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I’m on a music-buying kick. Here’s what I’ve picked up in the last 30 days:

• Ray Lamontagne – Trouble
• Loretta Lynn – Van Lear Rose
• Moby – Hotel
• Jimi Hendrix – Are You Experienced?
• Thievery Corporation – The Cosmic Game
• Beck – Guero
• Police – Synchronicity
• Guns n’ Roses – G n’ R Lies
• Phunk Junkeez – Fear of a Wack Planet
• Outkast – Stankonia
• Handsome Boy Modeling School – White People
• Busta Rhymes – It Ain’t Safe No More…
• Busta Rhymes – When Disaster Strikes…
• 2Pac – Me Against the World
• Jay-Z – The Blueprint
• Jurassic 5 – Quality Control
• Kings of Tomorrow f/Julie McKnight – Finally (single)
• REM – Document
• Julia Fordham – Swept
• Anne Sofie von Otter meets Elvis Costello – For the Stars
• k.d. lang – Ingénue
• Cat Stevens – The Very Best of…
• Johnny Cash – Love
• Johnny Cash – God
• Michael Hedges – Aerial Boundaries
• Who – Quadrophenia
• Soul Coughing – El Oso
• Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom
• Jack Johnson – On and On
• Jack Johnson – Brushfire Fairytales
• Jill Sobule – Happy Town
• Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene
• Télépopmusik – Genetic World
• White Stripes – Elephant
• St. Etienne – Travel Edition
• B.B. King/Eric Clapton – Riding with the King
• Eagle Eye Cherry – Desireless
• v/a – Cream Anthems
• v/a – Stoned Immaculate – the Music of the Doors
• v/a – Sacred Rhythms of Cuba

So, 40 CDs in about a month’s time. Of which, 29 were $1.50 or less, another four were $3, and all but one cost less than $10. This is why I love the Seattle Public Library’s half-yearly book sale, and why I am absolutely deadly whenever a $9.99 sale, cutout bin or used CD store is within range.