For the month of August, Amazon has super sized their normal $5 albums selection from 100 to 1000 (or so they say, once you go browsing the selection is actually over 1200).
If you don’t already have a solid selection of Ace of Base songs in your music library, you must pick up Ace of Base’s Greatest Hits. At #BlogHer10, @happysquid and I were going to do a karaoke performance of The Sign together but unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, too many other people also wanted to do karaoke and we didn’t get our turn. I seriously considered posting a recording of myself singing the song but remember when I told you about how I hate the sound of my own voice: well my recorded singing voice is painfully worse than my talking voice so you can just count yourselves lucky that there was no karaoke performance in the first place. I sound so good in my head though.
Other albums in this month’s selection that I think are must haves include:
- 311′s Greatest Hits
- Goo Goo Doll’s Dizzy Up the Girl
- Incubus’s Make Yourself
- Red Hot Chili Peppers’s What Hits?
- The Dandy Warhols’s Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
- Everclear’s Sparkle and Fade
Can you tell that I’m kind of still stuck in the 90s? I have a theory that whatever bands are popular while you’re in high school are the ones you will always consider classic.
But here are a few post high school bands that I love:
- Boys Like Girls’s Love Drunk
- Cartel’s Cycles
- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’s Don’t You Fake It
- All Time Low’s Put Up or Shut Up
There’s also a great selection of Disney music which my friend specifically requested I include on the playlist I created for our last roadtrip.
Good thing I already bought most of this music one album at a time, pre greatest hits collections, and at full price over the course of the last decade or so. If I hadn’t, I’d be shelling out a lot of money on $5 albums this month.
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I’ve got my budget structured really basically. I have an overall total in mind for the month. I break out my truly fixed expenses like rent and insurance and everything else I leave in the category Mint appropriately titles “Everything Else”. It doesn’t really matter to me how much I spend on groceries, gas, my electric bill, entertainment, or shopping as long as the total among them all is under a certain dollar amount. And I can still click over to the budget tab and see how my spending actually breaks down in each additional category.
My budget is set to allow me to spend about 75% of my regular after tax income but since I’m currently on disability leave, I don’t have as much income as I used to so I just try to keep my Net Income (income minus expenses) in the green (which has sort of been working since I went on disability in January — oh how I can’t wait to get back to work and more importantly get paychecks again!).
