A Place Where Even the Old and Used Can Hide

At long last got around to making my birthday tape, even though that day was almost exactly 8 months ago. I figure if you're using semi-archaic technology in the first place, why rush. (Here's last year's, which links to the year before that.)

Just Practicing My Absence

side a
Truckee Brothers "Planning for the 21st Century"
Los Campesinos! "We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed"
Portastatic "Sour Shores"
Ian Hunter "When the World Was Round"
Alejandro Escovedo "Sister Lost Soul"
Elvis Costello "45"
Fountains of Wayne "New Routine"
Okkervil River "Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe"
Matthew Sweet "Time Machine"
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks "Gardenia"
Andrew Bird "Darkmatters"
Magnetic Fields "Courtesans"

side b
New Pornographers "Adventures in Solitude"
Shout Out Louds "Impossible"
Rilo Kiley "Silver Lining"
I'm from Barcelona "The Painter"
The Mekons "Give Me Wine or Money"
Kathleen Edwards "Scared at Night"
Jason Isbell "The Magician"
Bright Eyes "If the Brakeman Turns My Way"
The Mendoza Line "Aspect of an Old Maid"
Colin Meloy "The Engine Driver"
Calexico "Fractured Air (Tornado Watch)"