Buy Me Something!

    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.* 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 ~ [email protected]  ~ 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  Get full access to Peter Alsop’s Substack at peteralsop.substack.com/subscribe