Guilty Pleasure

I dropped my son off at school today. Normally I leave for work too early to do so, but I had time this morning.  On the way I was flipping through channels on XM in the car and he yelled "lets listen to this!" when I turned on XMU (the indie/college rock station).  I’ve taken pride in exposing him to music outside of the "children’s" genre and the fact that one of his favorite songs is by The New Pornographers ("Testament to Youth in Verse") is somewhat a point of pride. I think there was a Shins song on, then a break where they mentioned that channel 59 was now all Led Zeppelin.  No! Way! Asked him if he wanted to get the Led out and got no complaint.  I love my XM radio*.

I hate to admit it, but Led Zeppelin is definitely a guilty pleasure.  I’m not the type who’d be rocking out to it from the comfort of my Monte Carlo (or Camero) , nor do I have velvet blacklight posters at home, but Led Zeppelin serious kicks ass. My guess is the station is tied to an overall rise in Zep marketing – they’re doing a big reunion concert in London and re-releasing all of their recordings as a huge box set.

[* First one to leave a comment telling me how much better Sirus is since they have Howard Stern gets a boot to the head.  Why people want to listened to some dude tell a joke, then laugh at himself, or worse, have five others laugh with him for 30min before the next joke baffles me.]