Just Can’t

I’ve faced this moral dilemma several times and I’m facing it again. I really want a digital copy of John Cale’s version of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. Cale’s version is the real version. The version that made the song immortal is the one recorded by the late Jeff Buckley. But it was Cale’s arrangement of the song that transformed Cohen’s original song, which is magnificent but different. Buckley more or less copied Cale’s arrangement. He slowed it down and made it more lush. But fundamentally it’s Cale’s version. But here’s the thing. It’s not on Spotify. (Fair enough, Spotify is a rip-off for artists). But to buy the Cale version on iTunes you have to buy the full … Scrubs TV Soundtrack! Right, not even a whole album but the indignity of buying the Scrubs soundtrack. It’s really too much. So here I am again, home alone with my thoughts, listening to Cohen and Buckley, unable to buy the Scrubs soundtrack.