So here on the day before Christmas, and while I have no more shopping yet to get done, I find myself buying gifts for me. That’s because Amazon is having a great day-before-Christmas sale, with some very desirable MP3 albums for $1.99 or less. (Not that it has to be all for me; if I hadn’t spent close to $20 on Taylor Swift’s latest for my daughter for her birthday, I’d be buying it now for $1.99.) So for 99 cents apiece, I’m grabbing up greatest hits-y compilations from Abba and The Carpenters, and Motown (really, that comes to less than 4 cents a track for prime Motown), and I’d be paying about twice that for Hall & Oats, Johnny Cash, and Simon & Garfunkel if I didn’t already have basically everything on those albums. I’m not that into raggae, but 99 cents for two disks worth of Bob Marley may be worth it anyway! (“Hey, what songs does this have?” “No Woman, No Cry.” “I don’t want to know what songs it doesn’t have! I’m sure I can pick up Woman and Cry somewhere else if I really like his stuff.”) There are greatest hits from Kenny Chesney. But if I don’t want to sound like an old, old man, I should buy one of the newer albums they have… the latest from Imagine Dragons, Carly Rae Jepsen, No Doubt, Rihanna, Ellie Goulding, Lana Del Ray, Norah Jones, Blake Shelton, Ne-Yo, and Meek Mill.
Here’s the page with all the albums on this sale.
