My year in music
Via bg5000 / piercethenight, 20 favorite albums of 2008, with the especially outstanding in bold:
Blood Moon - Apes & Androids
Live at Glastonbury - Jay-Z 
The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
The N****r Tape - Nas
The Bake Sale - The Cool Kids
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
Glistening Pleasure - Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head
Slope - Steve Jansen
In The Future - Black Mountain
Gangstagrass - Gangstagrass
HLLLYH - The Mae Shi
Alopecia - Why?
Brain Thrust Mastery - We Are Scientists
Nouns - No Age
Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
Feed The Animals - Girl Talk
Modern Guilt - Beck
Donkey - CSS
We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!
Iterate - Tobiah
Interesting that seven of these albums are totally free to download.
Who Knew?