Maybe I need to clarify for those unrefined neanderthals out there who can't see why libraries rock so much: because, while their CD collections generally suck, I have very idiosyncratic musical tastes, which means that I can find all kinds of things that normal people wouldn't be interested in but just make ME oogie all over myself, to be perfectly frank. Then I check these things out on my thrice-weekly trips to the Y (which is right across from the library) and burn them to my computer. VOILA! Free fucking CD. Rock on. 
That on top of the wide selection of more reading material than I could reasonably hope to get through in a year.
I've recently acquired from that source such luminaries as:
-Chango Malo's Alas Poor Lucy (By the by, if anyone in Tucson hasn't heard of/seen them, go do it. One of their members works with me, and both he and his band rock in a deeply geological manner. These guys aren't just rockin', they're like... whole stratigraphic LAYERS of igneous sediment. I kid you not.)
-Leo Kottke Live (Have yet to listen to this, but I'm told it's good, and hell... it's free.)
-The Producers soundtrack (I don't care if you don't like musicals; you just CAN'T hate any musical made by Mel Brooks that incorporates such songs as "Springtime for Hitler.")
-R.E.M. Around the Sun Not been a large consumer of R.E.M.'s media in the past, but have recently encountered them and discovered that, the piteously overplayed "Losing My Religion" aside, they also rock pretty damn well.
And these are just the highlights! I say unto thee again: How canst thou not absolutely fucking love the library?
That on top of the wide selection of more reading material than I could reasonably hope to get through in a year.
I've recently acquired from that source such luminaries as:
-Chango Malo's Alas Poor Lucy (By the by, if anyone in Tucson hasn't heard of/seen them, go do it. One of their members works with me, and both he and his band rock in a deeply geological manner. These guys aren't just rockin', they're like... whole stratigraphic LAYERS of igneous sediment. I kid you not.)
-Leo Kottke Live (Have yet to listen to this, but I'm told it's good, and hell... it's free.)
-The Producers soundtrack (I don't care if you don't like musicals; you just CAN'T hate any musical made by Mel Brooks that incorporates such songs as "Springtime for Hitler.")
-R.E.M. Around the Sun Not been a large consumer of R.E.M.'s media in the past, but have recently encountered them and discovered that, the piteously overplayed "Losing My Religion" aside, they also rock pretty damn well.
And these are just the highlights! I say unto thee again: How canst thou not absolutely fucking love the library?
[Edited on Apr 09, 2005 2:45AM]