The Bargain Life

In the past 2 months I’ve bought a total of 6 records, the 4 pictured and 2 pre-orders that haven’t come yet.

the collection right now:

Set Your Goals – Mutiny! LP – brown
Four Year Strong – Rise Or Die Trying LP – purple/yellow
Fireworks – Adventure, Nostalgia, and Robbery 7″ – yellow/green
The Wonder Years – Won’t Be Pathetic Forever 7″ – black

pre-orders:
Set Your Goals – Reset 7″ – mint green
The Wonder Years/All Or Nothing – Distances 7″ – white w/ red and blue splatter

I don’t know if this is a worthwhile collection or if I’m just wasting my money. I stopped buying band t-shirts over a year ago because I have so many t-shirts and the $15 band tees weren’t getting worn any more than all my 50-cent thrift store tees, so buying them was clearly a waste. I don’t have shirts for any of the bands I own vinyls of because I’ve only gotten into most of them in the past year, and I wanted to support them by buying something. I’m also really into album art, so it’s cool having it full size. So far, so good. But here’s the catch…i don’t own a record player. So I’ve bought 6 records and I don’t have anything to play them on. Now that seems like a waste.

every issue of The Atlantic Monthly since 1995 online: free
caviar-fueled discussions about the social and intellectual impact of Google: priceless
all kidding of intellectual snobbery aside, The Atlantic has some really interesting articles about issues that the mainstream media isn’t always talking about.  and it’s free!

if you’re looking for something less nerdy, and probably a lot less legal, i just found out about the website mygazines.com, which houses user-uploaded scans of loads of magazines.