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I recently picked up "Love Again" and "Daft Punk" from PTX Vol II by Pentatonix.

Thrifted CD's:

Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Various Artists - Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs To Benefit The West Memphis Three (Black Flag tribute album with Henry Rollins' backing band collaborating with various vocalists)
The Evens - The Evens

Free download: They Might Be Giants - Flood Live In Australia. Mildly amusing story: I downloaded this without realizing they actually played the album in reverse order ^note insert joke about that myth about water spiraling down the drain the wrong way in Australia... Which TMBG kind of alluded to in "Ana Ng", so maybe that is why they did it, so I thought someone messed up the track order while uploading; I then put it in a playlist in the "proper" order and was thoroughly confused when "Birdhouse In Your Soul", the second song on the actual album, ended with them thanking the audience and telling them that the next song was going to be the last one. So I now want to listen to it once both ways sometime.

edited 3rd Mar '15 8:13:55 PM by MikeK

Both Imagine Dragons albums and the remaster of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti. All good stuff. Also, got The Process and Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy a few weeks back, too.

I got my Super Smash Bros. Red and Blue Soundtrack today.

Crypt Sermon - Out of the Garden. Band has been getting hyped to hell and back as of late and they've more than earned it. Basically, if you like Candlemass, Solitude Aeturnus, or similar bands, you need this album.

The new Enslaved album, in Times (which is both epic in the non-literal sense and epic in the sense of being full of Epic Rocking- seriously, every song is over 8 minutes long and one is almost 11) and Last Rites by Skinny Puppy, thus completing my collection of SP albums.

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Winterland"
• Louis Armstrong - "Louis Armstrong Plays WC Handy"
• Fleetwood Mac - "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac Live At The BBC"
• Blind Guardian - "Nightfall In Middle Earth"

Understanding jazz is not a strength of mine - my ears are just untrained and that's mostly that. But I figured I'd give it a shot with pretty much a blues set with two guitarists partially for comparison and see how that goes for me. If not well, I'm quitting altogether.

edited 15th Mar '15 8:13:30 PM by MrMatt

In the hollow hills, Passageways, The left panel and Hold me forever, all by Buckethead. And only because he lowered the prices to 2 dollars last week, otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford it.

Blind Guardian - Beyond the Red Mirror. I like it, but I suspect that it'll need multiple listens to really get it.

2 dollar thrift store cd's: The Presidents of the United States of America - self-titled and The Smithereens - Especially For You. The Presidents album has a lot of nostalgia for me as one of the first cd's (as opposed to cassettes) I owned, and The Smithereens has two songs I know and like ("Behind The Wall Of Sleep" and "Blood And Roses".

edited 22nd Mar '15 9:08:25 PM by MikeK

The Dillinger Escape Plan, One of Us Is the Killer.

• The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
• Daft Punk - Discovery
• John Hiatt - Paper Thin: The 1989 Canadian Broadcast

First three vinyl records I've ever bought - I got a record player last Christmas as a gift.

• Both albums from the Hungarian band Ad Astra (decent prog-power)
• The Project Hate's last two albums, digital and in digipak in order of release.
• Both Hammerforce albums. The second one I have technically thrice, in English, Russian, and instrumentals. (power metal mostly, though its got a particular "flavor")
• Cormorant's whole discography, EP and 3 albums
• Miroist, both the EP and album, digitally (one man prog thing, bit of djent maybe)

Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Just last night, I got vinyl copies of Father John Misty's I Love You, Honeybear and Drive Like Jehu's Yank Crime.

Down - NOLA. They're a metal supergroup (or Pantera side project, depending on how you look at it). I earned a one dollar music download credit on amazon - I figured I could either buy a single song, or see if there was anything I might like on their 3.99 albums page and spend three dollars instead of four, and went with the latter.

edited 20th Apr '15 9:35:49 AM by MikeK

I recently purchased album Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri La Dee Dah off of amazon. The first thing I ever purchased from that actually. I couldn't find it anywhere but there.

• Calexico: Edge of the Sun [Deluxe Edition]
• Doug Burr: Pale White Dove
• Starflyer 59: Plugged
• Pony Express: Fraud EP

Went out for Record Store Day last Saturday, and didn't end up finding anything released that day that interested me too much. I did however, still end up getting some stuff.

On record:

Bikini Kill - Bikini Kill EP

On CD:

the Mountain Goats - Beat The Champ
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Run–D.M.C. - Greatest Hits

The Bikini Kill included nice, big, poster-sized artwork and a digital download code, both things I always like records to include. The Sonic Youth album recently got reissued, but I specifically went looking for a used copy because I knew it'd be cheaper(especially because the reissue didn't include any bonus tracks beyond what the normal CD version has).

edited 20th Apr '15 9:45:59 AM by MikeK

Sean Hogan's Anodyne soundtrack.

Brick+Mortar - "Voodoo Child (Agent 47 Remix)"

To be honest, I didn't expect ripping music from Soundcloud to be this easy.

I wound up not doing Record Store Day, either. I went out to this mom-and-pop music store not far from me, and it turned out they weren't participating in RSD. But I'm glad I went there, because I had a nice conversation with one of the clerks, and grabbed a few Latin American imports I probably would never have found anywhere else.

CD:

• Compay Segundo: El Inolvidable

Vinyl:

• Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán: Danzones and Pasodobles
• Nathan Abshire: A Cajun Tradition
• Chic: C'est Chic

Apocalpyse Kids and St. Vitus' Dance, both songs by the Barons of Tang.

Found a used Black Sabbath box set called Under Wheels Of Confusion. Should prove an interesting listen, because it's the only Sabbath compilation that I've heard of that doesn't pretend Ozzy and Dio were the only singers for the band - it goes up to 1987, so it includes a couple songs each for Ian Gillan, Glenn Hughes, and Tony Martin.

Just downloaded the single "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums" by A Perfect Circle. Probably my favorite song with a eleven word title.

edited 24th Apr '15 6:15:50 AM by NrueSRyz