We live in an iTunes nation. It's easy to pull a track down to your pod for under a buck. Bostonist still longs for cover art, liner notes, and that masterwork that is a multi-track collection of songs we call an album. Listed here is our much discussed, unbiased by payola, top 25 albums of 2005. After the jump you'll find where some of us stand individually on the subject of the years best. (Apparently......

If there's one thing that Bostonist loves almost as much as America's Next Top Model, it's The Critique of Pure Reason, a series of local events curated and produced by Stacie Slotnick. She's always bringing fantastic artists to town in interesting venues--anyone remember that fantastic Devendra Banhart/Joanna Newsom/Vetiver show at the Brazilian Cultural Center over the summer? Or the Jens Lekman/The Impossible Shapes/Pants Yell! show from two weeks ago? Tonight at 9:30, head on......