Donald Fagen’s new single “H Gang” is available for download on iTunes. I feel a little retarded spending 99 cents for a song I am going to buy when the CD comes out in May. But I just can’t wait until May to hear a new Donald Fagen song.

It’s terrific.

And, yes, I do have my tickets already for the show at the Beacon Theater. I’m in the front row of the cheap section — although at $53.50 a pop, that’s hardly a cheap section. I was gonna splurge for the $92 orchestra seats, but then I couldn’t afford to bring Ann. So now Ann gets to come with me. (Even though she hates Steely Dan. . .but I have a hunch she secretly is happy she is going, from a sociological point of view.)