What music have you been buying lately?


I went through another one of those LP buying spurts recently. Yeah, I even bought a few CDs. As I look at the pile it's a pretty ecclectic collection.
I bought a couple of Van Morrison CDs, "Back on Top," and "Best of." I also got the Nora Jones CD, and The Traveling Wilbury's.
I bought a new copy of Muddy Water's 'Folk Singer.' and a Byrd's Lp, A Jethro Tull Lp I already had and some new Dylan.
On the classical side I bought Mozart's 'Requiem,' and a copy of Carl Orff's 'Carmina Burana.'
I also picked up a copy of John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme."
So what have you been buying as I was going through this session of unrestrained abandon???
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I just bought a CD by Kenso, a Japanese progressive rock band. Really enjoyable music, but just a terrible recording.

Soulive - Next. Energetic Acid Jazz.

Martin Taylor - Solo. Incredible acoustic guitar work.

The Datsun - The Datsuns. Undoubtedly overhyped, but much better IMO than most of the overhyped stuff. Pretty straightforward rock, but it does rock

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia. Progressive rock. Decent recording, nice guitar work.
I've been overworked and in need of severely distracting and engaging material (soothing material some other time), so I've been buying: thrash metal, electronic experimental, hip-hop/funk, japanese 70's blues/sabbath worship, french fusion/RIO, finnish casiotone hard trance:

Exumer: Possessed by Fire, Rising from the Sea (Teutonic Terrors re-releases)
Bruce Haack: Electric Lucifer vol. 2
The Lord Wierd Slough Feg: S/T
Herbie Hancock: Perfect Machine
Aavikko: Multi Muysic
Blues Creation: Demon and Eleven Children
Magma: Kobaia

Some of it sounds great on a nice system, some of it sounds, well, awful. But ALL of it has taken my mind way off work.

Music isn't just about fidelity - that was only a recent invention.
System of a Down: Toxicity - Very entertaining (not enough of the MTV satan repenting type sound, however).
The White Stripes: White Blood Cells - Again, not enought of that tasty MTV mojo.
Boulez Conducts Bartok (Sony SACD) - Hoochie Mama!
The 'Stones SACD remakes - Need you ask?
Elena Papandreou (Naxos) - Her Disc is O.K. (classical guitar); Her live performance is from another planet...
Wishbone Ash: Wishbone Ash - Doesn't sound the same without the fine colombian...
Here's what I have purchased in the last 30 days:

1) Audioslave
2) Little Feat / Waiting for Columbus remaster
3) Elvis Costello / My Aim Is True remaster
4) Peter Gabriel / Security remaster
5) David Gray /A New Day At Midnight
6) Eric Dolphy / Outward Bound
7) Charles Lloyd / Voices in the Night
8) Allan Holdsworth / Road Games
9) Bill Evans / At the Montreux Jazz Festival