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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.