Comments on: There Are Still People Out There Who Will Pay Two Bucks For A Soundgarden Album

By: How do I say this ... THROWDINI!

How do I say this ... THROWDINI! — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:06:20 +0000

@sicksteanein: Agreed. Plus, I always thought the name of the album was awesome. I can't really put into words why, it just is.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:21:19 +0000

On a sidenote, whither Kim Thayil? The guy was a huge part of what made Soundgarden great, and he’s hardly been heard of in ten years!

By: sicksteanein

sicksteanein — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:19:25 +0000

Good to see that hopefully some of Death Cab’s newer fans are getting their hands on their best album legally.

By: spankyjoe

spankyjoe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:43:27 +0000

@cassidy2099:

I used re-buy that album every 2-3 years just so I could get a copy that doesn't skip all over the place during "Like Suicide." Finally found an old vinyl copy to solve the problem.

By: cassidy2099

cassidy2099 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:57:59 +0000

Two bucks for one of the best albums ever? Sounds like a no brainer to me.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:38:48 +0000

Very interesting stuff. Thanks for that.

Let me just preempt this chart-related question now: None of these albums would be eligible to reappear on the Billboard 200, because they're all more than two years old and hence fail to meet BB's criteria for "current" albums.

However, tracking old albums like this is what the Top Catalog Albums chart is for -- so conceivably a big one-week Amazon seller could appear there. But an old record needs to sell somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000ish copies to make the lower rungs of the top 40 list Billboard publishes. None of the above appears to qualify, unless these same titles also sold another grand or two in physical copies the same week.