How is it possible that December 1 has rolled around again? This year for our Advent Calendar, I’m taking my inspiration from our travels, sort of.
Until only about a year ago, we didn’t subscribe to any streaming music services (we have an Apple Music subscription now), so we’ve always bought music. Some of what we’ve purchased over the years has been digital, but we’ve also bought lots of CDs.
When we lived in San Jose, our apartment was an easy walk from a shopping plaza with a used CD store. Every few months, we’d take walk and stop to browse CDs on our way home. There was always some kind of great deal to be found: ten CDs for $20, gems in the $0.99 bin, never-been-opened CDs that were still marked as used, etc. We started keeping a shared list on our phones of music we thought we might like to have in our library, including specific albums, artists, soundtracks, and even genres, so it would be handy when we were shopping. Even after we moved to Wisconsin, we never stopped adding to the list.
This fall on our westward roadtrip, one of our stops in the Bay Area was the used CD store. It is, thank goodness, still open. We hadn’t been there in more than three years, and we’ve discovered lots of new music since our last visit, so the list on our phones was long. We bought about forty CDs - and since our car actually has a CD player, we listened to them on the drive home. There were a few duds, but honestly not as many as we might have feared!
So, this Advent, you get an album a day! It might be a CD from our most recent haul, another CD from our library, or a digital music purchase. I’ll include a digital listening option where I can, or you can always let us know what you might want to borrow from us (if it’s a CD). [Mom - you have Apple Music now, so if you click on the Apple Music link below, it should just open up on your computer, phone, or iPad.]
December 1: Boston - Greatest Hits
We weren't actually familiar with most of the songs on this album. If I recall correctly, it had extensive liner notes. The bonkers cover art was reason enough to buy it!
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