Yet every thrift store, garage sale, and public library's music section is absolutely glutted with classical LPs that nobody wants. How did this happen if classical music is so hard to purchase new? Serious question.

Oh, man, you were armed for your Freshman year of college with that selection, weren't you? Your roommates owned Dark Side of the Moon, Workingman's Dead and Steve Miller Band 1974-78 (no matter how many roommates you had, each one of them owned each of these), that one "sensitive" guy down the hall had the R.E.M. and…

*sniff* I find all recorded media crude and unworthy of automotive listening, which is why I always drive with a live jazz combo in the car.

Ditto. In my neck of the woods, Goodwill sells used (and, sometimes, new-and-still-shrinkwrapped) CDs for $1.50. I will take a chance on almost anything for $1.50, if I find amusing track titles, appreciate the artwork, see connections to musicians I already like, or am intrigued by an artist I've never heard of…

RZZZZZZZ!

When you're climbing up a ladder
And you hear something splatter
!
When you're sliding into first
And you feel something burst
!
Some people think it's gross
But it's pretty good on toast
!

GYMKATA!

It's great to have all the b-sides and rare oddities, but the brickwalled mastering on Then is a shame. I bought it the year it came out (1997) and I remember thinking, whoa, this CD is way louder than anything else I own.

Do you feel heavy metal?

Apparently they've learned from their past mistakes, as they've had the "non-commital 3-and-a-half star review" down to a pure science for the last couple of decades.

And I sometimes feel cheated that I came of age in the '80s, so that sex and potential death were never inseparable. It put a real damper on coming out when half the people I told would immediately ask, "Oh God, are you telling me this because you… you have…"

Hey, you don't have to apologize for not being born knowing all about an era that preceded your birth. You're obviously paying attention, and that's more than many people do.

Yes. If there is a single silver lining to be found in the wake of the devastation wrought by AIDS — and we have to fucking try to focus on that silver lining — it is that, in the eyes of those who would rather have continued to look away, it turned gays from unfathomable freaks back into human beings.

Christ. The music didn't even matter… The moment you saw the @ in Menswe@r, you knew the rest of the '90s was gonna blow.

KULA SHAKER 4EVARRRRRRR

Yes, as long as you know going into it that it's not going to "rock". It's a sad Sunday afternoon album.

This album is just about exactly what you'd get if you stuck Albarn's Everyday Robots in a blender and set it to "Blur".

The CD packaging is nicely done too, with appropriately Japanese design tropes like the tracklisting reading right-to-left, English titles only on the obi, a colorful inner design hidden behind a solid black CD tray, and the CD itself is a big yellow happy face. Very clever. The Japanese-only spine is sure to…

…uh, which is why the recut would replace the studio-imposed CGI crap with the originally-shot practical effects… exactly as George_Liquor said. Read much?

He meant to say Oingo Boingo, not Van Halen. Obviously.