Earlier today, my mom told me of a local flea market with metric shittons of vinyl and CDs going for cheap, and well, it reminded me that I hadn't even opened my previous cheap CDs, let alone catalogued them. (40 hour menial job work weeks are nightmarish, turns out.) Let's do that quick. Here's some CDs, DVDs, records, and games I bought this spring that I've yet to show off on here.

Quick notes and stories on some of these:

• Most of the CDs came from a store called FYE (like FYI, but For Your Entertainment), which shut down this year and was letting their stock go like 90% off. You could even buy the racks the shit was on if you wanted. It looked pretty fucking dire in there when all was said and done, kids playing tag in the aisles and everything knocked over and scrambled.
• I also picked up that Forensic Files DVD there. I used to catch Forensic Files very late at night as a kid on TruTV after World's Dumbest got done airing. A creepy air of death took over my quiet little suburban house between the ads for Pepboys and Sokolove Law, almost like it was a show about murders or something. Indeed, this one's TruTV branded. A nice little snapshot in time.
• I also got one of those Japanese sodas where you have to push the marble into the bottle in order to open it, as a tribute to when I went in FYE with my older sister as a teenager and got one. I got Japanese Doritos too. They were good.
• The Hootie and the Blowfish and Sleater-Kinney sets are both reissue/limited edition with extra stuff, a second disc of Hootie's self-released EPs and an additional DVD of some live performances in with The Woods. Both were impulse purchases that I've heard very little from, but you can't beat like $3 for a sealed package. (I guess expect a whole lot of Hootie reviews on the main site sometime soon!)
• The three games and the vinyl came from two of our local nerd shops, which I visited with Logan when he was down from Maine last. I was gonna gonna go with Hot Pursuit instead of Porsche Unleashed for the Need for Speed PS1 game, but they misplaced the disc for that one. No worries.
• The vinyl selection at the other nerd shop was unbelievable, not just really good classic rock stuff from Meat Loaf and Cream and Manfred Mann, but 12" rap singles from Method Man, DMX, Eminem (early Eminem too, with the Web Entertainment branding on them). I didn't pick any of that stuff up just because it wasn't at impulse purchase pricing and I wasn't as familiar with the stuff on offer as I wanted to be.
• The Doors record was too scratched to be fully playable, sadly. I did try to check this stuff in the store, but apparently not well enough. It did play okay enough to where I knew I wanted to replace it though, it was good, and at least I didn't pay a ton for the privilege. (I had no idea "Break on Through (to the Other Side)" was censored originally! I'm too used to the Rock Band mix of that song where the "she gets high" line is intact.)
• The Cream LP only has one skip at the end of the first side, thankfully, and it's a pretty kino set. It has my favorite Cream song on it, "SWLABR", which I'd hear all the time at my first grocery store job selling beer to your grandparents. And "Tales of Great Ulysses"! I'd hear that one a lot too.
• Finally, the Chevelle CD and the Pearl Jam DVD both came from that flea market. Apparently it's an all-day event in there, so next Sunday, I aim to get up early and scope it out. (My mom is already asking where I'm gonna put all this stuff, and uhhhhhhh)

Okay, time to actually get listening to some of this stuff...