Flipping through my old CD binder, part 2

Flipping Through more of the Past This is the second part in a series where I look through my old CD binder and write about what I find: Part 1 Emergency & I by The Dismemberment Plan (indie ~1999) I am almost certain that I picked this up in 2003 from the local record store near my college. I had somehow just discovered Pitchfork - at that time, still VERY much a small indie music blog out of Chicago - and spent my time at "work" in the student computer labs reading through their "best of" lists from the previous years. (I don't know if computer labs still exist at schools or if student jobs staffing them are still a thing, but man, this was the most relaxed employment situation of my life.) You're going to see a lot of albums on this list that you'd now consider to be Pitchfork-core or what might now be called Rate-Your-Music (RYM) core. This album, by The Dismemberment Plan, is one of my favorites of that era. I called it indie, but I really don't know what this is supposed to be.…