 | Hail to the Thief by Radiohead
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.26 Cool music. Good for chilling, studying, and perhaps one of their best albums.
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 | The Little Prince
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $4.05 It's amazing just how philosophical this book is. Great message and characters. It will make you want to draw sheep or find a rose to call your own.
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 | The Princess Bride (Special Edition)
Buy used from: $2.05 I think just about every college student has seen this and can quote from it. Don't be in the minority.
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 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Special Edition)
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.75 See what I had to say for The Princess Bride.
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 | Mla Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Joseph Gibaldi
Buy new: $14.88 / Used from: $0.01 A very handy resource tool.
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 | Rockin' the Suburbs by Ben Folds
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.99 It seemed to me every girl on my hall freshmen year had this CD or had seen him in a concert recently. Something about piano-based rock and college kids, I guess.
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 | The Communist Manifesto (Signet Classics) by Karl Marx
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $0.01 You WILL have to read this book at least once during college. Try to find it cheap while you still can.
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 | Friends - The Complete First Seven Seasons (7-Pack)
Buy used from: $83.87 Come next fall they won't be there for you when the rain starts to call, but at least all the DVDs will.
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 | Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $6.46 Great conversation starter, and what can I say? I love this series.
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 | 25 Classical Favorites
Buy new: $4.98 / Used from: $3.45 Great for sleeping, studying, relaxing.... also, by this point you should know some of the classics....
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 | Abbey Road (1990) by The Beatles
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $4.29 ....and then embrace a new classic album.
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 | Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: Thumb Indexed
Buy new: $165.00 / Used from: $49.95 Get a good dictionary while you're at it. (Oxford English is one of the best, but any good dictionary will do.)
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 | National Lampoon's Animal House (Widescreen Double Secret Probation Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $1.98 A classic college movie, and one of the funniest movies involving cucumbers and Paradise Lost I've ever seen.
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 | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $4.34 While you're at it, read the book Donald Sutherland is talking about in Animal House? And just like C.M., at some point you'll have to read this one, too.
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 | The Best of Morrissey by Morrissey
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $3.95 He's miserable, but his music is great.
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 | Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $0.75 He is hilarious. Great for when you have those moments off, since each chapter is an essay. Also, his section on teaching class is great.
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 | The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark/ Temple of Doom/ Last Crusade) - Widescreen Edition
Buy used from: $18.78 Indy's the man. 'nuf said.
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 | The Essential Johnny Cash by Johnny Cash
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.49 Johnny's the man (in black), too.
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 | Elephant by The White Stripes
Buy used from: $1.06 It's really great songs, and I love how they're so minimal with their instruments and such. And with the limited color scheme, they're just so cool!
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 | Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 You'll have to read this book at some point, too.
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 | Saturday Night Live - The Best of Will Ferrell
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.41 I gotta have more cow bell.
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 | The Best of 1980-1990 by U2
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.99 U2 is incredible, and their old stuff is amazing. Sunday Bloody Sunday and Everlasting Love stand out in my mind right off the bat, but every song on this is great.
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 | Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Buy used from: $2.89 Ferris is just so cool, as is this movie.
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 | E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (2-Disc Widescreen Limited Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $6.63 It's just such a feel-good movie! Great for when you don't feel good, or are blue, and just want to sit back and watch a great, great movie.
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 | Prolonging the Magic by Cake
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $5.80 All their albums are great, but this one is the best. They're just so cool and the music is very relaxing yet awesome all at the same time.
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