The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree

Iron & Wine/Calexico - In The Reins

Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell - Begonias

All excellent choices msbelle! You are really going to like Begonias, I think. If I can pimp just ONE song to you it would be "Carolina" by M. Ward off of his album End of Amnesia. I will happily refund you with any song from my account sent to buffistarawk if you don't totally love it.

My account refreshes in exactly 56 minutes and though I will be in bed by then my first download tomorrow will be Robert Pollards' From a Compound Eye. Which will cost me 26 tracks darn it. Oh, RP - why for do you have to have so many songs per album?!?

which I intend to complete and send to Tina

Sweet!

along with the Best of 04 mix I've owed her for over a year now.

Also sweet!

I can return the favor with my best of 05 mix as well.

RP - why for do you have to have so many songs per album?!?

That man acts like his every half-thought is brilliant. Fortunately, he's generally right.

I can return the favor with my best of 05 mix as well.

Little I can say to that besides AWESOME.

Fortunately, he's generally right.

Uh-huh. And the thing is you can't just grab a couple tracks because it will be track 17 that has four kind of boring songs before it and five really kind of bad songs after it that is just KILLER.

Whenever I end the month at emusic with some left over in my account (not often) I collect a little more GBV and Yo La Tengo. I have just about every YLT that they've got but I've got a ways to go with GBV. I am just happy they have so much though.

Ha! I've been doing the same with a couple of albums, just trickling them in. That Yo La 3-disc set from the past year was next in my radar. At least, the tracks from it I don't already have, 'cause I have all the studio albums & a bunch of EPs.

Hey, didja see Britt Daniel on Veronica Mars tonight?

Hey, didja see Britt Daniel on Veronica Mars tonight?

Oooh the freakishly tall elf man (not that he is really all that tall but he is elfish and therefore tall for an elf). I heard he was going to be on. (He and RT are friends or at least both from Austin, yes?) I am still waiting for the t*rrent to become available because my sad no-cable-having self cannot get UPN on the teevee.

That Yo La 3-disc set from the past year was next in my radar.

I got everything off it that I didn't have from elsewhere last month. So good. One of my favorite things to do is just select all my YLT in my iTunes hit shuffle and read/doze/jam out. Love them.

NYT article on Belle & Sebastian: [link]

Questionable Content on Bell & Sebastian: [link]

The entire soundtrack to Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is available as mp3s. [link] Also (at same link) Neil Young with Devo doing "Hey Hey My My."