News flash! We are currently on Day Three of Tiny Mix Tape’s “Favorite 100 Albums of 2000-2009″ feature,” which editor Mr. P and his smurfs are unveiling in suspenseful little increments of 20 albums per day. I won’t post my own submission to the list here, but let me just say that recalling the albums that defined the earlier part of the last decade for me was one heck of a head-scratch down memory lane. There was a time, for instance, when my favorite thing to do on Friday afternoons was listen to Is This It? on repeat at my friend Antonia’s parents’ house and then walk past this storefront on East 7th Street where Julian and Fabrizio could invariably be spotted chomping on pizzas and playing Super Mario. Ah, youth!
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