8 min listen
Buy Me Something!
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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Dec 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Today's song is 'unusual'. Actually, many of my songs fit into that category! "Buy Me Something" is on my CHRIS MOOSE HOLIDAYS album. It's great for discussing the trappings of capitalism, and how we and our children can become trapped and addicted to shopping for things obsessively and compulsively. After hearing this song, parents would often say, "My children already know this song! They wrote it! Are you sure you didn't follow us around in a mall somewhere, because it sounds exactly like them!!" Lines like, "Buy me things of great value, stuff to save, I want giant collections of everything, ever made!" may sound familiar to you too! We discuss how having and owning things in our culture, is an external way we've learned to measure our own worth, not just our financial worth, but our sense of valuing who we are, our importance to our family and community, and how the capitalistic system reduces our lives into quantifiable dollar amounts, and that is what truly impoverishes us; emotionally, socially and spiritually. Check out my SONGS TO CHEW podcast. It's free. I'm Peter Alsop. I'll be back with a new song each week.
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* Follow this Songs To Chew podcast ~ subscribe - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peter-alsops-songs-to-chew/id1446179156
* My new CAMPING WITH DADS album! ~
https://www.amazon.com/Camping-Dads-Peter-Alsop/dp/B08CS871QW
* E-mail/ Website ~ peter@peteralsop.com ~ https://www.peteralsop.com
* http://www.FaceBook.com/WeLikePeterAlsop
* Youtube.com/peteralsop ~ videos
* Patreon.com/peteralsop ~ support my music, podcast & other artistic endeavors
* CDs & downloads ~ http://www.peteralsop.com/music
Released:
Dec 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Pick One!: This week we’ve got a song for adults and teens. It’s "Pick One!" from my Disciples Of PerFection album. I got the idea from a discussion with my grown daughter Megan, … who has always impressed me with her clear thinking and balanced way of seein... by Peter Alsop‘s SONGS TO CHEW