 | Water Curses by Animal Collective
Buy used from: $4.15 nice warm-up for the just-released merriweather post pavilion
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 | Warpaint by The Black Crowes
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.90 that i saw this on NOT ONE best-of-08 list is a fact that i will use in my defense after i finally snap. best since amorica
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 | Blitzen Trapper by Blitzen Trapper
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.88 FURR! this is their first album. their latest and best, furr, came out in 2008. for some reason, i can't add it to this list. makes sense, given that blitzen trapper may be the most underappreciated band in america
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 | For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $9.00 actually a 2007 release, but most critics chose to ignore that fact, so i will too
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 | Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.75 |
 | In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $7.00 i'm at best a tepid new order fan, but i would probably like them more if they sounded more like cut copy
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 | Deerhunter by Deerhunter
Buy used from: $129.99 now this is beginning to p*ss me off. yet again, this should be microcastle, their 2008 release, but it is not available for me to add. i can only assume that this is due to labor cutbacks. stupid recession.
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 | Live the Storm by Disfear
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $6.71 pummeling in the best way
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 | Visiter by The Dodos
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $7.77 |
 | Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.38 WTF?!? again, this is supposed to be tell-tale signs, the latest in the dylan bootleg series, but i'm not able add it to the list. stupid. however, highway 61 revisited is pretty much the best album of EVERY year, so i'm still happy to have it on my list.
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 | The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow
Buy used from: $14.99 being the second-best working band in britain is still pretty good
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 | Sun Giant EP by Fleet Foxes
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.51 unlike vampire weekend, these guys actually warranted the breathless hype. also don't miss their near-simultaneously released self-titled debut lp
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 | Street Horrrsing by Fuck Buttons
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $11.78 |
 | Legend of the Liquid Sword by Gza/Genius
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.00 (sigh) pro tools is the album that i'm trying to put on here but can't
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 | Hercules and Love Affair by Hercules and Love Affair
Buy used from: $7.87 there is no other track here that equals the delirious "blind," but then again how could there be?
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 | Live At Fingerprints by The Hold Steady
Buy used from: $27.99 AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHH! ok, their 2008 release was called stay positive--it was good and i can't put it on here blah blah. "slapped actress" may be their best song
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 | Saturdays=Youth by M83
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.49 like finger-banging molly ringwald (ca. 1985) in the back of your dad's station wagon
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 | Real Emotional Trash by Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.21 sm's best effort in over a decade, completely ignored. what up, hipsters? were you d-bags just buying pavement albums for those nifty spiral stairs songs?
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 | Nouns (W/Book) (Dig) by No Age
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.76 deceptively simple, gets better with each passing month
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 | The Stage Names by Okkervil River
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.96 goddammit. ok, this one is a stand in for, uh, the stand-ins, a worthy companion piece to the equally excellent the stage names
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 | Aldhils Arboretum by Of Montreal
Buy used from: $4.45 seriously? whatever. their latest is skeletal lamping--barnes is bordering on self-parody at this point, but still worthwhile if you think pollock-esque splatter is the high-water mark of creativity
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 | Brighten the Corners by Pavement
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.15 the new nicene creedence edition is just as essential as every other bit pavement ever recorded
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 | Third by Portishead
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.00 |
 | Kamaal / The Abstract (The unreleased album) by Q-Tip
the renaissance. some lackey at amazon is going to get an angry email after i'm done here
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 | Consolers Of The Lonely
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.68 |
 | Live At Amoeba Music by TV on the Radio
Buy used from: $1.84 sweet f-ing christ! new album is called dear science
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 | Rat by Walkmen
Buy used from: $20.00 you and me, 2008, buy it
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 | Come Feel Me Tremble by Paul Westerberg
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $1.94 his latest, 49:00, was an amazon exclusive, so naturally i can't add it to my list. son of a b*tch!
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