Author: Austin Krueger

Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Toadies

Popular music doesn’t always make for the best music. There are plenty of multi-platinum records out there that quite frankly, aren’t worth listening to. Today’s band has been has been making music since the late ‘80s, and outside of the featured album, haven’t generated a ton of accolades—but they’re a solid group.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Lenny Kravitz

This album has sold 10 million copies worldwide, and charted for nearly three years straight on the Billboard 200 (two of those years were in the top 100 which is remarkable!). The album even won two Grammy Awards for Kravitz. Really, you should give this on a listen and you can get 5 for less than $5 today.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Steve Miller Band

It’s easy to hear Steve Miller Band and think of maybe one or two hits and sort of disregard them within music history. But in reality, these guys are everywhere. They have so many hits (some of which you might not even realize are them) and their music has played such a major role in music, movies, TV and commercials. Fly Like an Eagle today for less than $7.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: R.E.M.

R.E.M. is one of those bands where maybe you feel you don’t know them, or only know the hits, but then you realize how many songs you can sing along to. This definitely isn’t your parent’s version of R.E.M. If you’re accustomed to what you heard on previous records, this is a major departure—and not in a bad way!
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Taylor Swift

Fearless spawned five radio singles and has sold over 20 million copies to date. Not only that, but Swift has the distinction of being the youngest artist in history to have a year’s best-selling record, plus Fearless is the most awarded album in the history of country music. With credentials like that, it's worth taking a listen.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: The Offspring

At a time in music history when things were about to drastically change, Offspring was right there as one of the bands leading the charge. The album didn’t really take off immediately, but in July the single “Come Out And Play” hit major radio. The album would end up peaking at #4 on the Billboard 200 and multiple singles would come in toward the top of the charts for 20 plus weeks.
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Cheap Tunes Tuesday: Wings

When an iconic band decides to call it quits, you would typically think that’s nothing but a negative for music fans. However, sometimes a phoenix arises from the ashes—in this case a group not quite as iconic, but still gets the toes tapping. Today’s band came from The Beatles break up, so obviously it had big shoes to fill.
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