Get More Music, For Less

I've recently become an iTunes connoisseur of cheap music compilations, and I would like to share them with you. If you use iTunes, you can search for these titles. If you know of any not listed here, I would appreciate you sharing them with me. In my experience, the good music on these albums are well worth the price you pay for the rest (which may or may not be your cup of tea, and any way you'll learn something new). I think of it as money I would put in a jukebox to hear a song once, except you get to keep it. Enjoy.

1. Indoor Picnic Music volumes 1 (16 songs) and 2 (17 songs): $3.99 each
Highlights include...
Volume 1:
Josh Krouse - It Looks Like Love
Jars of Clay - Dead Man Carry Me
Griffin House - The Guy That Says Goodbye To You
Volume 2:
Erin McKeown - Sing You Sinners
maybe others? (no stand outs, but altogether solid)

2. Penny Candy (15 songs) $3.99
The Weepies - World Spins Madly On
[Two repeats from Indoor Picnic Music, rest solid]

3. Credential Recordings Sampler, 10 songs, $0.99
Edison Glass, Future of Forestry, Turn Off the Stars, Dizmas, Lost Ocean

4. Catch Up With... Domino Recording Co., 15 songs, $3.99
Psapp - Hi
Caribou - Dundas, Ontario

5. ReDirection: A Polyvinyl Sampler, 19 songs $5.94
Rainer Maria, Matt Pond PA, Hey Mercedes, AM/FM, Braid, Pele

6. Mile: A Hush Compilation, 50 songs (yes! 50!), $9.99
The Decemberists, Jeff London, Graves, Blanket Music, & lots others

And some people seem to like...
7. Attic Jam, 19 songs, $9.99
The Kooks, Death Cab, Pete Townshend, The Flaming Lips, Rachel Fuller, Martha Wainwright

8. This is What Music Should Sound Like, 12 songs, $5.99
Really? Says who?

But I say NO DEAL.

Weird enough to shell out 10 bucks?
9. The Unaccompanied Voice: An A Capella Compilation, 24 songs, $9.99
Jandek, Modest Mouse, Nikki McClure (really?), Pedro the Lion, Songs: Ohia
Given my background, I should totally be digging this. But, I dunno.

Wantsssss it. But, esssspensive.
10. Old Enough To Know Better (15 years of Merge Records), 61 songs, $35.99
Magnetic Fields, Richard Buckner, Spoon, Camera Obscura, ...And You Will Know Us By the Train of Our Dead, The Buzzocks, Polvo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Crooked Fingers, The Essex Green

Last but not least,
10. FREE on iTunes
Check the front page regularly for three free song downloads a week. Can't argue for the price.

Yours in music downloading,
Mary