I still love the album Final Straw by Snow Patrol, and I play it quite a bit at work. I recently imported their first two CDs (Songs for Polarbears and When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up, never released in the US) from the UK, and I have to say that I'm not nearly as impressed. Had I heard either of those first, I probably wouldn't have given Final Straw a chance. Final Straw is a 5-star CD. The first two are merely okay.

I still haven't been able to make myself want a media library for my music. I still prefer just using Explorer to manage things.

I'm "down to" 30 CDs that I've purchased but not yet listened to (other than, perhaps, a quick taste). It's quite convenient having such a large queue of new music for rainy days. (That's gonna be a lot of days here pretty soon.)

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