It’s already October! We are falling head-long into the holidays. With a new month comes a new batch of inexpensive CD offerings from Amazon. I try to pick a few of the best from the $5 album list to share with you. A little something for everyone! Here’s this month’s list: Norah Jones, Come Away With Me Huey Lewis and the News, Greatest Hits Coldplay, Parchutes Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend R.E.M, Monster Rilo Kiley, Under the Black Light 99 Must-Have Vivaldi Masterpi

I always look forward to the start of a new month, because Amazon turns over their lineup of deeply discounted mp3 music and Kindle-based ebooks. If I’m honest, I wait and buy most music this way now, and it is starting to be a larger portion of my book buying. So, let me share a couple of suggestions with you for September: MUSIC The first two are great albums on sale for $5.99…but they aren’t a part of the regular, monthly $5 sale, so I’m not sure how long they’ll be offere

Every month Amazon runs their $5 mp3 album special. 100 albums, on sale. I’ve bought a LOT of these $5 albums over the years, because they are such a good deal. (Especially some of the “best of” albums of folks who I want a sample of, but don’t want to collect every song they ever put out…) Often, I’ll tweet or post on Facebook if there is an album or two I am especially interested in, but I thought, why not just do a run down of the monthly offerings here on the blog. (Yes,