Upon request, I uploaded a video of Chris Cornell singing an acoustic live version of Black Hole Sun to the Internet:

Taken at the end of the amazing Audioslave Halloween concert of 2005 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, MA.

Here’s a photo of Tidal, a CD from Fiona Apple that I used to own.  It came out before mp3s and music sharing hit big; I bought it for the single “Sleep to Dream” and enjoyed “Criminal.”

Those two songs bring me back to sophomore year; playing as background music while writing 3 to 5 page papers due the next day.  It’s a somewhat melancholy tune that brings on a mellow mood, but tends ot get lost in the other 3000+ songs in the collection.

Bought for $18, now selling for a penny on Amazon.  I ripped three of the songs off the CD and later donated it to Goodwill.

Godspeed, Fiona.

The new iPod nano commercial shows a video from “Feist,” shown in its entirety below:

What a great video and concept - setting up the expectation of a dance number, and then surprising expectations through camera moves and seamless choreography.

The Pulp Fiction soundtrack went out the door with my CD Cleanup. It is now selling for 1 dollar and 1 quarter on Amazon, no doubt due to the fact that everybody around my age bought it, listened to it 1000 times, converted it to mp3, and is now discarding it.

Plus, the soundtrack is SO evocative of the 90s that it’s gotten old (like me, I guess!). I have the music but no real nostalgia for the packaging, so away it went.

The B-52s Cosmic Thing was one of the CDs I purged from my collection.   There are exactly two songs worth listening to on this CD: Love Shack and Roam.

As of this writing it is selling  for 10 cents used on Amazon.com.  Add about $2 minimum for shipping and it costs $2.10 used - 10 cents more than it would cost to buy the two songs listed above on eBay.

Farewell to thee, B-52s CD.  I will endlessly enjoy the songs on my iPod but I’m glad to have the quarter inch of shelf space back.