Never planned on record store day in the past... but I did so this year, and believe in the support of real record stores because they're going away unless we do something about it.

Here's what I got:
Big Black Songs About Fucking
Torche s/t
Sonic Youth Goo
Poison the Well I/III II/III III/III
Antonio Carlos Jobim A Certain Mr. JobimDinosaur Jr ( Read more... )

Alright real quick:
Hot shit coming out this summer...
Sonic Youth
Portugal. The Man
Dinosaur Jr.
Mos Def
Amanda Blank
Elvis Costello
Wilco

Dredg & BrandNew (*fingers crossed*)

Anything else? Don't make me spend all my money...

I'm not sure what I should post about.
I have a couple things I could... I think I might hit you up with my new kicks post (for those who haven't seen them):

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As I'm looking... failed to pay attention to this initially... the book I was talking about earlier is out of print! So, to buy it new, it costs $95.00. There are a few $35.00 used copies that I'll look into ( Read more... )

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The next book that I plan on reading is going to be a book that I buy: Brian Eno's A Year with Swollen Appendices... two parts: his diary from the year 1995 and the "appendices", which feature correspondence, interviews, short stories, and essays that include topics such as ambient music, generative music (see Will Wright and Eno's work with the ( Read more... )

Hip hop has been boring me for a good bit lately... where is all the hot shit? It picked up for a while, right? But no one is releasing albums... those who are established are postponing their records to unknown dates, and those who are new... well, we have no idea. You know how the majors play titty boys until it is tried and true ( Read more... )

I think I'm going to take a break, eat a snack... watch the tv fuck... then try to go to sleep at a reasonable time.

I've been longing to post a 2008 best-of list... and I regret not having done so. It isn't like I haven't tried ( Read more... )

What do I think about Tha Carter III?
... when it imported into my iTunes, it didn't configure the tracklisting correctly and I have never corrected it.