This one hurts
Proving itself to be a stellar city to live in yet again, Pittsburgh has come up with another way to impress me. This time, the special surprise was delivered via some enterprising individuals who took it upon themselves to enter our apartment unannounced (while we were both away, of course) via the transom window above our door (now drilled shut, you punks).
The items liberated in this little case of B & E included our digital camera, a flash, some other camera equipment, a backpack with a bike lock inside of it, a piggy bank (with a whopping $8.23 cents in it, you desperate crack junkies), and a whole bunch of CD’s.
We have renter’s insurance, so it’s not the money that’s got me bothered. What I’m mostly miffed about is the loss of some great music. It’s not like I can’t go out and replace most of the discs I lost, but accumulating them has been a labor of love for many years. Many concerts have been attended and many hours have been lost to the hypnotic “click-click-click” of used CD shopping. And what was taken doesn’t really seem like it would be something that would be a hot item on the street corners of Pittsburgh. In a place with better musical tastes, maybe it would be. I’m half-expecting the CD’s to turn up on our doorstep with a note attached that says something like “You can have these back. Your taste in music sucks.” And I wouldn’t be offended in the least.
Just for fun, I’m including the list of discs that I submitted to the insurance company and the cops (that’s right – the cops, you low-life bottom-feeders). I do hope that whoever ends up with these albums appreciates them as much as I did.
Band | Album |
---|---|
Accident Clearinghouse | Volume II: Absolute Collision |
By Blood and Marriage | |
Written in Rope | |
Full Moon Night | |
Air | Moon Safari |
The Virgin Suicides Soundtrack | |
Belle and Sebastian | Tigermilk |
If You’re Feeling Sinister | |
The Boy With the Arab Strap | |
Black Crowes, The | Shake Your Money Maker |
Southern Harmony & Musical Companion | |
Amorica | |
Brenda Weiler | Trickle Down |
Crazy Happy | |
Fly Me Back | |
Costello, Elvis | My Aim is True |
Mighty Like a Rose | |
Brutal Youth | |
Costello, Elvis and Burt Bacharach | Painted from Memory |
Costello, Elvis and the Attractions | This Year’s Model |
Blood and Chocolate | |
Imperial Bedroom | |
The Very Best of | |
Faux Jean | Dead Lover |
Gin Blossoms | New Miserable Experience |
Golden Smog | Weird Tales |
Grand Champeen | Battle Cry for Help |
The One That Brought You | |
Holly, Buddy | From the Original Master Tapes |
Jamiroquai | Traveling Without Moving |
Jayhawks, The | Blue Earth |
Waiting for the Sun (single) | |
Hollywood Town Hall | |
Tomorrow the Green Grass | |
Sound of Lies | |
Smile | |
Rainy Day Music | |
Jesus and Mary Chain, The | Automatic |
Honey’s Dead | |
Stoned and Dethroned | |
Hate Rock N’ Roll | |
Kid Dakota | So Pretty (EP) |
So Pretty | |
Manplanet | Skylab EP |
Mazzy Star | So Tonight That I May See |
McKee, Maria | Life is Sweet |
Mike Brady Trio, The | Cold Night |
As Long As the Day Is Long | |
Morrison, Van | Moondance |
My Bloody Valentine | Isn’t Anything |
Loveless | |
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | The Good Son |
Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral |
The March of the Pigs (single) | |
Further Down the Spiral | |
O'er the Ramparts | Waves of Static |
Ol’ Yeller | Ol’ Yeller |
Old 97’s | Satellite Rides |
Too Far to Care | |
Petshop Boys | Discography: The Complete Singles Collection |
Poe, David | David Poe |
Police, The | Live! |
Every Breath You Take - The Classics | |
Replacements, The | Stink |
Tim | |
Don’t Tell a Soul | |
Revolver Modele | Revolver |
Robertson, Robbie | Contact from the Underworld of Redboy |
Sid Hillman Quartet, The | Volume Two |
Strokes, The | Is This It |
Sugar | File Under: Easy Listening |
Toploader | Onka’s Big Moka |
Various Artists | Apartment Music |
The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers | |
Vicious Vicious | Blood and Clover |
Waits, Tom | Beautiful Maladies |
Young Dubliners, The | Rocky Road |