I was surprised that Oasis' Be Here Now wasn't on this list and that The Features EP IS!

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/features/cas...fs-and-cutouts/

(Edited by damon at 12:13 am on Oct. 6, 2003)

You must be joking, because I looked twice and didn't see the Features EP.

I happened to enjoy Possum Dixon in the day... I feel so violated now...

Damn it damon you just wasted 5 minutes of my precious study time, and an additional minute in making me write this post. Damn you damon!

yeah, i might have made that last bit up.

if it were that common, i'm sure we'd all have it by now.

(Edited by damon at 10:54 am on Oct. 6, 2003)

I read that list a week or so ago and I have to say that it is quite lame. I know pitchforkmedia is all about indie cred and being cool, but they left off every CD that really are the most common used CDs. "Tubthumper"? "Yourself or Someone Like You?" The Rembrandt's "LP"? Yes, even "Be Here Now." Geez.

I always manage to see a copy of Ammonia's "Mint 400", or Geggy Tah's "Sacred Cow" for some reason.

Yeah, I had the Rembrandts "LP", when I was in the 6th grade, I believe. *shame shame* I sold it to Cat's. There's always Blues Traveler in the used racks, as well. Basically any mid-90's Top 40 "Rock" music ends up as a used CD. It's a beautiful cycle, really.

(Edited by MissSeptember at 2:36 pm on Oct. 6, 2003)

Man, they have Filter - Short Bus in that list, that used to be one of my fav. albums, back when I had teen angst and long hair, and watched Brandon Lee in The Crow, and hated my mom....


But when i think of used cd racks, i think of Spin Doctors, Cranberries, and Soundgarden.

(Edited by GrungeSlobTearPants at 2:19 pm on Oct. 6, 2003)

Ahh teen angst. Them were the days. I wonder where my copy of Being and Nothingness is.

I'm pretty proud of the fact that I recently picked up Nirvana's "Bleach" used for 99 cents. And this was about 15 minutes after I'd nearly spent $7.99 for it elsewhere.

Blasphemy!!

The best CD I ever picked up in a used bin was Rasputina, Transylvanian Concubine. Although I enjoy the cello, I'm generally not a fan of this kind of music. The CD was decent....but it was the best one becasue it had a pretty cover that I cut up and glued on my little box that I keep knick-knacks in.

YES,
Rasputina,
Very dark, music, ive heard many remakes of other band's songs. Interesting stuff. For some reason i usually group them and Esthero together in my head, I discovered the bands around the same time period.

I've long said,

"Today's best-selling albums fill tomorrow's used bins."

People don't give up the really good albums.

I'm ready for bins filled with Nickelback, Creed, Avril Lavigne, so on and so forth....

As far as that list goes, there are a few selections I see happening. People often buy stuff to be cool without really liking it, and when it falls out of favor with their friends, out it goes.

I like their contribution to Buffy and its soundtrack, which is "Translyvanian Concubine." I always think of Drusilla when I hear that...

And now back to reality. My best used purchase has to be The La's. One of my favorite albums ever for around $6. I also managed to get two Ride albums and a Hurricane #1 album for a combined cost of $8 at CD Warehouse. I just purchased "Lifes Rich Pagaent" at Hastings the other day for $6...used cd's rule.

(Edited by DigsySlattery at 6:21 pm on Oct. 6, 2003)

i think i got marquee moon for 5 or 6 bucks.
and a jeff buckley for 8. nothing that special but i was pleased.

I love Television. Good buy.

my best used buy might be the shins' "know your onion!" single for $1. it has a wonderful live version of "new slang" on it.

Yeah, and here's why.

And I quote:

"...naturally, questions of volume and locale weigh heavily against how accurate I could really be here, so in aid of making it a more worthwhile guide, I disqualified all but a select few egregious and relevant examples from the the former class [volume]. You will not find Matchbox 20's Yourself or Someone Like You atop this list, though it is unquestionably the most widely available used compact disc in America as of this writing.

There's a dual benefit to ignoring platinum titles: I don't have to write about piece of shit records like Hootie & The Blowfish's Fairweather Johnson, Third Eye Blind's Blue, or Bush's Sixteen Stone. Grunge has been dead since the age of Collective Soul and Candlebox-- thousands of copies of Badmotorfinger sold back by aging yuppies sit in dusty piles as proof-- but beyond questions of aesthetics and scope, I think it'd be an insult to our readership if I presumed you needed any help avoiding The Cranberries, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Live. Dada, though..."

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 3:29 am on Oct. 7, 2003)

as you'll recall from my post back in may, i actually found the features ep at a used cd bin. and was quite shocked too! am i the only one that has, or has another lucky fan found it?

-phil

I've found a couple of sealed copies of it in used CD stores. That and Half Baked Serenade are the two best fins I've found in used CD stores.

i think that's why i jokingly included it, but i can't remember anymore.

Yeah good call Jamie Carroll, I was going to post the same thing. People didn't read the disclaimer.

I can't believe I saw Ben Folds Five's "Whatever and Ever Amen" in the used bin the other day. And somebody apparently sold their entire Beach Boys collection. Those won't be there long.

Sometimes I see CDs in the used bin that clearly indicate that someone has died. Like one time, at Compact Discovery (R.I.P.) in Bellevue, I saw Olympian by Gene. Whoa!