here is my change log for may 13, 2003, meaning these are the records i picked up over the 2002-2003 school year.

Artist	Release	Year	Type	Label	Catalog #
aix em klemm	aix em klemm	2001	LP	kranky	44
Aphex Twin	...i care because you do	1995	LP	Sire/warp	61790
Belle and sebastien	dog on wheels	1997	EP	jeepster	1
David Bowie	heathen	2002	LP	columbia	86630
kronos quartet	pieces of africa	1991	EP	warner/nonesuch	79275
meat beat manifesto	actual sounds & voices	1998	LP	nothing/interscope	90279
pearl jam	riot act	2002	LP	Epic/Sony	86825
Peter Gabriel	birdy	1985	LP	geffen	24070
	up	2002	LP	real world	??
	rabbit proof fence	2002	LP	real world	??
Pink Floyd	obscured by clouds	1972	LP	EMI	35609
portishead	dummy	1994	LP	go!	28553
REM	document	1987	LP	IRs	22059
	reveal	2001	LP	IRs	47946
sarah brightman	eden	1998	LP	angel/emi	56769
system of a down	system of a down	1998	LP	american/sony	68924
the cure	the head on the door	1985	LP	elektra	60435
	wish	1992	LP	elektra	61309
	wild mood swings	1996	LP	elektra	61744
	bloodflowers	2000	LP	elektra	62236

as you can see, i wasn't very interested in the contemporary music of the time. i only picked up new records by bowie, gabriel, pearl jam & rem - all older acts. i was afraid of that rem disc; i actually liked up a lot, it's as good as the band's best, but reveal went in a sappy direction. i suspect wayne coyne loved it; it kind of mapped out the flaming lips' direction in the 00s. but, rem doesn't make sense to me without the tension. i no doubt picked up document when i realized i only had it on an ancient, dubbed cassette.

that was somewhat of an uncharacteristic period for me, though, in that i wasn't getting very much alone time, and i was spending lots of money on things i don't normally spend money on.

i was disappointed by the pearl jam disc, but definitely enjoyed the gabriel discs - especially long walk home. i must have picked up birdy at the same time. in addition to having grown up with both gabriel and gabriel-period genesis, i was a big fan of the passion soundtrack at the time.

that wasn't my first try at the cure, but it was the try that finally stuck. my dad actually had a copy of wish that his brother gave him; dad thought the cure were too weird for him, and i found them a tad bit opaque at that age. i remember listening to the tapes and and not being able to pull any shape out of them. my tastes had definitely built up in that direction by late 2002, so it made sense to try and again, and i was able to make sense of it then in ways i wasn't when i was younger. it was the '85 release i liked the best.

i believe that the floyd cd was a christmas present.

some of them were things i had picked up at friends' houses, notably the portishead and system of a down. the balance would have been random pawn shop pick ups...some lasted longer than others...