OBSESSION FOR MEN
Searching for and collecting used Compact Discs has been an unhealthy pursuit of mine for roughly nine years. I've recently (kind of) gotten over it, and since about this July I've sold, I'd estimate, between one and two hundred of the CDs that Sarah and I have accumulated over the years.
But that doesn't mean I can always pass up a chance to dig through thousands of $1 CDs. The local NPR station (and the one affiliated with my school), had its annual CD sale last weekend. With a self-imposed limit of $10 (and coming in under!), here's what I ended up with:
1. Monarch - the Grandeur that Was Rome
Purchased due to its record label (Northern), home to many amazing bands. CD does not live up to Team Clermont's sticker implying that it sounds like Sigur Ros and Air. I'll give this CD away to anyone who wants it.
2. Bizzart - Ear Drung
Possibly the choicest find, from the Sounds Are Active label. Collaborator with Soul-Junk, Anticon aesthetics, and sweetly crypto-Christian rhymes over crazy but not too-crazy IDM beats = g.o.o.d.
3. & 4. Duvall - Volume and Density and John Davis - self-titled
Couldn't pass these up due to my respect for their former bands (Smoking Popes and Superdrag, respectively) and their eerie simiarity: two mid-90's power-popsters undergo hardcore Evangelical Christian conversions and quickly release albums designed to break into Christian music? But it's not a joke! Despite the somewhat overly Jesusy lyrics, both are actually solid.
5. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - A Manual Dexterity
Surprisingly, no one noticed this one. Mars Volta dude's solo record from 2004, less messy but just as awesome.
6. Chagall Guevara - s/t
Had to get this for the sheer name factor, this is the #1 most-cited failed Christian-gone-mainstream project in terms of "underground rock." Fronted by the enigmatic Steve Taylor. Have yet to listen and am slightly prejudiced against due to the band's ridiculous clothes in photos.
7. Susie Suh - s/t
Got to support the Asian American singer/songwriters. Not a bad effort. Wasn't sure if the guy who sold this to me was being racist or not. He said, "Susie Sue? Who does she think she's fooling?" I really didn't get it. I should have at least corrected his pronunciation.
5 comments:
Good catch on Chagall Guevara! I've been looking for that one for a while.
Tickets... and Kid A showed up here the other day. Good stuff.
you know, i'm not sure i'll be keeping it...i'm about to start selling more CDs on eBay and that may find its way there.
BTW I have scoured everything and I think someone else bought Pablo Honey before we moved. Hate to do that to you but I'm afraid that's what happened...
I'll have to keep an eye out for that then.
That's alright - I got my money's worth with the others you threw in.
You can get mint for C/G on eBay if you decide you don't like it. I like that CD a whole lot and was actually listening to it today, even with 60 GB to choose from.
Regarding the cryptic comment, I'm pretty sure the seller thought this particular artist was trying to riff off of Siouxie Sioux -- you know, Siouxie and the Banshees.
That does make sense, now that you mention it.
I put on a couple songs of the Guevara and it did not move me*, so to eBay it has gone.
(*I didn't think it was bad, I just wasn't that into it.)
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