The Last Album You Bought..., and why

Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Bad News. I remember hearing Smoke Yourself Thin years and years ago and thinking "Hey up, there's a band I should invest some time in" and promptly didn't. Then when visiting my mum and her Sky system I heard Float On and thought it was brilliant. So I bought the album. It's great. Kinda miffed I didn't take up the offer of Modest Mousing all those years ago, but that's life.

Haven't heard much Modest Mouse, I've got 'The Moon & Antarctica' album lying around somewhere but it never really grabbed me... From what I remember of them they were just a very, very American sounding, not so good and slightly more hyperactive version of The Flaming Lips... Hmmh, might dig it out again though, give it a try.

Anyways, last album? Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore, which I brought largely thanks to The Clash, thought it was worth a try, not overjoyed with it though, apart from the cover of Redemption song it's very unimpressive...

I went kinda crazy in HMV the other day when i went to get my mum some classical for her birthday.

Wound up buying myself 'When the Pawn....' by Fiona Apple, 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady' by Charles Mingus and 'Chaos AD' by Sepultura.

I've listened to he first 2 once and it sounds like i'm going to love them forever. Still yet to listen to the sepultura album.

crikey... my week's (obscene amount of) shopping:

bellrays - meet the bellrays - it was a quid on ebay
blur - the great escape - it was £1.50 on ebay
the reindeer section - son of evil reindeer - liked what i've heard
mull historical society - this is hope - got it at the hmv show / signing
alfie - if you happy with you need do nothing - wanted it for ages, disappointed though.
soundtrack of our lives - behind the music - likewise, but not disappointed at all.
teenage fanclub have lost it - going cheap on amazon market. mentalism!
shack - here's tom with the weather - great stuff
snow patrol - the final straw - haven't received it yet
kaiser chiefs - oh my god (single) - likewise
morrisey - you are the quarry - likewise

can you tell i've been paid recently?

and my week's freebies:

mull historical society - how bout i love you more - love it.
moby & public enemy - make love fuck war - haven't listened properly yet, but i like the sentiment
plumb - sink n swim - she's a songwriter for jessica simpson, gone solo. yikes.
xisloaded - raw nerve - yawn
alanis morisette - out is through - didn't choose these, okay?

strnagely, there's no sting in there....

martyn, considering people are starving in world thats a fucking awful way to waste your money.

I think he steals them. It's what Sting would have wanted.

bandini - the total cost of all those records was about £60. you could spend that on four albums in hmv, and i'm sure many people do, every week. i think it was an excellent way to spend my money. and i hadn't bought anything for about three or four weeks before this little spree, due to my own prior poverty.

and don't try the guilt thing. i work hard, for shit pay, and i'll spend my money how i like. how much do you spend on feeding the hungry, compared to your own music expenditure?

that was, of course, me

well i spend a fair amount now and then but i do my best not to spend it on such heaps of awfulness. in my experience i've found that the starved and poverty stricken forgive my lack of charity due to my wizardly taste procuring greatness with every purchase.

you, my friend, have no such respite.

i see. they've clearly not read your 'why bother making a rock album after this' thread on the old board, then?

well they can't afford computers, silly. THANK GOD.

What I have bought:

Xanda Howe - And Howe
Martina Sorbara - The Cure For Bad Seeds
Kristine W. - Stronger
Jem - Finally Woken
Nellie Mckay - Get Away From Me (2CD)
Vienna Teng - Waking Hour
Feline - S/T
The Elysian Fields - We The Enlightened
The LoveGods - Between Dogs And Wolves
Calla - Televise
Passenger - S/T
Black Box Recorder - England Made Me

Bought most cost I am a CD-aholic

I finally ordered Snow Patrol's Final Straw this week after being convinced by the 3 excellent singles like, I'm a marketer's dream and also a spunky punky poppy album called Nasty Little Thoughts by Stroke 9...

This place is (not) the shit... nice of it to forget to log me in...