i’m not usually a fan of ringback tones. (it seems kind of lame to force the people calling you to listen to the music that you like. it would be like me having the moosico playlist start automatically when the page loads. and everyone hates that.) but a few days ago, i called somebody who had ‘caring is creepy’ as their ringback tone, realized i hadn’t listened to the shins in ages, went searching through my ipod, only to find that the only shins song i had on there was this one — which i’d never heard before, but that i absolutely loved. between those guitar kicks and mercer’s perfectly pitched screams, it’s no wonder not even the goobers at pitchfork could deny its magic. which, in all fairness to them, is the only reason it was on my ipod at all. shut up, it’s my blog, i’ll bite whatever hand i feel like, thank you. -d