’t really come home with anything all that exciting. The last CD I’ve been genuinely excited to get was Depeche Mode’s “John the Revelator” single (and I’m still recovering from the kick-ass UNKLE re-construction). I even received a bunch of CDs that I ordered from SecondSpin on Tuesday, but most of those felt like filler CDs that I felt I should have or wanted to check-out or something along those lines. Additionally, the last few times I’ve walked into Everyday Music I’ve left without even going through all of the just-in bins after nothing immediately strikes me.

That was until last night when I headed over to get the new MSTRKRFT album, The Looks.

After checking through all of the new release shelves and not finding it, I was feeling really disappointed. I have really been looking forward to this album since I started checking out the MSTRKRFT remixes last fall or some time like that. But for whatever reason, Everyday Music didn’t have it. Woe was me.

Then I started aimlessly wandering along the electronic section, when I saw something I couldn’t believe at first: Goldfrapp’s “Ohh La La” club promo CD single. This single was a promo-only release (i.e., making it extremely difficult to find and a pretty rare find) and I’ve been dying to get my hands on it for a long time. I’d been searching eBay, but when I did see a copy of that CD the price was often well over $30 and I couldn’t quite justify buying it.

Ultimately, I did end up downloading pretty much every remix on the promo (Peter Rauhofer!, Tiefschwarz!, two by Benny Benassi!, Phones!, and Andy Bell from Erasure!) — how could I not??? While I did buy some legit “Ohh La La” remixes from iTunes, I admit some of them weren’t so legit…

But then last night I was lucky enough to find a real copy of the promo for only $5!!!

Yes, I was quite excited at this find and am certain that the CD buying gods/fates/time influencers/etc. sent this CD to me as a signal that I shouldn’t lose my faith in buying new music… though I still have to figure out what to do about The Looks. I guess it’s time to buy from Amazon or something…

Also, as a side note: The fact I did go ahead and download these “Ohh La La” remixes was indeed a good thing. I included the Benny Benassi remix on my latest mix (the “Gay Pride 2006” mix that I have yet to post about) as well as the as-of-yet-untitled “darker” mix which uses the Peter Rauhofer remix. Further, since I was familiar with all of the various remixes, I knew that when the DJ at Neighbours was playing the Rauhofer remix, that the Benny Benassi remix would be better for dancing and stuff. Ever since my friend and I made that recommendation, I’ve only heard the Benny Benassi remix played there.

If you want to hear what all the fuss is about, Hype Machine has a bunch of links to the “Ohh La La” remixes as well as the original (though I’m guessing a bunch have expired). You can also (like I did) buy the “Ohh La La” EP from iTunes. And don’t forget to checkout the “Ooh La La” video.