Poor impulse control

I don't think I've gone music shopping in a store since I moved, so went up to Baltimore for a Sound Garden run today.  My rationalization this time is that I need new music for a roadtrip in two weeks....of course, that road trip is to a music festival where I'll undoubtedly buy more new music, but that's beside the point. I didn't find everything I was looking for, but did get a lot of stuff from the used bin to flesh out missing items, a few new releases, and some more vinyl double-dips.

The score:

• !!! - Strange Weather, Isn't It?
• Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been
• Half Japanese - Sing No Evil
• Jaill - That's How We Burn
• Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
• Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica [vinyl 10th anniversary edition]
• Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree [vinyl]
• New Order - Movement
• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream
• Scott Pilgrim vs. the World soundtrack
• The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
• Xiu Xiu - A Promise

Coming soon: Hopscotch Fest!

Top Five

As mentioned by a friend, NPR this week blogged about all-time top fives.  I guess the best way for me to figure this out is through my last.fm stats, even though this misses out on anything I listen to at work (Zune doesn't scrobble my stats) and in the car (cds).  I have a feeling if it did, it would skew more towards some newer items that I don't listen to as frequently while at home.


(I'm going to scrub out duplicate artists; otherwise there'd be two Talking Heads and two Bright Eyes songs.)

#1: Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime.  This would probably still stay #1 no matter what.

#2: Interpol - Obstacle 1


#3: Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have to Love

#4: Residents - Fire Fall. (Dear god I wish I could search for Residents videos without getting a bunch of Resident Evil crap.)

#5: Can - Tango Whiskeyman

I bet the buttons on their facebook page are meta

I love Amazon's mp3 store, and they're having a ridiculously dangerous sale of 1000 albums for $5 each in August.  I just casually browsed for a few minutes the other night and wound up spending $20, I'm afraid to go back and look at the full list.

So far the best thing I grabbed has been the album Release Me by The Like.  They're like a 1960s girl group with modern indie pop sensibility.  Totally peppy and fun!  I first heard them a few months back when they were the opening act at a Futureheads concert; I probably should have bought the album then.  At $5, it's a steal.