Compact Disc Reclamation Project
OK, so long story, but on August 10, 2001, I lost all my CDs (except one, Weird Tales by Golden Smog, which was in my cd player at the time). So my project is to get back all 208 CDs, or at least as many as is possible. Including the crappy ones I bought back in junior high. So I'll keep a record here of what I've bought to restore the collection, as well as a tally of how much I've spent. The collection as it stood was worth over $3100, estimating a very conservative $15 per CD. I don't plan to spend nearly that much restoring it (I certainly didn't spend that much collecting it in the first place). Anyways, we'll see how it turns out.
CURRENT STATISTICS (updated 08.18.04):
Pre-catastrophe total: 208
Current total reclaimed: 121
thus: 58.17%
Total reclamation expenditures: $544.91
Average cost per album: $4.50
7.15.2004
$5.00 - Radiohead | Amnesiac
Seattle, WA
2.21.2004
$8.00 - Liz Phair | Exile in Guyville
CD/Game Exchange, WDC
11.??.2003
$16.50 - Iris Dement | My Life
Melody Records, WDC
4.28.2003
$7.95 - Uncle Tupelo | March 16-20, 1992
Amoeba Records, SF, CA
3.8.2003
$2.79 - Buena Vista Social Club | s/t
BMG Music Service
3.5.2003
$2.79 - Marvin Gaye | What's Going On
$2.79 - Van Morrison | Moondance
$2.79 - AC/DC | Back In Black
BMG Music Service
12.28.2002
$2.50 - North Mississippi All-Stars | Shake Hands With Shorty
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
10.27.2002
$2.50 - Suzanne Vega | Solitude Standing
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
10.8.2002
$2.79 - Wilco | Being There
$2.79 - Beck | Mutations
BMG Music Service
9.29.2002
$5.00 - KLF | The White Room
$2.50 - Heavens to Betsy | Calculated
$2.50 - Jimmy Buffet | Songs You Know By Heart
$2.50 - Jimmy Buffet | Fruitcakes
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
7.6.2002
$2.50 - Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
6.23.2002
$2.50 - Eric Clapton | From The Cradle
$2.50 - Rusted Root | When I Woke
$2.50 - Paul Simon | Negotiations and Love Songs
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
6.6.2002
$2.79 - Radiohead | OK Computer
$2.79 - Beach Boys | Pet Sounds
$2.79 - Outkast | Stankonia
$2.79 - Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde
BMG Music Service
5.26.2002
$2.50 - Various Artists | Pulp Fiction Soundtrack
$2.50 - Various Artists | Philadelphia Soundtrack
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
5.18.2002
$8.00 - U2 | Achtung Baby
CD/Game Exchange, Adams-Morgan, Washington, DC
5.9.2002
$2.79 - Nanci Griffith | The MCA Years: A Retrospective
$2.79 - Fiona Apple | When the Pawn . . .
$2.79 - Lauren Hill | The Miseducation of Lauren Hill
$2.79 - Miles Davis | Kind of Blue
$2.79 - Sex Pistols | Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
$2.79 - Iris Dement | The Way I Should
BMG Music Service
4.22.2002
$20.77 - Radiohead | Kid A
$20.77 - Frank Zappa | Strictly Commercial: The Best of Frank Zappa
$20.77 - John Coltrane | Giant Steps
BMG Music Service
4.10.2002
$2.79 - Gram Parsons | GP/Grievous Angel
BMG Music Service
3.30.2002
$6.00 - Blur | 13
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
1.30.2002
$2.79 - Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
$2.79 - Captain Beefheart | Trout Mask Replica
$2.79 - Kelly Willis | What I Deserve
$2.79 - Son Volt | Straightaways
$2.79 - Aretha Franklin | I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
$2.79 - PJ Harvey | To Bring You My Love
$2.79 - Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation
$2.79 - Ramones | All The Stuff (And More) Vol. I
BMG Music Service
12.10.2001
$2.55 - Bjork | Post
$2.55 - Mercury Rev | Deserter's Songs
$2.55 - Modest Mouse | The Moon and Antarctica
$2.55 - Dusty Springfield | Dusty In Memphis
$2.55 - Billy Bragg and Wilco | Mermaid Avenue Vol. II
$33.89 - Merle Haggard | Down Every Road (4-disc box set)
BMG Music Service
12.02.2001
$5.00 - Supersuckers | Must've Been High
$1.00 - Frank Sinatra | Songs For Swingin' Lovers
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
12.01.2001
$20.80 - Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um
$2.74 - Grandaddy | The Sophtware Slump
$2.63 - John Denver | Rocky Mountain Christmas
BMG Music Service
11.26.2001
$20.70 - Boston | Boston
$2.84 - Big Star | #1 Record/Radio City
$2.63 - Cibo Matto | Viva! La Woman
BMG Music Service
11.23.2001
$5.00 - Beck | Odelay
$5.00 - Counting Crows | August and Everything After
$2.50 - Northern Exposure | Music from the Television Series
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
11.10.2001
$7.50 - Jeff Buckley | Grace
$7.00 - Sleater-Kinney | Dig Me Out
$6.00 - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Acme
$5.00 - Peter Gabriel | Us
@Amoeba Records, San Francisco, CA
11.09.2001
$8.00 - Uncle Tupelo | Anodyne
@Rasputin Records, Berkeley, CA
10.27.2001
$6.00 - Los Lobos | Kiko
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
10.26.2001
$2.63 - Radiohead | The Bends
BMG Music Service
10.21.2001
$10.00 - Wilco | Summerteeth
$6.00 - R.E.M. | Up
$2.50 - R.E.M. | Automatic For The People
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
10.16.2001
$2.63 - R.E.M. | Murmur
BMG Music Service
10.15.2001
$2.63 - Big Star | Third/Sister Lovers
BMG Music Service
10.13.2001
$10.00 - R.E.M. | Reveal
$2.50 - Belly | King
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
10.07.2001
$1.00 - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars
$1.00 - Garth Brooks | Fresh Horses
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
10.05.2001
$2.84 - Wilco | A.M.
$2.74 - Lyle Lovett | Pontiac
$2.63 - Beth Orton | Central Reservation
$2.63 - Flaming Lips | The Soft Bulletin
$2.63 - Van Morrison | Astral Weeks
$2.63 - Billy Bragg and Wilco | Mermaid Avenue
$2.63 - Bjork | Homogenic
BMG Music Service
09.29.2001
$5.00 - Nirvana | In Utero
$2.50 - Tom Petty | Wildflowers
$2.50 - Heavy D | Peaceful Journey
$2.50 - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince | Homebase
$2.50 - Pearl Jam | Vitalogy
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
09.23.2001
$6.00 - Michelle Shocked | Arkansas Traveler
$10.00 - Smashing Pumpkins | Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
09.16.2001
$9.51 - Sleater-Kinney | All Hands On the Bad One
@Flying Saucer Discs, Washington, DC
09.15.2001
$5.00 - R.E.M. | Green
$5.00 - Cornershop | When I Was Born for the 7th Time
$5.00 - Liz Phair | Whip-Smart
$2.50 - Various Artists | Red Hot + Blue
$2.50 - Sugar | File Under: Easy Listening
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
08.25.2001
$5.00 - Grant Lee Buffalo | Mighty Joe Moon
$5.00 - Sinead O'Connor | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
$5.00 - R.E.M. | Out Of Time
$2.50 - Spin Doctors | Pocket Full of Kryptonite
$2.50 - Neil Young | Sleeps With Angels
$1.00 - Get Shorty | Soundtrack
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
08.18.2001
$2.50 - Blur | Parklife
$2.50 - Pearl Jam | Ten
$2.50 - U2 | Zooropa
$2.50 - Alan Jackson | Who I Am
$2.50 - R.E.M. | New Adventures In Hi-Fi
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
08.12.2001
$2.50 - Pearl Jam | Vs.
$2.50 - Soundgarden | Superunknown
$2.50 - Jesus Jones | Doubt
$2.50 - R.E.M. | Monster
$2.50 - Belly | Star
$1.00 - Color Me Badd | CMB
$1.00 - Arrested Development | 3 Years . . .
@CD/Game Exchange, Washington, DC
on hand after catastrophe
Golden Smog | Weird Tales