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In case it might generate some ideas or curiosity for you, the disco consumer, this is just a list of how I spend my monthly downloads on eMusic, the monthly $6 disc at yourmusic, occasional purchase at iTunes, holiday gifts, etc. (Also amended to reflect the increasingly rare hard-copy purchase.) 

December '07
Wes Montgomery - The Best Of ...
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is
U2 - The Joshua Tree (CD/DVD)
DMB - Live At Piedmont Park
James Taylor - One Man Band (eMusic)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Grateful Dead - So Many Roads (box set for $24.99 on iTunes)
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (eMusic)
Elton John - 60 @ MSG (DVD audio rip)
U2 - Live @ Mexico City (DVD audio rip)

November '07
Andy Bey - "All The Things You Are"
Belle & Sebastian - Several from Dear Catastrophe Waitress
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Elton John - Blue Moves
Grateful Dead - Road Trips, Vol. 1 (Fall '79)
Ian Ball - Who Goes There?

October '07
Arcade Fire - "Surf City Eastern Bloc"
Besnard Lakes - "Casino Nanaimo" and "Devastation (alternate)"
Bruce Hornsby - Three Nights On The Town (DVD audio rip)
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Dusty Springfield - "Yesterday, When I Was Young"
The Foundation - "Build Me Up Buttercup"
John Lennon - five tracks from Lennon Legend
Joni Mitchell - Shine
J.S. Bach - Trio Sonatas 1-6 (by London Baroque on original instruments)
Radiohead - In Rainbows

September '07
Frank Zappa - Huge sampler, thanks to BackwardsAmpersand.
Joe Henry - Civilians
Matt Pond PA - Last Light

August '07
Al Stewart - "Year Of The Cat"
Alison Krauss & Union Station - "Restless"
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Avett Bros. - "Will You Return"
Bruce Springsteen - Live In Dublin
Random tracks of my youth from Christopher Cross, Orleans, Poco, The Spinners,
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live At Radio City
David Mead - Indiana
Feist - The Reminder
Field Music - Tones Of Town
Genesis - Live
Genesis - Seconds Out
Keller & The Keels - about half of Grass
Loose Fur - Born Again In The USA
Matt Pond PA - Emblems
Pinetop Seven - The Night's Bloom
Radiohead - My Iron Lung (EP)
Styx - Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology
Television - Marquee Moon
Van Halen - Van Halen
Yes - Live At Montreux 2003
Yes - Fragile
Yes - The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection

July '07
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet, Rewind (remaster for the former, both eBay finds)
Genesis - Genesis 1976-1982 (box)
Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt (eBay)
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (eMusic)
The National - Boxer (eMusic)

June '07 
Spoon - "I Could Be Underground" from the 30 Gallon Tank EP
Hall & Oates - A bunch of deep album tracks from distant albums thanks to Jefito's recap
Beatles - A bunch of out-of-print mono versions from Octaner
The National - "Fake Empire" from Boxer
New Pornographers - "My Rights Versus Yours" from Challengers
Rolling Stones - Forty Licks and Beggars Banquet
Modern Skirts - "Four More Years" from the single of the same name
Genesis - Foxtrot, Wind & Wuthering, Selling England By The Pound
Matt Pond PA - If You Want Blood EP
Crooked Still - "Orphan Girl" and "Shady Grove" from Hop High; all of Shaken By A Low Sound
Paul McCartney - Ram and Wingspan

May '07
The Broken West - "Brass Ring", "You Can Build An Island", "Hale Sunrise", "Abigail", "Slow", "Like A Light" from I Can't Go On I'll Go On
The Decemberists - "Billy Liar", "Sunshine", "Oceanside", "Shiny", The Tain (EP)
Everybody Else - nearly all of Everybody Else
Field Music - "You're Not Supposed To", "In The Kitchen", "Trying To Sit Outu" from Write Your Own History
Imogen Heap - "Hide & Seek" and "Glittering Clouds (Locusts)"
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

April '07
The Blue Nile - Hats
Brandi Carlile - The Story
Guster - Satellite EP
Roland Orzabal - "Dandelion"
The Comfies - "Understanding 23" and "Your Sunshine"
Small Sails - Similar Anniversaries
The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
The Tragically Hip - World Container
Mozart (via Evgeni Koroliov) - Sonatas in B Flat Major, F Major, and C Major
The Format - EP
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - "Who Do You Love?"
Bruce Hornsby & Ricky Scaggs - "Crown of Jewels" (thanks, Mongo!)
Novi Split - the first five songs from Pink In The Sink
The Decemberists - "Culling The Fold" (Crane Wife bonus available a la carte on iTunes) and "Perfect Crime #1 > The Day I Knew You Wouldn't Ever Come Back"
Doves - Some Cities Live EP

March '07
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

February '07
The Spinners - "They Just Can't Stop It"
Yvonne Elliman - "If I Can't Have You"
Quarterflash - "Harden My Heart"
Parliament - "Thear The Roof Off The Sucker"
Nicolette Larson - "Lotta Love"
Michael McDonald - "I Keep Forgettin'"
Kansas - "Carry On Wayward Son"
Marvin Gaye - "Got To Give It Up (Part 1)"
Marshall Tucker Band - "Heard It In A Love Song"
John Sebastian - "Welcome Back"
Alicia Bridges - "I Love The Nightlife"
Grand Funk Railroad - "Bad Time"
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - "December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)"
Asia - "Heat Of The Moment"
Captain & Tennille - "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Ambrosia - "How Much I Feel"
The Outlaws - "There Goes Another Love Song"
George Benson - "Give Me The Night"
The Emotions - "Best Of My Love"
Diana Ross - "I'm Coming Out"
Cornelius Brothers - "Too Late To Turn Back Now"
Southern Culture On The Skids - "Camel Walk (live)"
Feist - "My Moon My Man"
Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
Augustana - "Boston". Grey's Anatomy strikes again.
Arcade Fire - Another TV track: "Cold Wind" from Six Feet Under.
Matt Costa - "December"
Love - "Alone Again Or"
Calexico (with Nicolai Dunger) - "Alone Again Or"
Calexico - "Bisbee Blue" and "Roka" - from their live session on iTunes.
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Grateful Dead - live versions of "Cold Rain & Snow", "Cassidy", "Terrapin Station", and "Jack Straw" from the revamped official site's neat weekly feature, The Taper's Section.
Shawn Colvin - "Crazy"
Harry Nilsson - "You're Breaking My Heart", "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song", and "One"
Bob James - "Rush Hour".
Joe Henry - "Vigilante"
(Everything after the Shawn Colvin track came from the ever-generous and often entertaining Jefitoblog. The Bob James and first two Nilsson tracks were not keepers.)

January '07
Big month, including the holiday-related gifts and acquisitions. New administrative policy: the Parenthetical fiscal music year begins on Christmas Day.
Beatles - Love
Ben Folds - "Adelaide"
Bonnie Raitt - "I Will Not Be Broken", "You", "I Don't Want Anything To Change" from her recent live disc
Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse Of The Heart"
Camera Obscura - about half of Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken
Death Cab For Cutie - "Blacking Out The Friction (live)"
Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"
Gomez - Five Men In A Hut
Honeydrippers - "Sea Of Love"
Indigo Girls - Despite Our Differences
John Mayer - Continuum
Jose Gonzalez - Stay In The Shade EP and half of Veneer
Joseph Arthur - Nuclear Daydream
Josh Joplin - "Camera One"
Modern Skirts - Catalogue Of Generous Men
Olivia Newton-John - "A Little More Love"
Pete Townshend - Deep End Live!
Rachael Yamagata - Happenstance
Ryan Adams - "So Alive"
Shawn Colvin - "Never Saw Blue Like That"
Tori Amos - "A Sorta Fairytale" and "Sweet The Sting"

December '06
Funkadelic - "You Hit The Nail On The Head"
Bill Evans - At The Village Vanguard and Explorations
Josh Ritter - Girl In The War digital EP and Hello Starling
Califone - "The Orchids" and "Pink And Sour"

November '06
Richard Thompson - "Shenandoah", "Night & Day", "Tempted", and "Oops! ... I Did It Again" from his live 1000 Years Of Popular Music.
Black Crowes - Freak 'N Roll Into The Fog

October '06
Aimee Mann - One More Drifter In The Snow
Erin McKeown - Sing You Sinners
Pernice Brothers - Live A Little

September '06
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Hem - Funnel Cloud

August '06
Easy-Star All Stars - Radiodread
Ray Charles - "Sittin' On Top Of The World"
Gary Numan - "Cars"
Hall & Oates - "Used To Be My Girl"
Cracker - "Teen Angst", "Get Off This", "Ain't Gonna Suck Itself" (I feel compelled to point out that the latter is a fine addition to the "flipping off the record label" genre, with a bit more cleverness than the title implies; if only Van Morrison had this sense of humor.) From their own re-recording hits compilation.
John Hiatt - "Memphis In The Meantime", "Thing Called Love", "Tennessee Plates", "Perfectly Good Guitar", "Slow Turning" from his Austin City Limits disc.
Guster - Parachute
M - "Popmuzik"
Kinks - "Destroyer"
Neil Finn - "Lullaby Requiem" and "Human Kindness". I never picked up One All.

July '06
Barenaked Ladies - Easy (EP, emusic version)
Sufjan Stevens - "Chicago" (acoustic version)
Innocence Mission - almost all of Befriended
Harvey Danger - six tracks from Little By Little ...
Matt Pond PA - five tracks from Measure
The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes (acoustic)"
Themes from "Magnum, P.I.", "Northern Exposure" and "Twin Peaks"
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - Stranger Things

eMusic - June '06
Moby - "Porcelain" and "Natural Blues"
White Stripes - "Hotel Yorba", "The Denial Twist", "Forever For Her"
The Turtles - "Happy Together"
Randy & The Bloody Lovelies -- Lift
Matt Pond PA -- About half of Green Fury, "Measure 5" from I Thought You Were Sleeping, and all of The Nature Of Maps.
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years

eMusic and Paste Vault, etc. - May '06
Tom Waits - "How's It Gonna End"
Starlight Mints - "Inside Of Me"
The Shins - "Kissing The Lipless"
The Weakerthans - "Plea From A Cat Named Virtue", "The Reasons"
Moby - "Beautiful", "Lift Me Up"
Rickie Lee Jones - "Bitchenostrophy", "Little Mysteries"
Jolie Holland - "Black Stars", "Old Fashioned Morphine"
Josh Ritter - "California", "Kathleen", "Thin Blue Flame (live)"
Brendan Benson - "Cold Hands Warm Heart", "Gold Into Straw"
Billy Joe Shaver - "No Fool Like An Old Fool"
Chris Brown - "All My Rivals"
David William - "Satellites"
David Mead - most of Tangerine
Warren Zanes - most of Memory Girls
Warren Zanes - most of People That I'm Wrong For
The Raconteurs - "Steady As She Goes", "Intimate Secretary", "Together", "Yellow Sun"
Derby - This Is The New You
David Mead - Wherever You Are (EP)
Buffalo Tom - "Summer"
Neko Case - Blacklisted

iTunes - 4/25/06
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Bobby Darin - "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You"
Dixie Chicks - "Not Ready To Make Nice"

yourmusic - April '06

eMusic - March '06
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Josh Rouse - Subtitulo
Hem - I'm Talking With My Mouth EP
Cal Tjader - "I Say A Little Prayer For You" from Sounds Out Burt Bacharach
Edwyn Collins - "A Girl Like You"
Blondie - "More Than This" (cover of the Bryan Ferry hit)
Blondie - "Dreaming" (live)

eMusic - February '06
Hem - No Word From Tom
Josh Rouse - The Smooth Sounds Of Josh Rouse (live audio from the DVD)
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Eels - "Losing Streak" from Live At Town Hall

eMusic - January '06
Richard Thompson - "Persuasion" from Austin City Limits
Beethoven - Symphonies 5 & 6
Sloan - "Losing California" from Between The Bridges
Derek Trucks Band - "Footprints" and "Naima"
Calexico - "Untitled III (Remix by Two Loneswordsmen)"
Cat Power - The Greatest
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
John Hiatt - "Howlin' Down The Cumberland" from Master Of Disaster
Johnny Cash - "Get Rhythm", "I Walk The Line", and "Big River"
Modern English - "I Melt With You (Carl's Stop The World Mix)"

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