TMI - But It's for a Good Cause

I used to be a music junkie. I blame my mom. She was young, hip, and had an awesome vinyl collection. She loved everything from Gospel, to Blues, to Rock, to ... I don't know, a pretty broad spectrum, okay? Naturally, as soon as I got my first CD player, I had to join a CD club. I remember getting Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits and some Bon Jovi CD. Yeah, I'm old ... but not Simon and Garfunkel old.

I used to buy CDs regularly. I was lucky enough to find a used CD place close to my digs when I first moved to Chicago. Also, I had a good friend who was a DJ in his other life. He burned lots of tunes for me.

Then came The Targo. My husband, I adore him, is very very frugal. He thinks buying CDs is a total waste of money. I've made several lists of tunes for him to download for me, then our iPod got virused or something. So, I'm sans mp3/digital music. *woe*

Now that I'm back at work, I'm spending more time than I imagined a lot of time pumping. I need something to occupy myself and thought about getting the iPod up and running again. The problem is that I haven't listened to the radio (besides talk radio, sports, news) in a long time. I feel that I am all sorts of un-hip.

Helps me! Pleeeeeeeeeease! Give me some recommendations: What's hip where you live? Any local sounds? What's playing on your iPod? I really listen to just about everything. (Okay, I'm not so into songs where the swear words outnumber the drumbeats ... but other than that, about anything.)