Went shopping today. As it was a tuesday, it meant that the shops were less packed than normal. There was lots of stuff in the bargain bins at the various music retailers (HMV, Sanity, DS Powerhouse, JB Hi-Fi). Most of it was bad. Like really bad. We’re talking obscure australian mid 90′s indie, and bad country (nb. all country music is bad). There was a lot less Tom Jones than in previous sales, and I didn’t have any great finds.

I did have a good find in getting the Norah Jones Live 2004 DVD for $13 @ HMV. I haven’t got any of her stuff before mainly due to the “CDs” having copy protection (which makes them unplayable on my system, though they do work on my ancient target discman). I haven’t watched it yet, so I’ll give my review in a future post. Obviously I’ll make a “backup copy” of the audio to both Ogg Vorbis on my computer and an Audio CD. Purely to allow me to listen to it while travelling or playing/working on my computer (as having OpenOffice.org, gimp and gxine (for to play dvds) would tax my little old box too much).

I also got Corrosion of Conformity – Wiseblood for $15 at JB HiFi. CoC are an awesome band who started life as a hardcore punk band, but after some personnel chages drifted to a more stoner/southern blues metal sound. I first heard them when they supported Pantera on their 2001 oz tour, at which point I went and bought “Americas Volume Dealer” – the album they had just released at the time. Wiseblood is an earlier work, and has a less polished sound than AVD, which I think suits them much better, and is closer to their live sound. Awesome riffs, lead breaks – guitar and bass, great vocals, and a good smattering of styles from hardcore to blues via metal and funk though all are tinged with their “southern” style.

Over the weekend I also managed to find an “offsite backup” (i.e. torrent feed) of Sam n Max: Hit the Road to replace my currently misplaced original CD. This is an awesome game and since I started playing through all my old point and click adventures this is the one I’ve been waiting for. Good story, fun puzzles, and scarily adult humor that I don’t think I got all of when I played it in my youth. I also got ScummVM working on my plam pilot, so I can play all the LucasArts adventures while travelling.