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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Lists / Shit Talk / Business This Round-up of CDs You See in Every Used Bin Is Pretty Accurate

Posted by on Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:23 PM

Another CD cover I never want to see again for the rest of my life.
  • Another CD cover I never want to see again for the rest of my life.

Buzz Feed’s run-down of CDs you see cluttering up used bins everywhere resonates with annoying truth. It made me flash back to my stint as a part-time record-store employee in 2003-2004, during which I'd roll my eyes as yet more copies of the same damn titles would arrive on a nearly daily basis. But the 38 albums in writer Matthew Perpetua's list are far from comprehensive. He left out these ubiquitous discarded discs (which are just a fraction of the deluge):

The Cranberries- Bury the Hatchet
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Björk- Homogenic
Beck- Sea Change
Santana- Supernatural
Moby- almost every title, but especially Play and 18
Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral

Even all-time consensus classics like Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, Nirvana’s Nevermind, and John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme appear with some regularity in used bins. Really, anything that was massively popular at some point inevitably seems to end up in the compact-disc cemetery. Anybody have a Celexa?

 

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gttrgst 1
Red, Hot and...anything.

Purchased this a.m. at the local antique mall for $2 each:
Tame Yourself ~ PETA comp
No Alternative ~ w/ the Nirvana Sappy hidden track
Of Montreal ~ Coquelicot Asleep in the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse (cutout promo)
Girl Eats Boy ~ Comin' In Loaded
The Frogs ~ Star Job (did Skratchie ever make a t-shirt with that S logo?)

Posted by gttrgst on March 14, 2013 at 1:19 PM
icouldliveinhope 2
I always see REM's Out Of Time. Pretty much without fail.
Posted by icouldliveinhope on March 14, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Grant Brissey, Emeritus 3
Nailed it with Monster
Posted by Grant Brissey, Emeritus http://www.grantropolis.com/ on March 14, 2013 at 9:44 PM

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