Monday, January 19, 2015

The Fine Art of Buying Decent CDs for Less Than What a Song Costs on iTunes

Welcome back folks! Most of y'all know that I am not just poor, but cheap too. BUT I still enjoy some of the better things in life. How, pray tell? In large part thanks to the fine folks at Goodwill, though Manifest (one of the best stores going and Charlotte and Columbia are both BLESSED to have one, sorry Greenville, but Earshot stinks) is a mother load too. Before their "most recent move stuff around at random", the Manifest in Charlotte had a whole wall of used CDs that were 2 for a dollar. Now, I KNOW what you're thinking... all that crap ain't worth a dollar, much less worth wading through. And you'd be wrong! BUT you must have a strategy. Mine is simple: most songs on iTunes are now $1.29, so if you get 1 decent song from a CD for a buck, you win. So here are my "triggers" for a good deal on cheap CDs. Ghosts, JFK, trains, camping/ hiking, the South/ South Carolina, any band I've heard of, and cool cover art or album title. Now, I ain't gonna lie and say all I ever buy is wonderment, BUT it's not like I'm dropping ten bucks for garbage,  So, here are 15 tracks off bargain CDs for you to track down... legally natch. Genres will be blurred.

1- Absence of Photographs by Norfolk & Western (trains)
2-Aching Bones by Catalpa Boys (my knees were barking that day)
3-Ain't It a Shame by the B-52s (heard of them)
4-The Odd Couple Theme by JFK and the Conspirators (JFK... and it's ska yo!)
5- Life is Large by The Kennedys (JFK)
6-All in the Mind by Mother and the Addicts (cool cover)
7-The Backward Step by Hammock (the only way to camp)
8-Camping Next to Water by Badly Drawn Boy (based on where my hammock gets hung more often than not)
9-Darling Nikki by Asylum Street Spankers (heard of both and thought it might be weird enough to work and it do)
10-Elementary, My Dear Watson by William Indelli and his Orchestra (I like Jeremy Brett as Holmes and the wife LOVES Cumberbatch... I like the song and she don't...lol)
11-Face the Fear by Ghostfog (ghosts)
12- Get Your Priest on by Hot One (cool cover)
13- Hadrians Wall by Maxim (ghost)
14- Killer in Texas by Ghoultown (South, ghosts, cool cover)
15- The Death of Me by Dex Romweber Trio (cool title and cover)

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