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A friend of mine recently came to visit and bestowed upon me 50 bucks of itunes gift cards (he assured me that he didn't actually pay for these but "works in marketing").Now, save for the occasional, late night "Ineedtohearthissongrightnow!" binges, I don't use itunes very often, because I still like CDs and records. But this was a great oppurtunity to listen to some stuff I wasn't planning on buying with real money. Here's what I got:
Whoops I just ordered the album, acapella and video of Jay-Z's "99 Problems" in one computer-lurch fingersplat. 
46 bones left.
Ordered a couple more Lil Wayne tracks, my favorit being "A Milli" a bare bones, psychedelic block banger that recalls the untouchable "Grindin"
Finally downloaded the Low Motion Disco album, a chill-out disc made by presumably impeccable Swiss dude (I think they really are Swiss). It's a nice late-nite spin, particularly the stellar "At Last I'm Low" a aqueous remix of the stellar Robert Wyatt Chic cover "At Last I'm Free."
The Quiet Village album is a strange one. Supposedly an exotica mix, as far as I can tell it's a straight-up comp of out-there, corn-ball and trippy tracks from the 70s including a track off Sakamoto's delirous Disco-tropical-vocoder lounge album Summer Nerves (which features the best album cover of all time)
and now the great Summer Nerves
The big disappointment was the Flying Lotus album. The new hot thing, by some young hot dude in LA in a genre ludicrously named "Ganja Step" I was hoping for some space-age samples and weapons grade bass, instead Flying Lotus sounds like he would be right at home opening for DJ Krush in 1997. Oh well, that's what free itunes cash is for.
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