Just a 47-year-old mom of 2 in Northern California. My kids are Monkey Monkey(MM) and Drama Llama (DL). I am married to Monkey Hubby (MH). Happy Mother's Day!
My 3-day-weekend has been both relaxing and productive. 
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I finally decided to take the time to update my MP3 player. Dh might have gotten it for me a couple of years ago, but for a random free MP3 here and there, from Amazon, or a request for dh to rip an old CD for me, he mostly set it up with stuff he thought I might like.
I am a huge music person, but pretty much stopped buying music when I was 17/18. CDs were so expensive, and I was too broke to keep up with the music habit. OF course, dh had a ton of disposable income (no bills) so, the flip side of the coin is he will get me copies of anything I like. But, fast forward about 15 years later, and our library leans heavily to his taste. Our tastes are mostly similar, but we've got some large differences in taste, too.
So, I was disappointed that we didn't seem to have a few albums. But I suppose I will just buy them. I can stomach the cost of MP3s, at least. Things have kind of gone the other way, with time. So, I am making a list of things I would like to purchase for my library. The list isn't too big...
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Anyway, my taste in music is very wide. I know the topic has come up around here, at times. Like, "Who is your favorite band? What are the best songs of all time?" That kind of stuff I just couldn't even begin to narrow it down! So, I figured I'd share a sample of what is on my MP3 player, to give you an idea:
Beach Boys
Ben Harper
Cake
Chris Isaak
Crosby Stills Nash Young
Enya
Guns N' Roses
INXS
Jack Johnson
*Some Folk & Classical musical
Led Zeppelin
Primus
Hope Sandoval
MIRV
Norah Jones
Queen
The Presidents of the USA
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Stray Cats
Tegan & Sara
The Airborne Toxic Event
U2
Violent Femmes
Ween
Weezer
The White Stripes
& yes, I have seen most of these bands, live, in my younger years. When concerts used to be reasonable and "affordable." We went to concerts all the time, in college. A while ago, my dh found a pile of ticket stubs, and we had tickets for like $10 to see a lot of these (lesser known) bands. Boy, things have changed! I only graduated in 1999 (I am not that ancient!)
I remember paying like $50 to see U2 and that was BIG. Like the most expensive concert I remember. These days, I don't know if some of these more local bands would do a concert for less than $50. IT's gotten that pricey. (Though a lot of it is the fees and the service charges, which I guess we have officially boycotted).
Interestingly, our concert-going decreased drastically when we had kids. I don't know if it more of an income or a babysitting thing. I think both are to blame. Of course, now that dh is deaf in one ear, and concerts have gotten so expensive, I don't think it is a habit we will much get into again.
Anyway, it feels good to get the crap off my MP3 player I never listen to, and to fill it up with all my favorite music.
I suppose it is good dh did not have everything I want, because I don't have much room left!
Anyway, that was a nice present to myself, for Mother's Day.
ETA: Funny memory - my dh used to be a bootlegger. Not for profit, but he's got a bunch of bootleg recordings from concerts we have been to, for his own library. His pet peeve is yappy people at concerts. 
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P.S. Also took the time to update my blog color scheme. Similar, but more elegant, I think!
Credit to the following website for a proper color scheme:
I think I am getting the hang of it - took some trial and error.
May 10th, 2010 at 09:28 am 1273480080
your tastes are very similar to DF's and mine. have you heard of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes? We just bought their album Up From Below and LOVE it.
also The Dead Weather is a favourite of mine, it has Jack White (of the white stripes), Alison Mosshart (from the Kills) Dean Fertita (queens of the stone age) and Jack Lawrence (from the Greenhorns).
I know what you mean about ticket prices. DF and I paid $33 to see Ween two years ago, and two months ago The Dead Weather were playing at the same venue, for $86! *sigh*
May 10th, 2010 at 02:58 pm 1273499897
I just peeked and Ween doesn't perform for under $80 (with fees) in the states, currently. I've probably seen them a dozen times for $20-$30. I've got the concert stubs to prove it! (I don't think they have gotten that popular in the last few years?)
Tegan & Sara $95??? Wha???? (This is interesting).
The third thing is that we did move away from a major metropolitan area and don't get as many concerts. When I was looking up some prices, out of curiosity, I did notice some rare lesser known towns had maybe $30 base tickets (generally $20 fee added on for delivery and such). Whereas places like San Francisco seem to have the higher cost tickets - lucky us!
May 10th, 2010 at 03:55 pm 1273503334
I get my music from Amazon, and I highly recommend it to everyone else.
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May 10th, 2010 at 08:11 pm 1273518718
I have a 4 GB Zen Creative Mosaic. Both BM and I have the same one, different colors. I think I rather get a bigger player, eventually. Dh has a huge library and probably doesn't envision putting an entire library on a MP3 player (he picked it out for me), but I think I'd like to upgrade to something I can put everything on. I don't have quite the volume of music! Or I guess, I should say, I can put all my favorite stuff on it... Of course, LM can inherit mine, so it might just work out, in a year or 2.
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May 12th, 2010 at 05:48 am 1273639695
Check out the Hype Machine, a music blog aggregator. Usually when someone blogs about music, you can download a sample to put on the MP3 player. It really lowers the bar on listening to new things.
May 13th, 2010 at 12:54 am 1273708488
I like your taste in music. I've got much the same music, plus some classical.
May 14th, 2010 at 08:10 pm 1273864236
My dh has been really into Pandora lately. I guess you plug in your favorite artists and they cater a "radio station" to your tastes. My dh has been buying new music, which we haven't been doing so much of lately.
(We had some awesome/cheap MP3 service that got shut down, so maybe stopped with the new music for quite a while. But, yes, we have been happy buying music from Amazon lately).