Amazon $5 MP3 Deals For May 2011

Posted on May 18, 2011

Well, another month has passed, and so we have a new batch of $5 albums in Amazon’s digital bargain bin.  And this month, the bin’s gotten much larger — there’s more than 1,500 albums on sale!

Which sounds awesome, until you start digging through them and realize that the vast majority are crap.

There’s some decent ones in there, of course — statistically speaking, it’d be surprising if there weren’t a few good records out of a sample of 1,500+ — but generally speaking, this month’s selection is a vast, howling wasteland.  Even the few good albums are a letdown; most of them have been part of a previous month’s selection of discounted albums, so there’s a distinct feeling of déjà vu. And the ones that aren’t good are really, really bad; I’m talking complete-discography-of-New-Kids-On-The-Block bad.

Kind of a disappointment, in other words.  But in spite of all that, we soldier on, so that you don’t have to!

So without further ado, here’s the best of a bad crop:

	We, The Vehicles Maritime
	18 Moby
	The Queen Is Dead The Smiths
	The Suburbs Arcade Fire
	The King of Limbs Radiohead
	Odelay Beck
	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Spoon
	Moon Safari Air
	Mezzanine Massive Attack
	Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem
	Neon Bible Arcade Fire
	Monster R. E. M.
	The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails
	News of the World Queen
	Paul’s Boutique The Beastie Boys
	OK Computer Radiohead
	Magnolia: Soundtrack Aimee Mann, Various Artists
	Holy Diver Dio
	Funeral Arcade Fire
	Appetite For Destruction Guns ‘N Roses
	Gimme Fiction Spoon