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One thing that most online music stores seem to be missing is a wish list for music you are interested in but don’t intend on buying immediately (likely to encourage impulse buying). I just recently found that you can use the Amazon Universal Wish List bookmarklet, (that allows you to add products from any website to your Amazon Wish List) also works with the Amazon MP3 store.

I picked-out all the tracks I’m missing from the Smashing Pumpkins: Rarities & B-Sides via Amazon MP3. The only reason I haven’t grabbed them all yet is due to the fact that there are 85 tracks (that cost $0.99 each).

Based on the 30 sec previews for each song I’ve marked the songs of most interest with ”★” and 2nd most interest with “✩” so that I can slowly buy all the best songs.

1. 11. Bullet Train To Osaka [Explicit]
2. 12. Terrapin [Explicit]
3. 16. Siamese Dream (Explicit)
4. 18. Dancing In The Moonlight [Explicit]
5. 24. French Movie Theme [Explicit]
6. 25. Purr Snickety [Explicit]
7. 26. Not Worth Asking [Explicit]
8. 27. Honeyspider II [Explicit]
9. 28. Infinite Sadness (Instrumental) [Explicit]
10. 29. 1979 (Vocal Mix) [Explicit]
11. 30. 1979 (Instrumental Mix) [Explicit]
12. 32. …said sadly [Explicit]
13. 33. You’re All I’ve Got Tonight [Explicit]
14. 34. Clones (We’re All) [Explicit] ★
15. 35. A Night Like This [Explicit]
16. 36. Destination Unknown [Explicit]
17. 37. Dreaming [Explicit]
18. 39. Ugly [Explicit] ★
19. 40. The Boy [Explicit]
20. 41. Cherry [Explicit] ★
21. 42. Set The Ray To Jerry [Explicit] ★
22. 44. God (Explicit) ✩
23. 45. Mouths Of Babes [Explicit] ★
24. 46. Tribute To Johnny (Instrumental) [Explicit]
25. 47. Marquis In Spades (Explicit)
26. 48. Pennies [Explicit] ✩
27. 49. Pastichio Medley [23:00] [Explicit]
28. 51. Meladori Magpie [Explicit]
29. 52. Rotten Apples [Explicit]
30. 53. Medellia Of The Gray Skies [Explicit]
31. 54. Jupiter’s Lament [Explicit]
32. 55. Blank [Explicit]
33. 56. Tonite Reprise [Explicit] ✩
34. 58. The Last Song [Explicit]
35. 59. The Aeroplane Flies High (turns left, looks right) [8:36] [Explicit]
36. 60. Transformer (Explicit) ✩
37. 61. The Bells [Explicit]
38. 62. My Blue Heaven [Explicit]
39. 63. Speed Kills [Explicit] ★
40. 64. Hope (instrumental) [Explicit]
41. 65. Blissed and Gone [Explicit] ★
42. 66. Apathy’s Last Kiss [Explicit]
43. 67. Mayonaise (Acoustic) [Explicit] ✩
44. 68. Eye [Explicit] ★
45. 70. The Aeroplane Flies High [7:59] [Explicit]
46. 71. Because You Are [Explicit]
47. 73. Believe [Explicit]
48. 74. My Mistake [Explicit]
49. 75. Here’s To The Atom Bomb [Explicit]
50. 76. Sparrow [Explicit]
51. 77. Waiting [Explicit]
52. 78. Saturnine [Explicit] ✩
53. 79. Rock On [Explicit]
54. 80. Winterlong [Explicit]
55. 81. Soot and Stars [Explicit]
56. 83. Czarina [Explicit]
57. 84. Once In A While [Explicit]
58. 86. Summer [Explicit]
59. 87. Perfect (Nellee Hooper Mix) [Explicit]
60. 88. Perfect (Nellee Hooper Instrumental) [Explicit]
61. 89. Perfect [7:00] (Perfecto Mix) [Explicit]
62. 90. Perfect [7:04] (Perfecto Dub) [Explicit]
63. 91. Perfect (Elektro Breakbeat Mix) [Explicit]
64. 92. Daphne Descends (Kerry B. Mix) [Explicit]
65. 93. Christmastime [Explicit]
66. 94. Drown [Explicit]
67. 95. Glynis [Explicit]
68. 96. Sad Peter Pan [Explicit] ✩
69. 99. The Ethers Tragic [Explicit]
70. 100. The Guns of Love Disastrous [Explicit]
71. 101. Sinfony [Explicit]
72. 102. Quiet (Live In Atlanta, 1993) [Explicit]
73. 103. Disarm (Live on English TV, 1993) [Explicit]
74. 104. Cherub Rock (Acoustic) (Live on MTV Europe, 1993) [Explicit]
75. 105. Today (Live in Chicago, 1993) [Explicit]
76. 106. Bugg Superstar [Explicit]
77. 107. I Am One [7:53] (Live in Barcelona, 1993) (Explicit)
78. 108. Pulseczar [Explicit]
79. 109. Soma (Live in London, 1994) [Explicit]
80. 110. Slunk (Live on Japanese TV, 1992) (Explicit)
81. 111. Geek U.S.A. (Live on German TV, 1993) [Explicit]
82. 112. Mayonaise (Acoustic) (Live Everywhere, 1988-1994) [Explicit]
83. 113. Why Am I So Tired [15:13] [Explicit]
84. 114. Never Let Me Down Again [Explicit] ✩

Now that I have better headphones, speakers, more hard drive space, and hate DRM; the low quality (128 kbps) DRM protected songs that I had bought on iTunes years ago, now just aren’t cutting it.

At least you have the option to upgrade to the tracks they do have on “iTunes Plus” for a small fee. However most of iTunes’ catalogue is still only available as low quality DRM’ed tracks… Yuck!

I had already gotten rid of the DRM but audio quality is noticeably lacking after listening to 256 kbps tracks from Amazon MP3. I’ve read 256 kbps isn’t distinguishable from CD quality to the human ear.

So now I’m “upgrading” my favorite albums by re-purchasing them on Amazon MP3 and buying CDs (trying to stick to used) to rip at 256 kbps.

This is an example of why, (in a perfect world) you should be able to buy the personal use rights to the media and be able to download the song whenever you wanted in whatever format you wanted for free.