“I have eclectic music tastes. And a gift card to use.”
On Wednesday, as part of our comebackation, we ran some errands. Basically, the youngest needed new shoes, and the Entertainmart is just down the road a couple of shopping centers. My beautiful wife got me a gift card for our anniversary much like she got me one at Vintage Stock for Valentine’s Day. As I’m accumulating quite a backlog of movies to watch based on the Valentine’s Day gift card and recent estate sale purchases, I was not eager to buy more films.
So I got some CDs.
I’d kind of hoped to get some jazz CDs, but the sections in their small music offerings were not clearly labeled, and I think the jazz was mixed in with the pop. And although this is not a proper Musical Balance post, it does kind of track with the metal and songbirds bit.
I got:
- Drops of Jupiter by Train.
- All My Tomorrows by Grover Washington, Jr. I have a lot of his records on vinyl; this is my first CD.
- “The End of Heartache” by Killswitch Engage. The joke’s on me; this is a single from the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack, but it was priced like a full album.
- The Lightness of Being, a 3 disc set of ambient lounge and chill out tracks. Only two of the CDs ripped. I hope the first did not install malware.
- Two old Pink Floyd albums, Obscured by Clouds and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn from their early Syd Barrett bluesy acid sound days before their big success working out Roger Waters’ daddy issues.
- Four Chords and Seven Years Ago by Huey Lewis and the News. A later album which I hadn’t gotten around to getting.
- Three by Diana Krall: All For You, Love Scenes, and The Girl in the Other Room. I think I have a crush on Mrs. Costello.
The ten CDs/sets ran $49.62, leaving me with 38 cents on the gift card which I might never use.
It was only after I finger-walked through the CDs that I saw the cheap records in bins below a new record display. It’s just as well, though; I haven’t listened to all the records I got at the book sale in April yet.
So I have already listened to the Pink Floyd albums and part of the Krall collection, but I’m still mostly streaming WSIE at the desk. So maybe I shouldn’t run out and buy stacks of CDs any more. Although Tokyo Groove Jyoshi has a new album coming out next week….
