This remains one of my favourite albums of the decade. Hope you like it.

I actually had a burned copy a few years ago but it was a bad burn. Regardless, I loved it and just last week wanted to finally have my own copy. But yea, such a great album.

Bad?

Not necessarily bad, but let's just say the high point is delivered by Robbie Williams.

I only have 28 more purchases to go in 2005 until I pass last year's total.
I really need help.

Harold Budd... Avalon Sutra/As long as I Can Hold My Breath

Old school and timeless. Beautiful in a serious, not beautiful way.

1. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album - 01.07
2. Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (used) - 02.02
3. LCD Soundsystem - s/t - 02.15

just got a used copy of the old mission of burma self titled compilation from this guy selling his collection on amazon for 20 bucks. how exciting!

updated later...

From the Live and Loud album? Brilliant. This is the one where they slam Banarama in the intro, no?

They do, but I think this is just a random live compilation of some sort:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=am ... kmikzsbb79

Not bad for random tipsy purchasing so I could get up in four hours to drive six.

1. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album - 01.07
2. Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (used) - 02.02
3. LCD Soundsystem - s/t - 02.15
4. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak - 02.23

Shiv, your 2005 purchases blow my mind......

February 26:

Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
Devendra Banhart - The Black Babies (UK release)
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin

...

yeah i decided to do a little "catching up". a few of them i could've done without though...

You make up blind spenders proud.....

Im trying so hard to be good, and buy only stuff I really want, rather then what looks interesting or I heard an interesting blurb from....if so, id be around 200 purchases by now myself.

keep up the good work.. life is short, buy hard!

Just registered here after finding my way over from CMJ a few weeks ago. Haven't posted in ages, but what the hell...

January

Arcade Fire, Funeral
Beck, Midnite Vultures (used)
Big Black, Songs About Fucking
Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Bright Eyes, Digital Ash In a Digital Urn
Elvis Costello, Very Best Of...
Death From Above 1979, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Kaada & Patton, Romances
Low, The Great Destroyer
M83, Before the Dawn Heals Us
Mclusky, Mclusky Do Dallas
Travis Morrison, Travistan
Nine Inch Nails, Further Down the Spiral (used)
Pavement, Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe
Pavement, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.'s Desert Origins
VA, DFA Compilation #2
VA, Judgment Night: Original Soundtrack

February

Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
LCD Soundsystem, S/T
Jeff Mangum, Live At Jittery Joes
Modest Mouse, This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing To Think About (used)
Modest Mouse, The Fruit That Ate Itself (used)
Mogwai, Government Commissions
Okkervil River, Sleep & Wake-Up Songs
...Trail of Dead, Worlds Apart

March

Andrew Bird, Mysterious Production of Eggs
A Gun Called Tension, S/T
Hum, Electra 2000
Jethro Tull, Aqualung (used)
Kaiser Chiefs, Employment
The Kills, No Wow
Ministry, Greatest Fits (used)
Radiohead, I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings
Patrick Wolf, Wind In the Wires
VA, Run the Road

It wasn't so much blind spending as thinking about stuff I listened to way back in the day and thinking it still might hold up now and most of the time being wrong about that.

Finally getting some buying done.

MARCH
Trail of Dead :: Worlds Apart
Rancid :: ...And Out Came The Wolves | $8.00 Used
Billy Bragg & Wilco :: Mermaid Avenue | $8.00 Used
Social Distortion :: Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell | $5.99 yourmusic.com
Doves :: Some Cities | $9.99 at Tower
Crooked Fingers :: Dignity And Shame
The Mars Volta :: Frances The Mute
Bruce Springsteen :: Darkness On The Edge Of Town | $7.99 at Tower
Bill Withers :: Lean On Me: Best of Bill Withers | $7.99 at Tower
Kinks :: Village Green Preservation Society | $7.99 at Tower
Van Morrison :: Moondance | $7.99 at Tower

APRIL
Ry Cooder :: Paradise And Lunch | yourmusic.com
New York Dolls :: New York Dolls | yourmusic.com
Aimee Mann :: Bachelor No. 2 | yourmusic.com
The Stooges :: Funhouse | yourmusic.com
Billy Bragg & Wilco :: Mermaid Avenue, Vol. II
Curtis Mayfield :: Curtis
Kinks :: Village Green Preservation Society | 3-disc import remaster
Bob Dylan :: Blonde On Blonde
Ike Reilly :: Salesmen & Racists
Mighty Mighty Bosstones :: Question The Answers | 3rd Replacement

1. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album - 01.07
2. Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (used) - 02.02
3. LCD Soundsystem - s/t - 02.15
4. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak - 02.23
5. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute - 03.05
6. Franklin Delano - Like A Smoking Gun In Front Of Me (used) - 03.09
7. Black Dice - Creature Comforts (used) - 03.09

AC/DC - Back In Black
Add N to X - Loud Like Nature
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bealtes - Yellow Submarine
Beatles - A Hard Day's Night
Beatles - Abbey Road
Beatles - Anthology 2
Beatles - Let It Be
Decemberists - Picaresque
deerhoof - the man, the king, the girl
Elevator - August
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Fiery Furnaces - Blue Berry Boat
Fiery Furnaces - EP
Gomez - Bring It On
Iron & Wine - The Sea and the Rhythm
Iron & Wine - Woman King EP
Isotope 217 - Utonian Autimatic
J Mascis + The Fog - Free so Free
Jale - Closed EP
Jale - Dreamcake
Japancakes - Waking Hours
Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrone
Ladytron - 604
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory
Lali Puna - Tridecoder
Low - The Great Destroyer
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
Mercury Program - From The Vapor of Gasoline
Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration
Mogwai - Goverment Commissions BBC Sessions
Ms John Soda - no p or d
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
New Pornographers - Electric Version
Pixies - Come on Pilgrim
Pixies - Complete B Sides
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes [cd single]
Sleater Kinney - Dig Me Out
Snowpony - Chocolate in the Sun [cd single]
Stereolab - Margerine Eclipse
Tim Hecker - Mirages
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Ween - Pure Guava
Yo La Tengo - Prisoners of Love [3 disks]


latests additions:

Add N to X - Avant Hard
Bjork - Post
Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Ms John Soda - While Talking
Slint - S/T EP
Styrofoam - A Short Album Murder


total: 53

The Kinks - We Are the Village Green Preservation Society (CD-R)
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City (CD-R)
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (CD-R)
Sigur Ros ( ) (CD-R)
Pinback - Summer in Abondon (CD)
Eels - Electro Shock Blues (CD)
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State (LP)
Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway (LP)
Wheat - Per Second, Per Second, Per Second...Every Second (CD)
Bob Marley - Catch A Fire (LP)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (LP)
Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum (LP)

1. Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album - 01.07
2. Lift to Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads (used) - 02.02
3. LCD Soundsystem - s/t - 02.15
4. Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak - 02.23
5. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute - 03.05
6. Franklin Delano - Like A Smoking Gun In Front Of Me (used) - 03.09
7. Black Dice - Creature Comforts (used) - 03.09
8. Solomon Burke - Make Do With What You Got - 03.16
9. Jeff Buckley - Grace Legacy Edition - 03.16

i just can't comprehend why you would buy something you don't even want