It’s the last day of the month so it must be time to give advice on how to spend your eMusic downloads. In part two of how to spend your eMusic downloads, you only get 40 downloads because that’s what the monthly allotment is once you are on the regular subscription plan.

We’ll make it easy on you this month by making most of the downloads come from one artist, singer-songwriter Patty Griffin.  If you’ve read Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz, you’ve seen the name before even if you have never heard the music. Frankly, that’s kind of pointless. So, begin your downloads with 1,000 Kisses, just because that has my personal favorite song, Rain. Then take your pick of Children Running Through or Impossible Dream. It’s all good. I wish I could be more specific than that, but there’s just such a quality in her voice and in the lyrics of these songs that draws you in.

Add the tracks on those three and you get only 33 downloads, so we have some work to do here. Let’s spend six tracks on Jeremy Casella’s 10,000 Angels (part one) that was just recently added to the eMusic catalog. That brings us to 39. One track left. Let’s go with something totally off-the-wall. Check out Abbott & Costello’s classic Who’s On First?

And there you have it. Another month, another 40 downloads. Next month’s post on how to spend 40 downloads will be posted on Halloween. I wonder what eMusic has for that particular observance?