elrod-tom
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About Me
- About elrod-tom
- Biography
- Value Shopping Stereo Wierdo - vintage champagne taste on cheap, stanky beer budget
- Location
- I live in the midrange!! (Metro Detroit Area)
- Interests
- Skiing, golf, sailing, reading, weightlifting, spending time with the wife and kids, and of course U
- Occupation
- Software Development Analyst for a Tax Software Company
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Signature
- Since I found the XLR jacks, I'm not nearly so unbalanced as I used to be!!
Five (or so) in heavy rotation:
Elvis Costello - Momofuku | Chet Baker - Chet (SACD) | The La's - S/T (Deluxe Edition)
Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Roll With You | Eric Clapton - S/T [Deluxe Edition] | The Knack - Get The Knack
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue | Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid | Was Not Was - Boo!
Originally Posted by ThumperIt's about the music...if you ever forget that, it's time to reconsider what you're doing.If you can't say something nice...don't say nothing at all.
- Since I found the XLR jacks, I'm not nearly so unbalanced as I used to be!!
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I'll say it again, one of the things that I really value about services like Rhapsody is that I get to try out some new music prior to buying it. In theory, that ought to result in fewer music purchases...but that's not how it's working out. Truth is, I buy more now because for every album that I wouldn't buy because I listened first, I find 2-3 that I either wouldn't have known about or would have assumed I wasn't interested.
Such is the case with one of my more recent purchases,...
Such is the case with one of my more recent purchases,...
I am lucky enough to be able to listen to music pretty much all day every day at work. Only occasionally, when things get REALLY hairy, do I have to take off the cans (lately the AKG K-81DJ). Of course, I'm not the only one...many of my coworkers do the same thing (well, they don't have the good taste in gear that I have, but oh well...
).I keep a stack of 60 or so 4.7gb dvd-r's in my cube, with 320K files burned onto them. If you figure your garden variety...
Well, this is my first installment in my new blog. As I stated above, my main objective is to introduce folks to music that they might not find on their own. To this end, I submit for your approval, Babyshambles' newest CD, Shotter's Nation.
Now I don't mind telling you that I thumbed my nose at this one right off the bat. I was never all that crazy about The Libertines, and my first listen to Babyshambles was their (IMHO very weak) first album, on Rhapsody. Plus, let's be frank,...
Now I don't mind telling you that I thumbed my nose at this one right off the bat. I was never all that crazy about The Libertines, and my first listen to Babyshambles was their (IMHO very weak) first album, on Rhapsody. Plus, let's be frank,...
