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Day Two Hundred Seventy Five (Year Two)

So, I stopped at the final day of the Planned Parenthood Book Sale this morning.  Everything was 75% off.  What that means is that each CD I took home (originally priced at $4 per disc ended up costing me $1 each. I wound up making quite the haul.  I took home 14 books and 8 CDs for less than $20.  Here's what I ended up with music-wise from the book sale:

1) Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden
2) Daybreaker - Beth Orton
3) Another Fine Day - Golden Smog
4) Gravity Kills (Selftitled)
5) Fear - Toad The Wet Sprocket
6) Rarities, B-Sides, & Other Stuff - Sarah McLachlan
7) Becoming What You Are - The Juliana Hatfield Three
8) Mirrorball - Sarah McLachlan

Not bad pickups for a total of $8.  I'm planning on taking some, if not all, of them along with me for the roadtrip up to see SL tomorrow.  I'm thinking I'll take a guitar with me.  Not that I'll get much of a chance to play while I'll be up there, but I haven't had much of a chance to play lately and might just take any chance I can get.

Stopped by the mall today, ostensibly for a haircut, but wound up finding two more things that were musical in nature:

1) American Slang - The Gaslight Anthem (on vinyl!)
2) Comes & Goes - Default

All told, I feel like I found a lot of really good stuff today.

What's interesting is that, considering all that, I've been having trouble picking stuff to listen to of late.  Usually that means that I'm in the headspace to write.  Admittedly, that's part of the reason I want to bring an axe along with me tomorrow.  Just to see if anything comes out when I sit with a guitar.

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