Pre-College: Mass Song

I think, before I go to college, I want to buy a CD that I don’t already own from each artist that I listen to often.  That’s not a large list for me.  I’m not very varied when it comes to music in that I can list maybe 10 favorite artists; at the same time, however, I kind of am varied, in that the artists span several genres, from country to nerd-core hip-hop.  The list, for posterity:

Weird Al (n/a)
Shaimus (n/a)
Eels
Weezer
Luke Ski
Brobdingnagian Bards
Voltaire
Jonathan Coulton (eh…)
Mindless Self Indulgence
mc chris
Lyle Lovett
Dr. Steel

That’ s actually it, right there.  Mostly.  I mean, not all of the 1,255 songs in my iTunes library are from those artists, but those are the twelve I call my favorites.  They’re in no order, and I’ve denoted the ones that I can’t actually buy a CD for, since I own all of the non-compilations already.  As for Jonathan Coulton: I have a whole bunch of his songs spread across all of his albums and such, but own not a single album in its entirety.  I might just buy all of his songs.  Or a few whole things of his.  Something.

I just thought of doing this, right after listening to some Voltaire and remembering my Voltaire phase last year, where I just pretty much listened to his songs all the time.  I have phases like these for pretty much all of the artists up there, but I’m beginning to jump around a whole lot now, not having anyone significantly new and favoritable to obsess over.

I just think it would be a good idea for me to have a whole slew of new, fresh things to listen to when I get out there.  I might even get some CDs from some other artists.  Time to save more money.