$5 Albums | December 2012

Another month, another list of $5 albums from Amazon. Some really good ones. Here are my recommendations as well as a link to the rest.

• Sera Cahoone: Deer Creek Canyon
• Now, Now: Threads
• Grimes: Visions
• Broken Bells: Broken Bells
• Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
• Civil Twilight: Holy Weather
• Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope | A truly great album
• Bruce Springsteen: The Rising
• Mark Eitzel: Don't Be A Stranger
• M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
• AC Newman: Shut Down The Streets
• The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
• Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory
• The Strokes: Is This It
• Menomena: Moms
• Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
• See all 100 $5 albums for December

Stream FREE | Avett Brothers: The Carpenter

The new album from The Avett Brothers, The Carpenter, is now streaming FREE in full at NPR Music First Listen. Go listen and let me know what you think. One of the best bands in the world right now, in my opinion. Both a personal and family favorite. I own everything they've done and will buy this one when it releases on September 11th.

Also check out their recent 9+ minute interview with NPR Music: Matters of Life & Death. Check out The Avett Brothers' website for more.

Music Monday 8.27.12

STREAMING

• Animal Collective: Centepede Hz
• Cat Power: Sun
• Stars: The North
• Swans: The Seer (Pitchfork, Best New Album)
• Dan Deacon: America
• Deerhoof: Breakup Songs

CHEAP

• Luciano Pavarotti: 75th Birthday Limited Edition ($2.99 for 100 songs)
• $5 August Albums: including Ryan Adams, Whitesnake, Wilco, The Walkmen, Caribou, The Dead Weather, Pearl Jam, Green Day, & tons more
• Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here ($3.99)

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Purity Ring: Shrines
• Passion Pit: Gossamer
• Baroness: Yellow & Green
• Wayfarer: The River (FREE)
• Tnght: Tnght

1,000+ $5 Albums | My Faves

Now that I'm back from vacation, I can highlight my favorite $5 albums out of Amazon's 1,000+ $5 albums for August. A bunch of good stuff!

• The Avett Brothers: Emotionalism | Four Thieves Gone | Mignonette | Live Vol 2
• Brandi Carlile: Bear Creek 
• Anais Mitchell: Young Man In America
• The Black Keys: Brothers
• Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
• The XX: XX
• The Lumineers: The Lumineers
• Joe Pug: The Great Despiser | Messenger
• Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself
• The Walkmen: Heaven
• Caribou: Swim | Andorra | Swim Remixes
• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong | The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 
• Pearl Jam: Ten
• The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers
• Green Day: Dookie | American Idiot | 21st Century Breakdown | Nimrod | Insomniac
• Rich Mullins: Songs | Songs 2 | Pictures In The Sky | A Liturgy, A Legacy & A Ragimuffin Band | Brother's Keeper
• Phil Wickham: Heaven & Earth
• Flogging Molly: Speed of Darkness 
• Wye Oak: Civilian | The Knot | If Children
• The Dead Weather: Horehound | Sea of Cowards
• Cat Power: The Greatest
• Silversun Pickups: Carnavas | Neck of the Woods
• Hospitality: Hospitality
• Bonobo: Black Sands
• Sleigh Bells: Reign Of Terror
• Destroyer: Kaputt | Destroyer's Rubies
• J. Tillman: Year In The Kingdom | Vacilando Territory Blues | Singing Ax
• Fort Atlantic: Fort Atlantic
• Mary Gauthier: The Foundling
• Liars: WIXIW
• Metric: Synthetica
• Death Cab For Cutie: Plans
• Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Here
• Givers: In Light
• Trampled By Turtles: Palomino | Stars & Satellites | Duluth
• Regina Spektor: Begin To Hope | Far 
• Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst
• Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska | Born To Run
• Civil Twilight: Holy Weather | Civil Twilight
• Bad Books: Bad Books
• M. Ward: Post-War | A Wasteland Companion | Transistor Radio | Hold Time | Transfiguration of Vincent
• She & Him: Volume 1 | Volume 2
• The Magnetic Fields: Love at the Bottom of the Sea | The Wayward Bus | The Charm of the Highway Strip
• Spoon: Gimme Fiction | Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga | Kill The Moonlight
• Ryan Adams: 29 | Love Is Hell Pt 1 | Love Is Hell Pt 2 | Follow the Lights 
• Jars of Clay: Redemption Songs | Who We Are Instead
• Yuck: Yuck
• Coldplay: X & Y |
• Lambchop: Mr. M
• Amos Lee: Amos Lee
• Alejandro Escovedo: Big Station
• St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
• Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter: Marble Son
• David Gray: Draw The Line
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
• Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines
• Missy Higgins: The Ol' Razzle Dazzle
• John Hiatt: Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns
• Van Halen: 1984 | Van Halen II
• Whitesnake: Whitesnake
• Guns N' Roses: G N' R Lies
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | 
• John Coltrane: Ballads | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
• Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde | Blood On The Tracks | Highway 61 Revisited 

Neil Young

• Harvest
• Greatest Hits
• Decade
• After the Gold Rush
• Live Rust
• Rust Never Sleeps
• Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere
• Zuma
• Unplugged

Greatest Hits

Michael W. Smith (The Second Decade) | The Cars | ELO | Chicago | Ramones | The Doors | Kansas | Otis Redding | Johnny Cash | Poison | Van Halen | Alice In Chains | Heart (another, another) | REO Speedwagon | Elvis | MC Hammer | Bob Dylan | Drive-By Truckers | David Allen Coe | Crowded House | ZZ Top | Billie Holliday | Living Colour

TONS of Good & Cheap Music 12.24.11

Amazon is having a massive sale on MP3 albums. All are $5 or cheaper. Nearly all of my Best Albums of 2011 & honorable mentions are super-cheap! And there are many more great albums for sale beyond my list. Check these out!

NEW = Recently found & added to the original list

From my Best Albums of 2011 list...

• #1 - The Poison Tree: The Poison Tree | $4.99
• #2 - PJ Harvey: Let England Shake | $5
• #4 - Bon Iver: Bon Iver, Bon Iver | $4.99
• #5 - Josh Garrels: Love & War & The Sea In Between | FREE
• #6 - The Field: Looping State of Mind | $4.99
• #7 - Wye Oak: Civilian | $5
• #8 - Low: C'mon | $5
• #9 - The Decemberists: The King Is Dead | $3.99
• #11 - Dawes: Nothing Is Wrong | $4.99
• #12 - James Blake: James Blake | $3.99
• #13 - The Antlers: Burst Apart | $4.99
• #14 - Beirut: The Rip Tide | $4.99
• #15 - The Roots: Undun | $3.99
• #17 - The Horrors: Skying | $5
• #18 - Middle Brother: Middle Brother | $5
• #19 - Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues | $5
• #20 - The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar | $3.99
• #21 - Glasser: Ring | $4.99
• #22 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Belong | $4.99
• #23 - Wilco: The Whole Love | $2.99
• #24 - Ha Ha Tonka: Death of a Decade | $5
• #25 - Dolorean: The Unfazed | $4.99
• #26 - The War on Drugs: Slave Ambient | $5
• #27 - Crystal Castles: (II) | $4.99
• #28 - Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire | $4.99
• #29 - Explosions in the Sky: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care | $4.99
• #30 - My Morning Jacket: Circuital | $4.99
• #31 - Washed Out: Within or Without | $5
• #32 - Okkervil River: I Am Very Far | $5
• #33 - Real Estate: Days | $3.99
• #34 - Cults: Cults | $5
• #35 - Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost | $5

Honorable mentions...

• Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation | $4.99
• Gillian Welch: The Harrow & The Harvest | $4.99
• Smith Westerns: Dye It Blonde | $4.99
• Radiohead: The King of Limbs | $4.99
• Atlas Sound: Parallax | $4.99
• Other Lives: Tamer Animals | $4.99
• Sepalcure: Sepalcure | $4.99

 Other recommended albums for $5 and under...

• Five Avett Brothers albums - NEW
• Eight Over the Rhine albums | All $4.99 - NEW
• Five Dirty Three albums | all $4.99 - NEW
• Four Tet: Fabriclife 59 & DJ-Kicks | Both $4.99 - NEW
• Delta Spirit: History From Below (my #4 of 2010) & Ode To Sunshine | $4.99
• The National: High Violet (my #2 of 2010) & The Boxer & Alligator | $4.99
• Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago & Rook | $4.99
• Doug Burr: O Ye Devastator (my #6 of 2010) & On Prominade | $4.99 
• David Ford: Songs for the Road | $4.99 (my #4 of 2008)
• The Antlers: Hospice | $4.99 (my #1 of 2009)
• Arcade Fire: The Suburbs | $5 (my #3 of 2010) & Funeral & Neon Bible | $4.99 - NEW
  
• Titus Andronicus: The Monitor | $4.99 (my #5 of 2010)
• Radiohead: Kid A & | $4.99 - NEW
• The Roots: How I Got Over | $4.99 - NEW
• M83: Saturdays = Youth | $4.99 - NEW
• The Black Keys: The Big Come Up & Thickfreakness & Rubber Factory | $4.99 - NEW
• Radiohead: I Might Be Wrong & Amnesiac & OK Computer & Pablo Honey & The Bends & Tkol Rmx 1234567 & Hail to the Thief & | $4.99 - NEW
• Explosions in the Sky: The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place & Those Who Tell The Truth & All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone & How Strange, Innocence | $4.99
• Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend & Contra | $4.99 - NEW
• Brandi Carlile: Live at Benaroya Hall | $5
• St. Vincent: Strange Mercy | $4.99 - NEW
• Cut Copy: Zonoscope | $5
• The Head & The Heart: The Head & The Heart | $5
• Tom Waits: Bad As Me | $2.99 & Mule Variations | $5
• Feist: Metals | $4.99 - NEW
• Lecrae: Rebel | $4.99 - NEW
• Jay-Z: Watch the Throne | $4.99 - NEW
• Joe Pug: Messenger | $5
• Apparat: The Devil's Walk | $5
• Tron: Legacy - NEW
• Russian Circles: Empros | $5
  
• Blind Pilot: We Are The Tide | $4.99 - NEW
• Sleigh Bells: Treats | $5
• David Bazan: Strange Negotiations | $5
• Animal Collective: Feels | $4.99
• Tune-Yards: W H O K I L L | $5
• Metric: Fantasies & Live It Out & Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? | $4.99 - NEW
• Future Islands: On The Water | $4.99 - NEW
• The Decemberists: The Crane Wife & Picaresque &  & | $4.99 - NEW
• Death Cab for Cutie: Codes & Keys | $5 & Transatlanticism | $4.99 - NEW
• U2: The Joshua Tree | $4.99 - NEW
• James Vincent McMorrow: Early In The Morning | $5
• Surfer Blood: Astro Coast | $5
• Guns N' Roses: Appetite for Destruction | $4.99 - NEW
• Destroyer: Kaputt | $5
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes | $5
• The Cave Singers: No Witch | $5
• Apex Manor: The Year of Magical Drinking | $5
• Flogging Molly: Speed of Darkness & Swagger | $5
• Elbow: Build a Rocket Boys! | $5
• Once Soundtrack | $5
• Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More | $4.99
• Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for my Halo | $5
• Florence + The Machine: Ceremonials | $3.99
• The Civil Wars: Barton Hollow | $4.99
• The Gaslight Anthem: The '59 Sound | $5
• Givers: In Light | $5
• Yuck: Yuck | $5
• Telekinesis: 12 Desperate Straight Lines | $5
• Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | $5
• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | $5
• John Coltrane: Blue Train | $5
• Theolonious Monk: Genius of Modern Music, Vol 1 | $5
• Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Moanin' | $5

Cheap Albums 12.19.11

A handful of really good, cheap albums right now. All $3.99 unless listed otherwise.

• Girls: Father, Son, Holy Ghost
• The Joy Formidable: The Big Roar
• Cut/Copy: Zonoscope
• James Blake: James Blake
• The Roots: Undun
• Real Estate: Days
• Coldplay: Parachutes & A Rush of Blood to the Head ($2.99 each)
  
• Death Cab for Cutie: Codes & Keys
• $5 Albums for December

$4.99 Albums | Amazon Black Friday (NOW)

Amazon is selling a handful of albums for $4.99 this week (for Black Friday). Here are the ones they've marked down so far. More to come. Enjoy!

• St. Vincent: Strange Mercy
• Best Coast: Crazy For You
• Ryan Adams: Ashes & Fire
• Atlas Sound: Parallax
• Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks
  
• Washed Out: Within & Without
• Tom Waits: Bad As Me
• Betty Wright & The Roots: The Movie
• Coldplay: Mylo Xyloto
• Gavin DeGraw: Sweeter
• Alison Krauss & Union Station: Paper Airplane