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Cheap Albums 6.1.12

A bunch of cheap and amazing albums out there right now. Don't miss these! Some deals will end at any time.

• Green Day: American Idiot ($2.99) | a masterpiece
• M83: Hurry Up, We're Dreaming ($3.99)
• Bon Iver: Bon Iver ($3.99)
• Sigur Ros: Valtari ($4.99)
• Mumford & Sons: Sigh No More ($3.99)
• Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself ($3.99)
• Feist: Metals ($3.99)
• Beach House: Bloom ($4.99)
• Nirvana: Nevermind ($2.99)
• Radiohead: OK Computer ($2.99)
• Cat Power: You Are Free ($2.99)
• Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix ($3.99)
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros: Here ($5)
• Of Monsters and Men: My Head Is An Animal ($4.99)
• U2: Achtung Baby ($2.99)
• Coldplay: Parachutes ($2.99)
• Stone Temple Pilots: Purple ($2.99)
• Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods ($4.99)
• She & Him: Volume 2 ($3.99)
• Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill ($2.99)
• The Decemberists: Her Majesty The Decemberists ($3.99)
• Death Cab For Cutie: Transatlaticism ($3.99)
• The Roots: Things Fall Apart ($3.99)
• Jay-Z: The Blueprint ($2.99)
• A Tribe Called Quest: The Low End Theory ($2.99)
• The Beastie Boys: Check Your Head ($3.99)
• Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream ($2.99)
• Neutral Milk Hotel: In The Aeroplane Over The Sea ($2.99)

$5 Albums | June 2012

$5 albums this June are solid. Several are new, a couple are gems from the last couple years. Enjoy!

• Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light
• The National: High Violet (my #2 of 2010)
• Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
• Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
• Buke and Gass: Riposte
• M. Ward: A Wasteland Companion
• First Aid Kit: The Lion's Roar
• Caribou: Swim (my #23 of 2010)
• Silversun Pickups: Carnavas
• Elliott Smith: Either/Or
• Jonathan Wilson: Gentle Spirit
• Swell Season: Strict Joy
• Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere
• The Decemberists: Picaresque
• Mountain Goats: It's Frightening
• The Mountain Goats: All Eternals Deck
• Yeasayer: Odd Blood
• The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
• The Gaslight Anthem: American Slang
• The Best of Spandau Ballet: Gold | How could I NOT mention this? Don't buy it. I just wanted you to see it. I know, I know. You are welcome! :)
• See All 100 $5 Albums for June

M83 & Dystopian Vision

The wonderful album by M83, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, is only $3.99 as of today (22 tracks!). The first two videos from the album are intense visions about children with powers in dystopian society. Watch the first two videos in order: "Midnight City" and "Reunion." Pretty cool.

Les Miserables Trailer

Anne Hathaway singing "I Dreamed A Dream" in the Les Miserables trailer. Awesome...

Music Tuesday - Memorial Day Edition

Well, I ignored my Music Monday post in order to be with family and friends yesterday. Here's some stuff you need to know about music this week.

STREAMING FREE

• Liars: WIXIW

CHEAP - tons right now, so go get 'em!

• Fort Atlantic: Fort Atlantic ($4.99) - Really dig it
• Beach House: Bloom ($4.99)
• Silversun Pickups: Neck Of The Woods ($4.99)
• Of Monsters and Men: My Head Is An Animal ($2.99)
• Sharon Van Etten: Tramp ($2.99)
• Damien Jurado: Maraqopa ($2.99)
• Father John Misty: Fear Fun ($2.99, J. Tillman of Fleet Foxes)
• Hospitality: Hospitality ($2.99)
• Justin Townes Earle: Nothing's Going To Change The Way You Think About Me Now ($2.99)
• Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society ($2.99)
• The Rolling Stones: Beggars Banquet ($3.99)
• $5 May Albums - only a few days left! 

NEW - some great albums out this week!

• Sigur Rós: Valtari ($4.99)
• Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats ($5)
• The Walkmen: Heaven ($6.99) - surprised how much I like this!
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes: Here ($5)
• Saint Etienne: Words & Music By Saint Etienne

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• Vespers: The Fourth Wall - Wow, I am loving this. So is my family. I catch my kids singing it through the day. It's as if the Avett Brothers were sisters & believers. I've had the first track, "Better Now," on repeat.

Help Crossway - Urgent Need!

I got an email from my friends at Crossway on a great opportunity to get a massive grant. Please help, give, spread the word! From the email..

As you may know, Crossway is a not-for-profit ministry that relies in part on gifts from people like you to accomplish major ministry projects worldwide.
 
We’ve recently been presented with an extraordinary opportunity. Generous donors have offered an all-or-nothing matching grant if we are able to raise $270,000 by May 31^st—just days from now.
 
This grant could not have come at a better time. In God’s kindness, we currently have unprecedented opportunities for creating, translating, and delivering ESV Bible resources for Christians in great need—especially in China, India, and multiple countries in Africa.
 
Will you help us toward meeting this matching grant before the end of May? ...a gift of any amount will help Crossway provide significantly more Bibles and Bible study resources to the church worldwide.
 
We would be grateful for your generous response to this urgent opportunity.

Give here or view the progress toward our goal.

Please support Crossway. Their books have been such a blessing to many and the ESV is my favorite translation.

$2.99 Albums

Some great albums are $2.99 right now. Go get'em!

UPDATE, MORE ADDED! (5/23)

• Vampire Weekend: Contra
• The XX: XX
• U2: Best of 1980-1990

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• Sharon Van Etten: Tramp
• Damien Jurado: Maraqopa
• Father John Misty: Fear Fun (J. Tillman of Fleet Foxes)
• Of Monsters And Men: My Head Is An Animal
• Hospitality: Hospitality
• Justin Townes Earle: Nothing's Going To Change The Way You Think About Me Now
• Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society

Francis Schaeffer & L'Abri

Over the last couple of weeks I've been enjoying working out with Jerram Barrs audio from his two classes on Francis Schaeffer (Early Years & Later Years) at Covenant Seminary. Specifically, I've been listening by streaming through the Covenant Seminary Worldwide Classroom app on my Android phone.

I've thought for several years that one of the best things that could happen in American churches is that we would take a more L'Abri-like approach to our mission. You can read the Schaeffer's ministry at L'Abri in The Tapestry (out of print, but I just picked one up used but in perfect condition for $25) and L'Abri. I think churches like Soma Communities are doing this kind of thing better than most.

Whether or not you pick up the books, please go pick up these very helpful, free audio classes from Jerram Barrs are hard to beat as resources in thinking about mission, apologetics, living missionally, hospitality, etc. Download Francis Schaeffer: The Early Years and Francis Schaeffer: The Later Years now. You can get them through iTunes, or stream them over the Worldwide Classroom. While you are at it, find more great stuff from Jerram Barrs including his books The Heart of Evangelism and Learning Evangelism From Jesus.

Music Monday 5.21.12

STREAMING FREE

• Sigur Ros: Valtari
• Regina Spektor: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes: Here
• JBM: Stray Ashes
• The Brothers Comatose: Respect The Van
• Saint Etienne: Words & Music By Saint Etienne
• The Walkmen: Heaven

CHEAP

• Beach House: Bloom ($4.99)
• Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods ($4.99)
• Damien Jurado: Maraqopa ($4.99)
• Patrick Watson: Adventures In Your Own Backyard ($5)
• Of Monsters And Men: My Head Is An Animal ($4.99)
• Alabama Shakes: Boys & Girls ($5)
• Spiritualized: Sweet Heart Sweet Light ($4.99)
• May $5 Albums

BURNING UP MY iPOD

• American Gospel: Tall Tales Vol. 1
• Silversun Pickups: Neck of the Woods ($4.99!)
• The Welcome Wagon: Welcome to the Welcome Wagon (free)

Robin Gibb dies at 62...

The Welcome Wagon FREE EP

Get new The Welcome Wagon EP for free, or leave the artist a tip! If you don't have their first album, Welcome to the Welcome Wagon, you are missing something great. Get the free EP or try out samples below.