I just passed 5000 songs in my iTunes collection, though that number includes a few duplicates, a couple of misplaced podcasts, and some CD tracks, from live performances and from things like the Beatles anthology, that are spoken intros or interview bits or whatnot. Still, a nice milestone to reach. I've got a ton of new music taken from recent CD acquisitions (and in a couple of cases, already-owned CDs that I'd just not gotten around to ripping before), a few iTunes purchases, and a bunch of free downloads, mostly but not entirely from Amazon. This list is taken from a sample of the more recent stuff.

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Tori Amos
2. Margaret in Captivity - The Decemberists
3. Somebody's Been Fooling #1 - Big Joe Williams
4. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
5. People Got A Lot Of Nerve - Neko Case
6. Ruben James - The Kingston Trio
7. Toast The Earth With ExxonMobil - Austin Lounge Lizards
8. It's Tricky - Run DMC
9. Sooner - My Morning Jacket
10. Emancipted Minor - Ani DiFranco

And I've still got a lot of stuff that has been added to the collection but has not yet had a turn on the iPod Mini. Seems like the MP3 music takes up more space than stuff ripped from CD - in the past, when all I had in the collection was CDs, I could fit over 400 songs on there. Now, it tops out around 300. At least it makes me change things out regularly. What are you listening to this week?