DEALS: $5 Magazines & MP3 Albums

Amazon.com offers a variety of $5 MP3 albums each month; the October ones are now up on the site. This month's offerings are particularly good, in my opinion.

A sampling of the 100 albums available for $5 each:

• NOW That's What I Call Music 39 [various artists]
• Sorry for Party Rocking [an Amazon.com exclusive version] by LMFAO
• Volume One by She & Him
• Give Up by the Postal Service
• Rockin' the Suburbs by Ben Folds
• Parachutes by Coldplay
• Demon Days by Gorillaz
• One of the Boys by Katy Perry
• A Fever You Can't Sweat Out by Panic! at The Disco
• Take My Home Tonight [soundtrack]

Additionally, Amazon.com is offering 15 different magazine subscriptions for $5 each now through October 11, 2011. (Warning: Most of the subscriptions are "auto-renewal" subscriptions; if you don't want to keep the subscription beyond a year, make sure you cancel before it renews.)

The selection includes:

• Cosmopolitan
• Popular Mechanics
• Good Housekeeping
• Marie Claire
• HouseBeautiful
• Country Living
• Redbook
• Esquire
• Elle Decor
• Harper's Bazaar
• Elle
• Veranda
• Seventeen
• Car and Driver
• Road & Track
• Town & Country
• Cycle World