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Day One Hundred Seventy Four

Went to Half Price Books today. I hadn't found much music there in what seems like forever, but today I hit upon a couple of things.

1) Long Road Out Of Eden - The Eagles
2) It's A Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse
3) The Great War - Justin Currie

and

4) Gunmetal Gray - Grace Basement

The Eagles record, I was simply curious. I've got a lot of their old stuff, and have wanted to hear the newest stuff for a while, I just wasn't up for buying it new.

As for Sparklehorse, I have a couple of their records, and they are both long, winding, dark, strange, beautiful things. I'm hoping this other one is the same. Plus, the world lost Mark Linkous last year, and I had to pay tribute to his loss somehow.

Justin Currie is perhaps better known as the frontman from Del Amitri (who is freaking amazing, by the way), and I'm interested to hear how he comes across by himself.

And finally, as for the Grace Basement record... it's been there for six months, at least. Probably more, actually. How do I know? Simple. It's caught my eye every time I've been there during that time. And every time, I pull it out of the bins, look at it, and say to myself... "if it's there the next time..." I can even tell you why it piqued my interest in the first place. I've got a regular customer named Grace, who is pretty amazing. I kept wondering if the music would match the person. While the music on that record may not be the sort that Gracie would listen to on a regular basis, it was actually really cool. Granted, I haven't been through the whole album yet, but I did throw it in on the way home from HPB, and was pleasantly surprised. Then again, I usually have good luck when it comes to random music purchases.

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