I Cannot Be Trusted at Waterloo Records

I really can't. Every time I go over there, I have a clearly defined goal:

...buy two or three interesting things from the used CD section...

...see if they have the latest from (insert local band here)...

...start my collection of a band with these specific releases...

But oh, no. I walk in there and it's all over. Plans are torn up within minutes. Eating suddenly becomes less important. Goals are widened to include things I never knew existed (and can't possibly live without)™.

I wanted to buy three things today, expecting to fork over about $40-45. Instead, I bought 13 CDs and spent $177. The final count:

1. Amon Tobin - 4 Ton Mantis EP (I saw this in the used section and only let the surprise and the pleasure hit me after I had it in my paws)
   
2. Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway EP (this just came out and I buy everything they release because it's just that good)
   
3. DJ Food - Kaleidoscope (probably the only CD I could have put back and not feel guilty for passing it up; still, the album that contained Ken Nordine's "The Ageing Young Rebel" has got to have other excellent material on it)
   
4. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place (this band was on my original list; I have nothing from them and I've heard many good things)
   
5. Godspeed You Black Emperor! - f# a# (infinity) (ditto)
   
6. Medeski, Martin, and Wood - Tonic (pure impulse buy: MMW have never disappointed me)
   
7. Miles Davis Quintet - Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
   
8. Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
   
9. Miles Davis Quintet - Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
   
10. Miles Davis Quintet - Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (someone had all four of these extended resolution CDs in the used section and I snapped them up on pure Miles Davis principles)
    
11. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees EP (this is a weird one, part of a series of three used EPs from the mid-90's that I picked because it had more tracks than the others and three of them are acoustic)
    
12. Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
    
13. Sigur Rós - Svefn-G-Englar EP (again, a band I own nothing of and a band that comes highly recommended)

Previous admissions of tunes-obsession: Sweet Musical Bliss and Musical Cornucopia. This is clearly a parallel symptom to my impulsive book-buying. I've been very good in restraining that little voice, but it ain't easy.

Now, must get back to "work."

Posted by Drizzten at June 04, 2006 01:16 PM