Paring Down

12:11 am February 15th, 2010




			Ironmaus - Paring Down Broadcasting live from the Haus of Maus

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	Paring Down
	I have way too many CDs. Enough that it's silly. Enough that I don't listen to anywhere near all of them. Some of them, I don't even like but keep on hand because maybe someone else will want to listen to them. It's ridiculous. So, I made myself a promise that, if I could get together over 100 CDs to sell at the used record store, I'd trade them in for credit toward the Beatles remasters box set. I culled 260. Below is the list. If you'd like any of these before I take them to the used CD store, I'll let you have them for used CD prices. Let's say $2.50 per CD, $10 for 5. 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden 10,000 Maniacs - The Wishing Chair AC/DC - Live Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 Bebl Gilberto - Tanto Tempo Billy Miles - Billy Miles Bishop Allen - Charm School Blackalicious - Nia Block - Lead Me Not Into Penn Station (EP) Block - Timing Is Everything Blue Train - The Business of Dreams Boy - Boy Boy on a Dolphin - Words Inside Brice Springsteen - Human Touch Bruce Springsteen - Lucky Town Charlie Mars - Charlie Mars Chris Stills - 100 Year Thing Compilation - 1 Minute Massacre Compilation - Aware Compilation - Aware 3 Compilation - Aware 4 Compilation - Aware 5 Compilation - Aware 6 Compilation - Aware 7 Compilation - Aware 8 Compilation - Best Buy Sampler Vol 2 Compilation - Classic Movie Tracks Compilation - Red Hot + Dance Compilation - The Best of Rockline Compilation - The Best of Sessions At West 54th Compilation - The Unplugged Collection, Volume 1 Compilation - Todd Rundgren; An Elpee Worth of Productions Compilation - Virtually Alternative 63 (2CD) Compilation - Working Class Hero Cornelius - Fantasma Cornershop - When I Was Born For the 7th Time Crazy 8s - Still Crazy After All These Beers Cupcakes - Cupcakes Cyndi Lauper - Sisters of Avalon Damn the Diva - Damn the Diva Dave Navarro - Rexall Dave Stewart - Greetings From The Gutter David Garza - This Euphoria Dead Hot Workshop - River Otis (EP) Deadeye Dick - New Age Girl (Single) Deconstruction - Deconstruction Deep Puddle Dynamics - Deep Puddle Dynamics Def Leppard - Euphoria Del Amitri - Twisted Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer Dharma Bums - Welcome Eels - Electro-Shock Blues Eels - Novocaine For The Soul (Single) Enigma - Return to Innocence (Single) Esthero - Wikked Lil Girls Everything - Supernatural Eve's Plum - Envy Faith No More - Angel Dust Fern - Monologue Fiction Plane - Everything Will Never Be OK Fluke - Atom Bomb (Single) For Squirrels - Example Forest for the Trees - Forest for the Trees Fortran 5 - Bad Head Park Francis Dunnery - Fearless Gigolo Aunts - Flippin' Out Goat - Great Life God Lives Underwater - God Lives Underwater (EP) Goo Goo Dolls - Superstar Car Wash Gus - Word of Mouth Parade Guster - Goldfly Hal featuring Gillian Anderson - Extremis (Single) Hardknox - Hardknox Hells House Band - Dozen Lies His Boy Elroy - His Boy Elroy Hurricane #1 - Hurricane #1 Ian Brown - Golden Greats Ian McCulloch - Candleland Jen Trynin - Gun Shy Trigger Happy Jewel Thieves - Step Inside Joey Altruda - Cocktails with Joey Katell Keineg - O Seasons, O Castles Ke - I Am [ ] K's Choice - Cocoon Crash KWS - Please Don't Go (The Album) Latin Playboys - Dose LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex (EP) Lauren Christy - Lauren Christy Leona Naess - Leona Naess Live - Selling the Drama (Single) Madonna - Human Nature (Single) Marah - Kids in Philly Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground Marvelous 3 - Hey! Album Matthew Sweet - Earth Matthew Sweet - Son of a Beast Matthew Sweet - The Ugly Truth (EP) Matthew Sweet - Time Capsule (EP) Mike + The Mechanics - Mike + The Mechanics Miracle Legion - Drenched Morphine - Bootleg Detroit Morphine - B-Sides and Otherwise Morphine - Sampilation My Like with the Thrill Kill Kult - Sexplosion! Naked Eyes - The Best of Naked Eyes New Found Glory - Catalyst Nikka Costa - Can'tneverdidnothin' Nine Days - The Madding Crowd Oasis - The Masterplan Oasis - Wonderwall (EP) Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage P. Hux - Deluxe Pacifier - Pacifier PM Dawn - Downtown Venus (Single) PM Dawn - I Had No Right (Single) PM Dawn - I Had No Right (Single) PM Dawn - Looking Through Patient Eyes (Single) Pogues - Waiting for Herb Prince and The Revolution - Parade Qkumba Zoo - Wake Up & Dream Quilken - Ash Haired Daughter Robyn - Robyn Is Here Roger Joseph Manning Jr. The Land of Pure Imagination Roger Joseph Manning Jr. The Land of Pure Imagination (The Bonus Tracks) (EP) Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! Roxette - Tourism Sarah McLachlan - Remixed Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing Sarah McLachlan - Touch Schatzi - Death of the Alphabet (EP) Schola Benedicta - On Angels' Wings School of Fish - Human Cannonball Seed - Ling Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow - Tuesday Night Music Club Siddal - The Old Songs From This Old Town (EP) Sing - When We Dance Single Gun Theory - Flow River Of My Soul Siouxsie & The Banshees - Superstition Sleeper - Smart Sleeper - The It Girl Snow Patrol - Songs For Polarbears Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union Soulwax - Any Minute Now Soundtrack - Batman Forever Soundtrack - Clerks Soundtrack - Coneheads Soundtrack - Cool World Soundtrack - Dune Soundtrack - Four Rooms Soundtrack - Frankenstein Soundtrack - Friends Soundtrack - Highlander Soundtrack - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Soundtrack - Mortal Kombat Soundtrack - Reality Bites Soundtrack - Scent of a Woman Soundtrack - Scream Soundtrack - Scream 2 Soundtrack - Scrooged Soundtrack - The X-Files: The Album Soundtrack - Theme from Mission Impossible (Single) Spacehog - The Hogyssey Spin Doctors - Here Comes the Bride Spin Doctors - Homebelly Groove Spin Doctors - Jimmy Olsen's Blues (Single) Spin Doctors - Little Miss Can't Be Wrong (Single) Spin Doctors - What Time Is It? Spin Doctors - You Let Your Heart Go Too Fast (Single) Spirit of the West - Faithlift Spirit of the West - Save This House Sponge - Rotting Pinata Stina - Memories of a Color Stone Temple Pilots - No.4 Sugar - File Under Easy Listening Sun60 - Headjoy Sun60 - Sun60 Sunscreem - O3 Super Sonic Soul Pimps - Live Super Sonic Soul Pimps - Super Sonic Soul Pimps Suzanne Vega - Nine Objects of Desire The Alpha Conspiracy - Cipher The Boneshakers - Book of Spells The Charlatans UK - Between 10th and 11th The Cranberries - To the Faithful Departed The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon Is Over (Single) The Cure - Gone! (Single) The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell And Back The Farm - Love See No Colour The Honeyrods - The Honeyrods The Incredible Moses Leroy - Electric Pocket Radio The London Suede - Stay Together The Mark Curry Tenpin Trio - Down In My Alley The Moody Blues - The Best of The Moody Blues The Murmurs - The Murmurs The Mutton Birds - Nature The Oswald Effect - The Oswald Effect (EP) The Posies - Amazing Disgrace The Rembrandts - LP The Veldt - Marigolds The Well Wishers - Under The Arrows The Wolfgang Press - Funky Little Demons Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick Toad the Wet Sprocket - Bread and Circus Toadies - Rubberneck Todd Thibaud - Favorite Waste of Time Tori Amos - Boys For Pele Tori Amos - Hey Jupiter (EP) Tori Amos - Silent All These Years (Singles) Tracy Bonham - Down Here U2 - Achtung Baby (rabbit chewed) U2 - Stay (Faraway So Close) (EP) UB40 - Labour of Love Ugly Americans - Boom Boom Baby Ugly Americans - Stereophonic Spanish Fly XTC - The Big Express These three are actually worth real money: Halou - Sans Soucie (EP) - $10 Halou - We Only Love You - $20 Odds - Neopolitan - $10 Send me an e-mail, leave a comment, call, do whatever. I'll drag what's left to the store sometime later this week. Feeling: accomplished

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	From: petit_chou	Date: February 15th, 2010 04:36 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

It's funny how many of the same records we're both purging. I'd like the Hoosiers and Harvey Danger. but I can't believe you're ditching Graceland! Horrors!

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 15th, 2010 05:47 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

It's my second copy of Graceland. A fella only needs so many.

I'll keep those other two on hand for you, lady-o.

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	From: toddv	Date: February 15th, 2010 06:20 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Wow, that was probably the single largest spike in the chart of "Matthew is a pretty okay guy - WAIT MATTHEW IS AN AWFUL HUMAN BEING - No, I guess he's an okay guy after all" I've ever experienced. Selling off Graceland is only acceptable if one owns multiple copies already.

There's quite a few that make me say "hmmm, that might be interesting." In normal times, that'd be worth the cash, but I'm going through my own CD reduction project and am trying to only spend money on "I need this", not just "could be worth a listen". I'll take a pass, but thanks for the offer.

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 15th, 2010 10:16 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

I'm glad we share the view of people who sell Graceland.

Yeah, I figure it's a time for many people to be cutting down. The only reason I offered it was to preempt any "Wait! You sold that? For two bucks! I would have bought it!"

Don't worry though, I grabbed a few good songs off the to-be-sold for my mix. :D

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	From: toddv	Date: February 16th, 2010 03:19 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

I should note, however, that Tourism is my personal favorite Roxette album, and if I were in the mood to listen to them, that's definitely the one I would put on. That entitles it to about a biennial playing, though.

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	From: the_role_model	Date: February 16th, 2010 12:56 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Zak and I will buy some of these but will get back to you tonight!

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 16th, 2010 05:45 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Always happy to help with the family collection.

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	From: jakefish	Date: February 16th, 2010 01:45 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Dude, I'm glad the Graceland issue has been thoroughly covered. I couldn't even come up with the right horrible thing to call you!

If it's still available I'd take Clapton's From The Cradle. Don't tell Steve-o because I'll probably save until May for his birthday.

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 16th, 2010 05:44 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Deal.

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From: emshort	Date: February 16th, 2010 08:41 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

I would like: the Art of Noise, the Mazzy Star, the Moby, and the Luka Bloom. Please don't ask why.

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 16th, 2010 04:40 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

I don't think that people who own something in the first place can be critical about others wanting to own those things as well. :D

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	From: counterfeitfake	Date: February 16th, 2010 07:29 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Hal featuring Gillian Anderson - Extremis (Single)

wat

I gather that I am too late to get the copy of Graceland.

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 16th, 2010 07:37 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

wat indeed - Careful watching this, you may gag. Gillian makes the most ridiculous face.

As for Graceland, it is indeed already picked off.

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	From: karlosthejackal	Date: February 18th, 2010 05:07 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

If they're still available, I'd like:

Cheap Trick - The Greatest Hits
John Vanderslice - Pixel Revolt
The Posies - Failure

And maybe a couple more after I run the list by my wife.

(Hello! This is Emily's Film is Truth co-owner.)

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	From: karlosthejackal	Date: February 18th, 2010 05:53 am (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

And maybe a couple more after I run the list by my wife.

Nope, just those three.

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	From: ironmaus	Date: February 18th, 2010 11:54 pm (UTC)		(Perm-a-link)

Awesome. Shoot me an e-mail at IRONMAUS(at)GMAIL with your address, and I'll send them up. That is, unless you're going to be out and about Seattle anytime soon.

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