Magic Number down to 4, Ram's are the same, NIS released

Last night the Cards beat the Pirates and the Astros lost to drop the magic number down to 4. Amazingly neither my wife nor my daughter seems to care. How sad. But the Rams lost to the 49ers on Sunday, looking amazingly as bad as they did last season (Wow, horrible special teams, again? Is anybody surprised?)

Switchfoot's new album, Nothing is Sound was officially released today. Now I must deliberate the difficult decision of which version to get! Get one with a bonus song at Wal-Mart or Target, or just get the one with a bonus DVD for an extra $2. It is pretty annoying having to decide on what version of an album to get. There were already 3 or 4 different Beautiful Letdown versions, some with extra songs or a DVD or with a free album, etc. What ever happened to the idea of just releasing the same old recording? Cheap CD and DVD media makes it too easy to make a billion different versions of everything. Anyway, the album sounds good from the (*cough*) "online" version I was able to get a hold of. I really do plan on getting the real version, but it is a tough decision to figure out which to get!! For example I have the real CD version of Audio Adrenaline's Until My Heart Caves In, but now I found out that the iTunes download version has two extra tracks. I really do not want to spend another $9.99 just to get those two extra tracks (one being just a live version of "Leaving 99"), but you would think someone who purchased a genuine CD could get that extra track from somewhere. Sounds like time to search some BitTorrent engines and fire up LimeWire...

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