I like bargain hunting and buying used CDs cos I'm often buying something I'd have never specifically walked into the store for. It's how I came across Source Tags & Codes. Having seen Trail of Dead on many of your profiles, and a used copy selling for $5.99, I thought, What the hell? T'was my lucky day!

I went berserk again.

Cat Power - Covers ($6).
Catherine Wheel - Like Cats & Dogs ($6).
Bright Eyes - There is No Beginning.. ($5). I put it on whilst busy and basically missed it. I'm thinking it'll fall somewhere between Not Stunning and Not Bad.
Blondie - No Exit ($3). Ay, three bucks --bfd. I'll probably never play it.
Flaming Lips - '84 - '90 ($6). Maybe I'll go for their early stuff. Otherwise, it's stuff like this that keeps my collection from becoming totally straight-forward "commercial indie". I fantasize a nineteen year old indie beauty spies this in my collection, is impressed and her brain snapes misfire, saying, "Let's jump into the sack."
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids ($6). First two were gigantic great. Gentlemen starts atmospheric shite. But I bought it anyway.
Lisa Stansfield - affection ($5). Been around the world and ai, yii, yii, yii, yii, yiiii, yyiii, yii, yiyiiii.....
XTC - Nonsuch ($3). Three dollars, shit.
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern ($3). Another mismarked disc.
Sint - self-titled ($3). Didn't care for Spiderland. If it's an acquired taste then I hope I live to 108.
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque ($3). There's a store manager chewing someone's ass right now.
T-Rex - Box Set ($20). Six discs! Five CDs of demos and live stuff and a DVD of Marc Bolan live. For $20!!
Bowie - Sound & Vision box set ($36). 4 CDs of the RCA years' tracks not on the albums proper.
Garbage - debut record ($8). Brilliant, brilliant record.

Got Built to Spill's Ancient Melodies which is quite good. Oooo!!, Idlewild's 100 Broken Windows is very, very good. Now, part of the 'elite' class of CDs in my collection: records that get multiple plays. Gonna purchase more Idlewild, I should think. Fiery Furnance's Blueberry Boat I flipped off after a couple of minutes. Not gonna condemn them just yet, but dramatic operettic atmosphere is too deep for me. I prefers it when ya's jus' plug in the geetar and let her rip. Oh. But not Megadeath "rip". Can't just leave yer brain at the door, y'a know? Comets of Fire's Blue Cathedral - mm, maybe. Sorta seemed to press my sense of what a tune's melodic sensibilities ought be. Still loving that Wrens CD, Meadowlands. Hmm. What else?

Or you tell me. What's on your Hot List/Just Heard This List/Records that might or might not be Emo List???