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Thanks for the video. (Alongside the rest of the comments here with links).

As someone who played Jazz for a Youth Ensemble at UofH while still in High School but never progressed once I left HS, I've been sort of at a loss finding some of the newer artists worth exploring. What.CD helped a lot in this respect while it was up, and I ended up buying a lot of Robert Glasper and Kamasai Washington after discovering who Flying Lotus was sampling and liking.

Got some tickets to see them Snarky in Seattle, gonna be a blast. Now I've got some a new Spotify Playlist for the next few months!

Thanks for the link.

Two half-written, heavily researched novels of mine concur. One can never predict how 'busy' one is in the future, nor judge the desire to return to previous work.

Perhaps late nights awake during upcoming Christmas vacation will reawaken the feverish beast. More than likely it will not.

This is the most bizarre comment that might actually make me go visit a place. Sounds like a different world!

Sent this to my father. A long booster of Adams' works, this'll delight him.

I've been using the Store at VinylMePlease every few months to discover new bands. I'll put their albums on a Spotify list and remove those that really don't jive.

Some of those hurt the records, so some of the more expensive turntables seem to forgo them recently.

Growing up, I would revel in all of my father's records. During the summer I'd clean up the floor of his closet where he stored them all. I'd gaze in wonder at the bands that he never deemed worthy enough to buy the CD for.

Much like you, I remember listening to Blood on the Tracks on Saturday mornings playing GameBoy or reading The Hobbit. We'd have Asleep at the Wheel playing during a card-game, or overlaying bad sports commentary.

Fast Forward to High School. I was hired as a retail salesperson at a Mom-And-Pop hot-topic like store at the local mall. Given my somewhat decent taste in music, the shopkeeper let me determine music choice.

So now, as I've had Groove/Zune/Spotify subscriptions going on (basically continuously) for nearly 12 years, I still try to buy at least 15 or so LPs a year. That used to be CDs, but now that I'm an adult with some space, I carved out a section for Vinyl records. They weren't purchased for the different 'warmth', no, they were purchased because I love music and vinyl is one of the purest expressions of that love. It's cumbersome and pretty stupid, but it places the art with prominence and connects your body and actions to the music moreso than any other medium (purely since you have to flip sides every fifteen minutes or so). I like to think back to my saturday's playing GameBoy, and now I gulp down coffee while reading Gaddis or Foreign Affairs as Bob Wills blasts throughthe speakers

Whoops: http://www.epi.org/publication/the-high-road-seattle-labor-m...

Now most will latch onto the study (and their priors) and politicians will abandon any attempt to raise Minimum wage citing this and round and round we go...