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amazon bender

I went on another of my Amazon music benders today. At the end of it all, I was $76.48 poorer ("Your purse feels lighter." - still one of the best early computer gaming lines, right along with, "You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.") but five CDs and two DVDs richer.

• Depeche Mode, Singles 81-85 - I'm a woefully post-Violator Depeche Mode fan, so this should help to fix that.
• Snow Patrol, Final Straw - Vanessa introduced me to this one, great Britpop.
• Singles soundtrack - As mentioned previously, possibly the consumate grunge sampler. Contains songs hard to find elsewhere.
• Evita, original Broadway cast - I have, of course, seen this recently. The Broadway cast recording is far more complete than the other recordings out there. Also, having sampled (ahem) a couple of songs by Patti Lupone, and based on the fact that she won a Tony for this role, I thought this would be the best recording to get. (Bummer that a copy of it popped up for $2 less right after I bought it for $12. :-P)
• Garden State soundtrack - So many people have recommended this to me that I just gave into the peer pressure.
• DVD, Shaun of the Dead - I watched this a couple of weeks ago and I'm still laughing about it. Sometimes subtle, sometimes crude, always funny and clever.
• DVD, Napoleon Dynamite - Even after the hype, a tremendously enjoyable movie.

So that's what I did. I'm busy trying to justify it all in my own mind as an early celebration of my birthday (especially since the CDs and DVDs coming from different used sellers won't arrive until late next week at the earliest...) Does that work for you?