{"id":123,"date":"2005-08-27T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/?p=123"},"modified":"2005-08-27T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2005-08-27T08:15:05","slug":"cds-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/cds-again\/","title":{"rendered":"CDs Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a long time ago my 20GB iPod ran out of space. Every time I added new songs, I had to delete old ones to make room. This caused my iPod to become sorta messy (incomplete albums, exclusion of songs I wanted at a later date, etc.). Thankfully, today I went to get a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/color\/\">60GB color iPod<\/a>, so now I can try to get my library fixed up (which is going to be quite a task, let me say).<\/p>\n<p>In honor of finally being able to put new music on my iPod, I headed over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydaymusic.com\/\">Everyday Music<\/a> and bought $70 worth of CDs.<\/p>\n<p>I would like to share the list of albums I purchased. I am quite excited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Cure &#8211; <i>Mixed Up<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; I mainly wanted this CD because I already have the &#8220;Tree mix&#8221; of &#8220;A Forest&#8221; and absolutely love it. Plus I really do love the Cure, so it seemed like remixes would make a good addition to my collection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Chemical Brothers &#8211; &#8220;Life Is Sweet&#8221; single<\/strong> &#8212; The Daft Punk remix of &#8220;Life Is Sweet&#8221; is basically a new creation, which is good and bad. I first heard the remix on the Gregg Araki movie <i>Nowhere<\/i>. Since I am trying to obtain nearly every Chemical Brothers single, the purchase was necessary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grandaddy &#8211; <i>Under the Western Freeway<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; Grandaddy is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands. <i>The Sophtware Slump<\/i> and <i>Sumday<\/i>  are mind-blowingly good, and I&#8217;ve been wanting to get more albums. Today was my chance! The song &#8220;A.M. 180&#8221; is used in the movie <i>28 Days Later<\/i> (the only &#8220;happy&#8221; part of the movie when they are shopping at the grocery store) and I loved it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grandaddy &#8211; <i>Concrete Dunes<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; Apparently this is a &#8220;rarities, imports, previously unreleased, and out of print tracks&#8221; album. It sounds like something for more of a hardcore fan, so I guess you can call this &#8220;preparation&#8221; or &#8220;anticipation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boards of Canada &#8211; <i>In A Beautiful Place In the Country<\/i> EP<\/strong> &#8212; Since Boards of Canada have released so few albums (which are so amazing), I feel the need to get everything I can by them. I need more!!<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Streets &#8211; <i>Original Pirate Material<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; The song &#8220;Weak Become Heroes&#8221; was <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkmedia.com\/top\/2000-04\/singles\/index6.shtml\">43<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkmedia.com\/top\/2000-04\/singles\/index.shtml\">Pitchfork&#8217;s The Top 100 Singles: 2000-04<\/a>, so I figured the album was worth checking out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dntel &#8211; <i>Life Is Full of Possibilities<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; I already have the &#8220;(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan&#8221; single (it was basically the &#8220;first&#8221; Postal Service song &#8212; it was where Brian Tamborello and Benjamin Gibbard first collaborated. Now it&#8217;s time to see what the rest of the album is about.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elliott Smith &#8211; <i>XO<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; Most of my best friends love Elliott Smith, so it&#8217;s about damn time I actually get one of his albums. I couldn&#8217;t remember what album people had recommended when I was at the store, but <i>XO<\/i> sounded intriguing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Liz Phair &#8211; <i>Liz Phair<\/i><\/strong> &#8212; Don&#8217;t hate me!!! I used to be a huge Liz Phair fan (I saw her live once, had the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saylerfamily.com\/jas\/albums\/girly.htm\">Girlysounds Demos<\/a>, etc. etc.), but then with <i>whitechocolatespaceegg<\/i> I started worrying. When <i>Liz Phair<\/i> came out, I heard it was horrible (0\/5, no stars, etc.) so I didn&#8217;t even bother getting it. Well, I found a skuf copy for only $4.25, so I figure for that price I might as well see if it&#8217;s really so bad&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So overall, that makes 9 CDs for $70.18. That averages out to about $7.80 a disc. Not bad, if I say so myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a long time ago my 20GB iPod ran out of space. Every time I added new songs, I had to delete old ones to make room. This caused my iPod to become sorta messy (incomplete albums, exclusion of songs I wanted at a later date, etc.). Thankfully, today I went to get a 60GB &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/posts\/2005\/cds-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CDs Again!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecompany.net\/jason\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}