DILEMMA

I came into today with 4 CDs on my high priority list - Josh Rouse's Subtitulo; Loose Fur's Born Again in the U.S.A.; the debut from Band of Horses; and the new Warren Zanes (the title of which escapes me at the moment). The first three were released today and the Zanes was last week, though I just learned about it a few days ago. I went out to Best Buy and Barnes & Noble looking for the new stuff and struck out except for finding a copy of Band of Horses at B&N for $15.99. Frankly, that's a bit more than I want to spend for an unknown entity even with positive reviews. So, no new music.

I do have another recourse - I still have all 40 downloads for my current eMusic month. Both the Rouse and the Zanes are available. My one sticking point is that I had planned on only picking up older albums from artists I've been buying on CD and continuing to buy their new releases in hardcopy. I've been buying Rouse's work new for many years and have Zanes' Memory Girls on disc. But I really want to hear the new stuff and I could get both albums for roughly $4.50. What to do, what to do...

Update: After talking with my wife last night, I realized that if I'm willing to go into someone's back catalogue digitally then I might as well grab new stuff that way when it's more convenient and/or cheaper. So, I grabbed Subtitulo and burned it to a disc and listened to it as I was falling asleep. Restarted it at breakfast this morning and I like it a lot. He's been making great little pop records for a while now and this is no exception. And now I've also grabbed People That I'm Wrong For, which is the new Warren Zanes.