[Music] RTS: Record Store Day

I think I can now safely say that I've gotten old. My music purchasing has moved from buying the New Latest Indie Thing and headed towards Stuff I Had on Vinyl and Am Now Finding In Dollar Bins.

Not that that's a bad thing, mind you...I'm basically rebuilding my collection in bits and pieces via the internet and dollar bins nowadays. Put it this way--I feel I can use the word "library" to describe my collection. I'm still buying new things, but I haven't bought new titles willy-nilly like I did in the first part of this decade. Of course, I don't listen to streaming sites such as Pandora or my old Yahoo Music station, which I did quite a bit at one time. I just don't have time for it. I will occasionally listen to the samplings of blogs and sites such as eMusic and PopDose and whatnot, checking out stuff I may like, but for the most part I look for things I enjoy that I've heard on my local commercial indie station, Live 105. That pretty much keeps me tied to Death Cab, Green Day, Depeche mode, etc., but I don't mind.

I think for me lately it's all about toning down the collecting and actually listening. I work at home two days a week, and during that time I'm almost exclusively listening to random things from my 'library' while I'm working. Added to the fact that I've been using eMusic and other online places lately to not download new things, but old things I once had, or stuff I never got around to buying (the Minutemen discography, for instance).

That's not to say I haven't given up my obsessive collecting ways...at this point instead of getting "the latest thing" it's become "everything in their discography". Mind you, it's not to the point where I'm looking for rare Chinese-only limited-edition 10" vinyl only-ten-made-before-it-was-pulled-and-destroyed titles. Any of you can feel free to slap me if it ever gets that bad. Just enough to say I had everything a band released. With this, it's kind of interesting to see what songs are hard to get, which ones are available, and which ones are vinyl-only.

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Which leads me to the goods I bought at Amoeba today!

--San Francisco Symphony, The Essence of America: Aaron Copland (emmalyon's pick)
--Belly, King (the one Belly album I didn't have)
--The Real People, The Real People (1992 album I had on tape once...good britpop)
--Silversun Pickups, Swoon (their new one)
--Death Cab for Cutie, The Open Door EP (their new one)
--The Smithereens, A Date with the Smithereens (the one album we didn't have)
--Ned's Atomic Dustbin, God Fodder, Are You Normal? and brainbloodvolume (their complete output, album-wise)

We also bought the following DVDs as well, all pretty much picked by Emm:
--Funny Face
--Monty Python and the Holy Grail (why did we not have this yet??)
--Cowboy Bebop: Best Sessions
--Salaryman Kintaro dvd 1 (anime)

Stuff I came close to buying but didn't:
--Throwing Muses, House Tornado and Red Heaven (2 of 4 cds I need from them)
--Sisters of Mercy, First Last & Always and Vision Thing (the re-releases with the extra tracks...debating getting these online instead if I can)
--Psychedelic Furs, Talk Talk Talk, Mirror Moves, All of This and Nothing, Book of Days, World Outside and Here Come the Psychedelic Furs (the albums I'm missing, plus a b-sides/rarities collection...I might find these online instead)

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Anyone else buy stuff today to support your local record store?? :)