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I Actually Bought This on CD

• 05.06.08
  Absolutely Sucky I Actually Bought This on CD | (0)

  This one makes my head shake. Back when I was in college, I bought ABC’s greatest hits on CD at Best Buy for 18 bucks. For some reason, back in 1994, I thought it’d be SUCH A GOOD CALL on some Tuesday night to actually go to Best Buy and get these tracks of turd. There’s not much else to say except that I’m too embarrassed to even sell this CD. I’m going to have to throw it away. And I’m too embarrassed to throw it away in my own dumpster, so I’m going to have to see a movie in Evanston and throw it away in the bathroom trash can with all the popcorn, and then comment on it to some passerby, as if to say “Hey, someone dropped a CD in there. Huh.” I hope I don’t get tempted to keep the CD to claim ultimate power, like Frodo’s final test on Mount Doom. Maybe some Evanston movie theater bathroom trash can sewer rat can bite off my finger and grab the CD and slow-motion-fall into the soggy pile of popcorn, finally content to hold The Precious as I sprint back to the car and head back to the Shire, there and back again, the end.

• 04.25.08
  Color Me Crapp I Actually Bought This on CD | (3)

  Two CD’s in one week! Bought this CD in my senior year in high school, playing it over and over as we were graduating to remind myself about how awesome that last hour of my last day of my senior year had been, how great it was to skip class for the first time, and how I was totally going to take this CD to my dorm room at Drake. Pathetic. Even worse that I still own the CD. I actually hung onto this one to show it to Andy Wahlstrom next time he visits, but the track “All 4 Love” is starting to stink-up the basement. Not even curious what happened to these guys. Something tells me that if I tried to return this to a Best Buy to redeem my 18 bucks because “it never really worked right,” the middle manager in charge would be Poor Man’s Kenny G. (I can’t remember if the album actually points to Poor Man’s Kenny G, or of this photo to the side does, but you better believe I’m not gonna go find the CD to make sure…)

• 04.22.08
  Earth, Fire, Air, Water, Crap I Actually Bought This on CD | (4)

  The 5th Element was a great movie for about a year, opening at the perfect intersection in the early days of online movie speculation and spoilers. I remember a bunch of websites (probably all via Mosaic and Infoseek) devoted to this movie, which Stephe and I saw on opening night, and really is not much more than a fun, campy montage of every legitimately kick ass sci-fi movie you’ve seen. Had they had iTunes when the soundtrack was released, I probably would have previewed a few songs only to be distracted by a new ingredient in the Bowl of Noodles application on my Facebook page (Alert! Ridarelli added “KING PAO BEEF” to their Bowl of Noodles!). I had to sample a few songs by purchasing this pile of crap at Best Buy for 18 bucks. Filled with tracks such as “Aknot — What?” and “Gary Oldman’s Millenium Falcon Jumps to Hyperspace,” this true embarrassment in my album collection is available for free if you rent Schad’s office and happen to find it in the trash. Shoulda bought a share in Starbucks instead.

• 04.15.08
  Leaving Las CD’s I Actually Bought This on CD | (1)

  What am I possibly going to do with this CD? Give it to Stephe for the big Rent Party mix? Autograph it and give it to Rhymefest? Leave it for the Jawas in the back alley? Though this movie is OK and the music is OK, there’s just absolutely no reason to own the soundtrack to “Leaving Las Vegas.” If you really need to hear Sting’s voice on “Angel Eyes” or “Funeral Pyre for a Drunken Jedi,” go to iTunes. Guess I felt the need to hang onto it, somehow justifying the 18 bucks I spent in 1995 at some Best Buy in Des Moines. Time to let it go, Indiana. Let it go . . . If you want this, lemme know, otherwise I’m gonna see if I can get a dime for it in Michigan.

• 04.07.08
  Breathe: All That Crap I Actually Bought This on CD | (0)

  

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  I was going through old CD’s the other day and it occurred to me that I’ve got a lot of CRAP CD’s. I got Breathe on CD back in college because I wanted the song Hands to Heaven because I thought it’d be a great make-out song (not to date myself, but this was before iPods! Wow!) so I got the whole CD at Best Buy for probably 18 bucks (not to date myself, but this was when 18 bucks was a LOT of money! Wow!). Long story short, I dug out this CD and I think I’m just gonna throw it away. If you want it, lemme know before I leave it for the Jawas in the back alley.