Day 9

Ok it's been a full week since I fed any CDs to the lil ripper but there's good reason for that. I had to travel up to London for work, which is never a bad thing cos' it can mean only one thing - more CDs! I flew in over the weekend so I managed to spend most of Sunday visiting the usual haunts, although I did give Berwick St a miss this time round. My first stop was Rough Trade East. I must say that I love the vibe around the whole Spitalfields, Brick Lane, Old Truman Brewery area. It's always buzzing and full of surprises. I picked up a few goodies from the store before heading to my next stop which was HMV on Oxford St. This is one endless cavern of a store and you could easily spend half a day browsing thru their neverending selection of music and movies. And I was in luck cos the Spring sales were in so there were tons of super cheap stuff. I must confess that I felt giddy after thumbing thru the hundreds of CDs in the bargain section but it was worth it cos I hauled away quite a stash of goodies. My last stop was Fopp on Earlham St. By this stage, my little day pack was bursting at the seams so I went easy and just picked up a handful of CDs. At the end of my excursion, the tally was 24 albums and here they are:

From left to right (top row down): The Antlers - Hospice, Serena Maneesh - No.2: Abyss In B Minor, Primal Scream - Screamadelica (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), Glasvegas - Euphoric/Heartbreak, Joe Satriani - The Essential, Klaxons - Surfing The Void, The Posies - Blood/Candy, The Leisure Society - Into The Murky Water, The Fratelis - Here We Stand, Cut Copy - Zonoscope, The Black Keys - Attack & Release, Girls Names - Dead To Me

From left to right (top row down): Gene - John Peel Sessions 95 - 99, Chris Brown - Graffiti, Band Of Horses - Infinite Arms, The Books - The Way Out, Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere, Graham Coxon - The Spinning Top, Maps - Turning The Mind, Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage, Moby - Destroyed, The Von Bondies - Love Hate And Then There's You, The Futureheads - The Chaos, Gran Ronde - Secret Rooms.

So, instead of focusing on ripping my music, it looks like I've been adding to the CD library which just means that this entire uploading process is gonna take awhile longer? ...