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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Business / Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Currently Flooding Used CD Bins at Everyday Music

Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:43 PM

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My, how the mightily hyped of the mid-'00s have fallen. Or are people just burning the CDs to their iTunes/iPods and ditching the package in which the music's housed? Whatever the case (pun intended), there's been an alarming influx of Arulars and Kalas in those new arrival bins at Everyday Music—which I use as a gauge for mass musical tastes in general, as it's one of the last record shops alive that tries to be all things to all people. (You can also find multiple copies of nearly every Beck release in there, too. Could it be part of the burgeoning Scientology backlash?)

Although the urge to play M.I.A.'s albums doesn't strike me very often, when it does, I still really enjoy her music. So, are you among the droves of consumers who have you fallen out of love with Ms. Arulpragasam and expunged her CDs from your shelves or deleted her MP3s from your hard drives?

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The first of the two theories is probably the most accurate. People don't burn cd's to their Ipod and then trade the cds in at Everyday because Everyday gives very bad/laughable values when you trade in CDs to them. I traded in 20 cds to them (some of them unopened and untouched) of quaility music and they ended up giving me $5 for all of them! This is even worse, because Im sure they are going to try and sell everyone of those CDS for $8+

Posted by danmm on June 9, 2009 at 6:32 PM

So you have a social pattern theory based on the used bins in one record store and you need Lineout blog commenters to prove it? You finalizing your SCCC dissertation or trying to convince Dan to let you write a story ouside of the music section?

Posted by Meatbot3000 on June 9, 2009 at 7:55 PM

I don't think anyone's fallen out of love with her. I think the issue here is that people never fell in love. People are sheep, and they have short attention spans. Thus, they went out and purchased "Arular" based on the hype at the time, or they purchased "Kala" after they heard "Paper Planes." And then their dumb asses moved on to something else, and remembered they're not really smart enough to enjoy Sri Lankan guerrilla disco-funk dance music (or whatever) and they sold these CDs back.

Regardless of all that, "Arular" is still a badass record. "Kala" is good, not great, but "Arular" thumps.

Posted by Grease Wizard on June 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM

I sold 'Arular' in 2006. In the following three years, I've never had the urge to listen to any of the songs on that album.

Two years from now, everyone who wears plaid shirts and is on Sub Pop will be in the used bins.

Posted by cosby

on June 10, 2009 at 9:23 AM

cd's are a burden and really, just for burning purposes at this point. i see people buying new ones...i cringe and laugh simultaneously. the new cassettes i tell ya...

i got both my arular and kala on vinyl fool. they both are bumpin' and i think mia is just great. ditto for some of beck's stuff. your theory - uh, cd's? please.

Posted by birdy num num on June 10, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Bullseye classics.

Whoever sold them never should've bought them.

Music's still trying to catch up to her.

Posted by Dean Fawkes

on June 10, 2009 at 10:11 PM

awash in hype.
and i think her music is bullshit.

Posted by Casual_Observer on June 11, 2009 at 10:55 AM

Both amazing records, with Kala her peak so far—and I sold my copies of both records to Everyday after I went all-digital (with double external hard-drive backup...)

Posted by David Schmader on June 11, 2009 at 4:06 PM