I have been wrongfully unfair to Linkin Park. I have accused them of making a crappy album without listening to more than 2 songs. Maybe I’ll give it a listen and see what I really think. I’m not saying my opinion will change, but at least I’ll have the ‘i heard it, it sucks’ comeback line.

I’ve been buying lots of CD’s lately. I guess it’s, in a way, to make up for the MP3’s I have. I bought Thick Records’ OIL compilation. Has some pretty good songs by Rise Against, Armor for Sleep, the Reputation and the Akaline Trio, among others. I bought Victory Style 5. It has an unreleased song by Taking Back Sunday, some Thursday, Catch 22, and others.. a wide range of musical styles. It’s neat. I bought the Detachment Kit cd. It’s .. interesting. I didn’t like it at first as much as I do now. It just took 2-3 times though it to like it this much. I bought Too Young To Die, an emo compilation about suicide. It’s pretty mellow, but thats good sometimes. I like the songs by Brandston alot on there. So, that was in the past week or so. There was a time when I bought that many CD’s in a 4 month period. I guess its different when you buy the oddball comps and bands that aren’t well known who sell their CD’s for $3-8 each, instead of the usual $12-15.

I also stumbled upon the new Fall Out Boy CD. It rocks more than the 6-song sampler I already had. And a new CD by Moneen. They sound very (almost too) similar to the Movielife. It confused me today. I thought I was listening to a new song by the Movielife, but then noticed it was Moneen. Weird.

Darren bought a Waking Up Falling CD. It’s indie/emo/mellow band that is real good, as well.

Being overwhelmed with new music is never a bad thing. Once I start to get bored (rrrrrright) with this stuff over and over, the new NOFX and Less Than Jake should be out. Woo.

Almost hit 500 users on listen-to. That’s pretty neat, considering that I really haven’t told that many people about Listen-To, besides some friends, the people at work, and 2 message boards. I’m averaging about 7 new users a day, and most of them say they found it by “someones AIM profile” or “a forum signature” or “friends webpage”. Another similar site (winampdb.com) has gone offline recently. I haven’t seen much traffic (that I know of) from them, but I’m still curious as to why they went offline. Hopefully listen-to will never get to that point.

I took a 2 hour nap today already. I think I may just go back to sleep now. For some reason it feels like Friday. I don’t know why, but it does. It’s not like it would make that much of a difference though…

So — wireless headphones on .. queue up Linkin Park and Evanesence (curious, as well, about the hype) — time to go fall asleep to loud music.