This is a pretty interesting site - pick a station in your area and it lists what they’ve played, so you can finally get that song that the DJ didn’t backannounce… which is my single biggest annoyance with some stations, and one of the reasons I switched to iPod for most of my in-car listening. Some stations already do this on their website, but it’s nice to have a single stop to find that information, assuming your area is well served… mine (Worcester) is, with 50 stations.
Yes.com [from Lifehacker.com]
I have a mental list of albums that I’m trying to find cheaply.
Earlier this year, I went to a used CD store here in Worcester (Jelly’s Discs, for those keeping score at home) and found two - Rave Til Dawn including Apotheosis’ “O Fortuna,” and Boris Grebenshikov’s “Radio Silence” - both were staples of my college days. I had them on cassette but couldn’t get CD copies before they disappeared from the market.
Today I walked in to Newbury Comics in the Solomon Pond Mall and found something new - Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend. One of my absolutel favorite albums. However, this was the new “Legacy Edition” which included a second disc of… “Good Frend: Another Take on ‘Girlfriend’.” We had this in our college station and someone stole it before I got a chance to. Basically, I’ve spent over 10 years looking for a copy, and now I have it.
Sure, it’s not the promo version from 1992. And sure, I could have picked any of these up on eBay. That’s not the point. I’d rather spend the time rooting through CD stores (used and new) and seeing what I can find, because sometimes I’ll find something else that’s really cool.
And for those who care, the rest of my list that I’m consciously looking for includes:
Pete Townsend, “The Iron Man”
The Bears, “The Bears”
The Bears, “Rise and Shine”
The Travelling Wilburys, “Volume 1″
The Travelling Wilburys, “Volume 3″
CommonCensus Map Project - Maps
An interesting project to show where people think they are (for lack of a better way of putting it). An interesting way to look at the influence of cities.
