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Hey Pixlbit! It is a nice Friday morning here in sunny Southern California, and I decided to scrap my first version of this week’s Quick Hits for this version. See I had this whole Uber Pickups blog, but I wasn’t happy with it, so instead I am going to just focus on the one big find this week. No worries though, you’ll see the games I bought since the last Quick Hits later on when I do mini reviews on them. For this week’s Quick Hits I’ve decided to focus on my crazy music pickups I’ve had which I like to call Chris Hits The CD Gold Mine. Kind of like the time when I bought a bunch of records at Goodwill, I think I had one hell of a find when I went to visit the local mom & pop music store. Sound good? Well heck, let’s get this party started!

I had a free day and I decided to hit the local mall. I haven’t been there in a couple of months and I thought it was time to check out my favorite music store, and check out a handful of other stores (a couple of sneaker shops and the GameStop). I found stuff at GameStop, not so much at the sneaker shops but my main focus was looking for new music and I wanted to try the pedometer on the Big Gameboy and see if I can add people to that Mii Plaza thing.

 

This is how many steps I took during my mini journey. I am way past 1337 status.

 

My overly attached Mii met some folks, one person was from New Jersey which is cool, and now I want random headgear like some of the other users have.

So I finally made my way to the music store, and since I was there early all the hipsters were not there, and it was me, the owner, and a couple of guys, which meant I could stroll through the $1.99 wall and not be bothered because I’m standing in front the used CDs that start with the letter “B” (on weekends the younger folks buy up all the used Beatles albums and bootlegs). I spent an hour looking through the Buy 5 Get 5 section and left with this

 

Overall I spent $32 bucks on 30 CDs, or a buck an album. Not a bad deal considering I filled some holes in the library

I added a day’s worth of music, which is always good. I think I spent a good couple of hours just ripping the CDs but it was fun. Anyways I thought I’d share my new pickups with you good people

 

I am a fan of Sarah McLachlan’s voice. I started listening to Surfacing in college and became a fan. I think I am close to completing her discography. I finally complete my Tommy album (I bought Disc 2 a couple of months ago at the same store). Now I don’t have to rip my vinyl copy.

 

More Fleetwood Mac! There are a couple of songs on Escape Club’s Wild Wild West that remind me of going to my friend’s house as a kid. Mickey & Syliva for this alone

 

the rest of the album isn’t bad

Let’s look past the fact that I now own a Hilary Duff CD

 

I started to listening to Van Halen and I like some of it, so I added a couple of albums to library. Adam Carolla always talks about Joe Jackson, and I bought one album and I thought he was just ok. Maybe my thoughts will change with this album.

 

I already own a copy of this Gin Blossoms album (I really enjoy their music but haven’t bought their new album yet) but this one has a different cover than my copy. It might be a different run, released in another country, or just a variant. Drag-On was a big CD among my friends during my first summer as a happy Disney Cast Member. I had a burned copy that never left my Discman (portable CD player)

 

Shai and Chicago on the top row were still sealed. Shai had a couple of songs that were big when I was in high school. Love Leona Lewis and I’m happy to have her debut album in the library.

 

I’ve been debating on buying the Elvis Costello and The Roots album because I don’t know if I’ll like his music as a whole. I like a couple of singles, but I can’t say I’m a fan of his overall body of work. This is my first album of his and I do like Burt Bacharach so it’s a good album for me to give a listen.

 

It’s hard to find Public Enemy CDs here. I have no idea why, but I jumped on this one. I have the CD single from the song Give It Up that came from this album.

 

My final CDs from my pickups at the music store. I’ve always wanted to listen to Ice T’s band, Body Count, and after one listen I’m neutral on if I like them or don’t care for them. I do like a couple of songs, but other songs just don’t interest me.

 

I also picked up this 12” that the owner threw in for free because I bought so much music. The big thing in high school was playing the sax sample on this album on our saxophones. It wasn't that hard but it was cool to know we could do it.

 

Earlier in the week I hit a thrift store while getting some lunch and I left with these albums

 

Technotronic reminds me of lunch time, and going to road games in high school. My band followed the football team, and I think  we were the only band in the area that did this.

Remember what I said about Hilary Duff earlier? Add Limp Bizkit to that.

 

And the final music purchase of the week comes from Target when I went in for mouth wash, left an album, and a couple of games...and forgot the mouth wash.

 

I finally own a copy of Metallica’s sell-titled album. I had a taped copy of this album in high school, and nothing gets you going for school like the beginning of Enter Sandman

 

Nobody does it better than Virginia Tech!

Well there you have it good people of Pixlbit. Sorry this is shorter than normal but I’m supposed to be picking up lunch for family members visiting today, which means there’s going to be a stop at Toys R Us first. Let’s see if I find anything cool. Have a good weekend!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris