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| Holiday Gift Geek Guide 2012: Music |
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Lots of sonic platters of joy are ready to be served up this holiday season, and what better gift to give someone than the universal appeal of music? During this festive time, when credit card debts mount up, layaway plans become way too unmanageable, and the stress of owing money takes charge over one’s soul and wallet as the new year turns, it’s still worth the feeling one gets when one sees someone’s eyes light up when they tear the wrapping paper off a gift, positively effused with sincere delight at its contents. We all still do it, we all get by, we grumble as the new year rolls in, but it’s all worth it; gifts are cool, no doubt, gifts never go out of style, and the end result of giving someone a gift makes it all worth it. Music was no exception this year. There were some great collections for one to gnaw on, collections which run every genre and will turn even the most hard hardened curmudgeon of a Scrooge into the softest teddy bear imaginable, even if it’s only for one holiday. My holiday box set picks are below, this one goes to eleven:
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| Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2012: Books & eBooks |
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Ho, ho, ho, and a bottle of Red Bull. It’s THAT time of the year again and we here at Doom HQ have been busier than migrating elves in Middle Earth cultivating this list of the best books and eBooks of 2012. See below for our Holiday Geek Gift Guide 2012: Books & eBooks. It seems that 2012 was a good year for rock ‘n’ roll memoir/biography/holy-shit-I-lived-through-that/hey-we’re-still-relevant books because we’ve got a fairly long list of ’em for people like your cousin Phil who still wears that bogus KISS jersey he bought in the parking lot at NJ’s Brendan Byrne Arena back in 1982. And there’s lots more geeky awesome gift books in our annual Holiday Geek Gift Guide, including several movie and TV tie-ins; Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years, which is so hot it made it onto this year’s list twice; the Star Trek: The Klingon Bird-Of-Prey Owners’ Workshop Manual, an obvious essential for all Bird-Of-Prey owners; picks for the Star Wars, Firefly, and The Avengers fans in your life; a bunch of urban fantasy selections, and a pick from the dudes over at Wizards of the Coast.
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| Led Zeppelin 2007 Reunion Concert Film To Be Released To Theaters This Fall
The mighty British powerhouse rock and roll group Led Zeppelin is coming to the silver screen on October 13th, reports The Washington Post. A concert film, entitled Celebration Day, showcases the band’s triumphant performance at the 2007 Tribute to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun in England. It was the band’s first headline show in 27 years. Original band members Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, and Jimmy Page along with Jason Bonham, son of original late Zep drummer John Bonham, electrified the crowd that night, with an unexpectedly high standard performance that included archetypical Zep favorites such as “Dazed and Confused,” “Black Dog” and of course the band’s signature song “Stairway to Heaven,” but also included some rare nuggets hardly ever played live like “Ramble On” and “For Your Life.”
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| $3 MP3 Album Deal: Led Zeppelin ‘Physical Graffiti’
This week, Led Zeppelin‘s Physical Graffiti is on sale in MP3 format for only $2.99. The CD is only $9. First of all, let me just say, if you’re a rock fan, you need to own EVERY Led Zeppelin album. That said, seriously, you need to own Physical Graffiti, so please, part ways with the three dollars and get 15 awesome songs for pennies each (no really, it’s like 19 cents a piece when you do the math, and I always do). Now here’s where I tell you some standout tracks, but how do I choose??? Ok, there’s “The Rover,” “Houses Of The Holy,” “Trampled Under Foot,” “Kashmir,” “In The Light,” “The Wanton Song” – see, I’m just going to list all the songs at this rate. Browse all 100 albums on sale this month for only $5 each, as well as several albums on sale this week for only $2.99.
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